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Wellness, Yoga, and Lifestyle with 36 years experience. I coach teachers to Yoga Success. Also Wellness Coach and Yoga Teacher. KikiFlynn.com

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03/08/2025

Mysore bestowed treasure troves of wisdom with incomparable teachers for all seekers. Dearest Professor Narasimhan is a great light that will shine on forever. Namaskarah dear teacher.

31/07/2025

Mysore is a rare and treasured royal city of Sanskrit learning and yoga heritage. Join Dr. M A Jayashree and I for a transformational and resonant immersion in Sanskrit and uncover your true nature and luminous self.

04/06/2025

Patanjali assures us that wisdom is our birthright, releasing from activity, we can truly know ourself and immerse in divinity. Come meet me in Barcelona and celebrate the gift of yoga in sound and being. I am grateful to Santiago for inviting me.

26/04/2025

In a time before there were yoga clothes... We mostly wore dance tights, Capezio or Danskin and maybe even leotards or often enough tank tops out of a $2 sale bin from Canal Street. But at Jivamukti in downtown NY we were quite fond of crushed velvet leggings. Usually also on sale, but a good deal more than $2 and at least $12, from the punk boutique Trash and Vaudeville on Saint Marks Place.
This is in my first yoga shala in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard near Sunset Junction in Silverlake. These days some people ask me, what was your business plan? The rent was $500 a month! I didn't need a plan. We made rent every month and the rest is history.
In those early days, 1996 and 1997, people walked in and took class and signed up for a month. Maybe after a few weeks, even a year, they might ask, what kind of yoga is this? Ashtanga Yoga, I'd answer, Mysore style.

20/03/2025

Thank you for a wonderful photo shoot 📸

05/02/2025

And so it was that we arrived for a led class at the Shala to find the room hung with lights and crowded with light stands and began our practice under the guidance and instruction of our teacher Sri K Pattabhi Jois and under the all seeing white Cannon pro lens of Graeme Montgomery. All this is beautifully captured in the book Mysore Style. And so here we are Dear David Roche and I in the asana one hopes to be least photographed in let alone memorialized. Be that as it may, then let it be alongside David Roche an elegant, witty and legendary practitioner and teacher. And so today, we have the news another fine yogi has left us. My drshti is at my nose and his to brumadhye which I believe places David in the realm with the celestials.

18/01/2025

Join me at Citravana Resort near Mysuru, or join online, on Tuesday at 12 noon. For more details contact What did the ancients understand that allowed them to know by memory dozens, even hundreds of sacred texts? It is called Sruti Parampara. Find out how this can change your life. 🙏🏽 Pranams to Dr. Jayashree. This presentation is dedicated to her.

12/11/2024

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |
Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |
Mrityor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

14/09/2024

Who remembers this cheeky young bright boy? Now running his own yoga and vedanta center with his advanced degrees in Sanskrit and Vedanta with a fine family and traveling the world. Ajay lived near the hotel the foreign students stayed and his charisma and curiosity connected us year after year. In India our lives were blessed by so many: young and old, bright eyed, kind, and wise. Did you know in Mysore I am 6 feet tall? Or so it seems here with lovely Sandhya at her lunch cafe with some of the ten ladies she employs. They are serious in this, photo but moments before they were hugging me and pinching my cheeks, laughing and mussing my sari and holding my hands. I must go buy some nice cloth hankies to tuck in my sari and dab at tears of joy. Stop crying, they told me, wiping my cheeks and skipping round.

13/09/2024

At 9:30am the overhead sun on a treeless path scorched like 10,000 suns. I step into Indra Cafe for a fresh lime soda to let off some steam. Many of my favorite places are ones I went to on my first visit to Mysore. had selected these charming and lovely oasis on her previous trips and taken me there and initiated me. Today, our favorite tailor who made our gingham nighties, my first sari blouse and petticoat, and a chic shirt for Lisa with a nice placket front, was gone, a whole section of shops razed down to rubble behind a high fence. Next year I venture it will be a shopping mall. Somewhere in the memory crypt beneath stones lives a tailor who urged us to see a new hit filmi starring up-and-comer Aishwarya Rai. The film was called Jeans. The tag line was "zero percent cotton, 100% love".

08/07/2024

Rolf travelled to India overland from Germany on the Hippie Trail over the ancient Silk Road. He told wonderful stories of those days and the characters he met.
And then he adventured into yoga and made his home in India. And became a friend to so many of us and great source of knowledge.
With the respect be showed his teachers and his dedication to his practices, Rolf set a precedent and inspired others to do the same.
And now his travels continue. Happy journey Rolf.

02/07/2024

This is Brompton Oratory in London where my family went to mass each Sunday and where my sister .vintage.editor was baptized. Reading and translating latin inscriptions was a good foundation for studying Sanskrit some 20 years on. How did it make sense to me that nouns were masculine, feminine and neuter with many declensions and changes in endings? Well nightly I had smudged my latin homework in tears of frustration but chin up and carry on. And very grateful for the opportunity.

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