Vira Bhava Yoga

Vira Bhava Yoga Vira Bhava Yoga was born out of a deep desire to gather a community of courageous and powerful yogis

Vira Bhava Yoga is a unique approach to Yoga Teacher Training that supports the growth of it's participants to become the highest caliber of student while providing the tools, resources, experiences, and skills necessary to become excellent teachers and visionaries in their local yoga communities. While encouraging a strong sense of individual growth and understanding, Vira Bhava Yoga works to cultivate everyone's unique gifts as blossoming teachers, helping them to find their own individual voice of experience that they can share with their own students. All of this is offered from a firm foundation of the philosophical principles of Yoga through which we mature and inspire our own practice and growth as teachers.

11/18/2025

Just another Asana Lab đź’•

11/14/2025

True stewardship of tradition isn’t control, it’s care.

When knowledge is carried through thousands of embodied experiences, it stops belonging to anyone, it belongs to the tradition itself.

Ritual isn’t a hobby or something to take lightly.
It’s a relationship.
And relationships require respect and care.

Stewardship is necessary to preserve the integrity of tradition.

🎥 Tova on Stewardship vs Gatekeeping

11/07/2025

Is asana yoga?

If yoga is a lived experience or wholeness, isn’t the physical experience part of the whole?

At Vira Bhava Yoga, our programs have always leaned deeply into the subtle and energetic aspects of practice.

But over time, that intense focus began to cast a shadow.

A quiet disdain for asana itself was building. Some even went so far as to disparage the physical practice, outwardly refusing to teach it altogether.

That’s an interesting paradox, isn’t it?

Why pay a yoga school to learn how to teach asana when that school doesn’t see or reflect the value in teaching asana?

The truth is, you can’t teach yoga.

Yoga is not a subject, it’s a relationship.

It unfolds within you through devotion, awareness, and discipline.

You can teach asana. You can teach energetics. You can teach the texts.

But when we dismiss the physical body as irrelevant, or worse, as “not yoga” we risk alienating the very people who come to yoga seeking to remember their inherent wholeness.

So what is the real value of asana?

How do we reconcile the knowing that the ancient texts barely mention it?

It is true in a traditional sense asana isn’t the experience of classical yoga.

But perhaps it’s still the most accessible doorway to it.
And maybe honoring that doorway, without worshiping it, is part of what it means to live yoga fully.

We are reflecting on Asana as a gateway. It gives us the opportunity to explore and develop discipline in the physical and then go deeper, giving us the foundation for exploring the energetic aspects of ourselves. This then grounds the emotional and spiritual experience, allowing us to mature into a lived practice of yoga. And yes, this evolution is beyond asana.

11/06/2025

How often are swimming against the current?

How often do you feel like you are fighting an uphill battle?

Where are you grasping and striving instead of surrendering and flowing?

Sometimes, the uphill battle is inevitable and part of the journey, and sometimes we are simply heading in a direction that was never meant for us.

How do you discern between the two?

What is the gray area in between those two realities?

11/06/2025

Tea & Ta**ra - November 🥰

This month we discussed discernment, intuition, failure, slowing down and making space.

Join us the first Sunday of the month for these community conversations. Join our mailing list for invitations to this gathering and other community offerings.

11/05/2025

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to learn and practice with Swathy, you know how wonderful she is 🥰

11/04/2025

Fall is a time to observe and process.

Do you take the time in the fall season to observe, process and understand what flourished and what withered away?

Are you taking accounting for your time, energy and resources spent?

Do you reflect back on your work, to assimilate and process that information and build memory and wisdom?

Are you ensuring you have the resources needed to get you through the season of stillness and deep rest?

Or do you rush right out of Summer mode to Holiday mode?

Meet Carolyn!A teacher and designer devoted to the practice of beauty. Carolyn explores the intersection of aesthetics a...
10/23/2025

Meet Carolyn!
A teacher and designer devoted to the practice of beauty.

Carolyn explores the intersection of aesthetics and presence, bringing a unique lens to the way we experience yoga at VBY.

She reminds us that beauty is a practice! One that invites us to notice, refine, and relate more intentionally with the world around us.

Keep a look out for classes and workshops with Carolyn next year!

Meet Swathy! Some teachers instruct. Swathy embodies.Born in India and rooted in the living lineage of Yoga & Ta**ra, sh...
10/16/2025

Meet Swathy!

Some teachers instruct. Swathy embodies.

Born in India and rooted in the living lineage of Yoga & Ta**ra, she carries wisdom not as concept, but as relationship with Self, with community, with the Sacred.

When wisdom unfolds through relationship, practice becomes life itself.

This is Swathy’s teaching, and the heart of our work at Vira Bhava Yoga! we’re not here to become someone new, but to remember who we already are.

From the East, she brings devotion and depth.
From the West, courage and individuality.
Together, she offers a practice that meets you right where you are and is rooted in tradition and lineage.

Applications are now open for our January 2026 Yoga & Ta**ra Teacher Training programs.

Come walk this path of remembrance with Swathy ❤️‍🔥

**ra

I used to love this quote, now I understand it. After some time on this path, the cave looks like sameness.The same move...
10/14/2025

I used to love this quote, now I understand it.

After some time on this path, the cave looks like sameness.

The same movements.
The same time of day.
The same rituals and pattern.

And on some days, the same question: Why am I doing this?

What we’ve come to understand is that this is the cave.

Not the exciting beginning.

Not the next big breakthrough.

The part where we want to walk away. Where we yearn for the next big thing.

The part where it all feels flat.

This is the cave and when we keep showing up, not to be changed, transformed or inspired but simply to return, something starts to shift.

It’s subtle. So damn subtle!

It’s not shiny or loud.

BUT IT’S REAL

The treasure isn’t something new.

It’s INTIMACY!

Intimacy with our bodies.
With our minds.
Intimacy with our energy.
Intimacy with the rhythm itself.

But underneath that surface of that very rhythm, that same repetition, under the dust of routine and the ache of discipline, something subtle starts to emerge.

Not excitement. Not novelty.
Something quieter.
Something deeper.

The treasure is intimacy and it’s still waiting, not for you to enter, but for you to stay awhile. To sit. To be.

This is the kind of relationship we’re building in our trainings.

Not performative, not perfect.

Just honest, lived practice with tools that help us stay connected, even in the dry seasons.

This is where the deeper work begins.

Join us if you’re ready to walk back in.

đź”— www.virabhavayoga.com
**rayoga

🌲 Meet Tova 🌲Ritualist. Wild Woman. Animist. Teacher. Performer. Storyteller. Seeker.She doesn’t lead from the front, sh...
10/09/2025

🌲 Meet Tova 🌲

Ritualist. Wild Woman. Animist. Teacher. Performer. Storyteller. Seeker.

She doesn’t lead from the front, she walks beside you. She meets you where you are, with a soft front and a strong back. She invites you to be curios about it all.

If you're ready to remember your wildness…
To learn from a teacher who is rooted, raw, and reverent…
To explore the edges where expansion and contraction alchemize...

Then come meet Tova! She's bringing some truly radical courses and classes in 2026 and will be a featured instructor in our upcoming YTT's!

She’s not here to save you.
She’s here to walk you home.

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