Sumona Apsara Parii) initiated her love of yoga with her Bharata Natyam (South-Indian Classical Dance) studies, training, and performances, which she started in 1989. It is is one of the oldest dance forms in India--more than 4000 years old. It has various sculpture-like poses and postures that come from yoga; ntricate footwork, meaningful hand gestures and facial expressions, especially the eyes.
All this conveys the myriads of characters revealed by the dancer, from many Indian mythological stories. Hence, yoga has been a part of Sumona's life since her childhood to a large extend. In March 2010, she received her official 200-Hour Yoga Teaching Certificate from Cloud Nine Yoga in Huntington Beach, California. She has several years of in-depth experience teaching Bollywood Dance Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga at Cloud Nine Yoga in Huntington Beach, California, at Shaktibox in Los Angeles, California. at the Gurukul in Norwalk, California, as well at Buddha B Yoga in Washington, DC. At ShivShakti Yoga , Sumona incorpates her passion of Indian dance, meditation, pranayama (deep breath-work), mudras (hand gestures) into her yoga asana (postures) teachings. She uses all kinds of international music during her classes, including soft yoga, Indian classical and/or semi-classical, Bollywood and chakra (energy centers in the human body) sound music. She gives personal attention to each student, and teaches with great love, passion, patience, compassion. as well sincerity in a loving, serene, as well safe environment.
