BILL MAHONY

William K. Mahony, PhD, is known in yoga communities across the continents for his warm, lively and compassionate teaching that is accessible to contemporary yoga students at all levels as well as to those interested in deepening their spiritual lives in other ways.

In his workshops, seminars and retreats, Bill integrates his deep knowledge of yoga philosophy with insights refined over nearly five decades of his own yogic practice. He shares with participants the expansive and transforming wisdom he finds in the splendid texts he studies, and he guides participants in ways they can fruitfully apply these perspectives in their own lives.

Bill’s teaching style is oriented toward sustained group discussion and includes periods of meditation. He enjoys integrating his discussions of philosophy with asana practice led by local yoga teachers, if they wish to do so.

Bill often bases his teaching on important Sanskrit texts that can inspire contemporary yogis in their larger lives. With his guidance, participants in spiritual retreats, workshops and seminars reflect together on teachings from various spiritual and philosophical traditions from India, primarily the Vedānta, Tantra, and Bhakti traditions. He encourages participants to study in a contemplative manner those teachings as they are presented in the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Yoga Sūtra, the Pratyabhijñā Hridaya, the Vijñāna Bhairava, Shiva Sūtra, Shrīmad Bhagavatam, the Bhakti Sūtra and many others.

Whether you are new to the contemplative study of yoga philosophy or have pursued this interest and undertaken this practice for some time, Bill warmly invites you to join him and others in these seminars, workshop and retreat settings, when all participants together explore and immerse themselves in ways of a life-affirming yogic life.

Bill earned academic degrees from Williams College, Yale University and the University of Chicago and is a professor of Religious Studies at Davidson College, one of the premier institutions of higher learning in the United States. As a professor, he teaches courses on contemplative and devotional sensibilities of religions originating in India, with an emphasis on the philosophies of yoga. The recipient of a number of prestigious teaching awards and research fellowships, he travels to India frequently and has lived in contemplative settings for extended periods of time.

Bill’s most recent book, Exquisite Love: Reflections on the Spiritual Life based on Nārada’s Bhakti Sūtra consists of Bill’s extended commentaries on a 10th century Sanskrit text on spiritual love. In an intellectually clear and emotionally engaging way he reflects at length on the experience, cultivation and refinement of increasingly higher levels of devotional sentiments in our own contemporary yogic lives. Bill is often asked to lead retreats, workshops and seminars based on the understandings he presents in this book. The second edition is published by Sarvabhāva Press. For more information, visit the books page or order the second edition on Amazon.

Bill earned academic degrees from Williams College, Yale University, and the University of Chicago and is a professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Davidson College, one of the premier institutions of higher learning in the United States.

As a professor, Bill has taught many thousand students over his forty-year career in courses on contemplative and devotional sensibilities of religions originating particularly in India, with an emphasis on the philosophies of yoga.

The recipient of a number of prestigious teaching awards and academic research fellowships, Bill has traveled to and throughout India frequently since 1971 and has lived in contemplative settings for extended periods of time.

For several years now, Bill has expanded his teaching beyond academic walls into various settings across the continents, including yoga studios, teacher-training programs, retreat centers, spiritual communities, and other contexts in which he can delight in the company of people who wish to learn, renew, deepen, expand, and refine ways of understanding yoga and related forms of contemplative spiritual philosophy and practice.

Prema is co founder and lead yoga teacher of So’Ham Retreat Center.

Prema is a 500 hr RYT, Yoga Alliance approved teacher & yoga teacher trainer. She’s been practicing and teaching for over 20 years.

All of her classes are gentle alignment-based hatha yoga classes with some dynamic movement and breath-work making her classes very calming and therapeutic. Her classes are for beginners to intermediate.

She studied many years with well-respected and international yoga teachers such as Darren Rhodes, Bruce Bowditch and Christina Sells.

She has deep knowledge of the body and movement from studying massage, lymphatic system and shiatsu, meditation and pranayama/breathwork that she integrates with yoga to support calming the nervous system.

Prema keeps her classes basic, clear and simple for students to be safe and to experience connection to their heart and body, and to calm the mind.
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Check out Prema’s Youtube to learn more about her classes! Click HERE for sample class
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Prema began her yoga studies when she first traveled to Ganeshpuri India at the age of 17 and met her meditation teacher, she had the experience of love for no reason at all – unconditional love. After her first Hatha Yoga lesson she fell deeply in love with the physical and meditative aspects of yoga, and thus began her life’s journey of practicing and studying yoga, meditation and wellness.

Born and raised in Verona, Italy. Started practicing SiddhaYoga Meditation in his teens.It is a that age that he picks up both guitar and Mrdang (Classic Devotional Indian Drum)and keeps honing his skills.