Shanti Sheri Gonyea

Shanti began learning yoga in the U.S. Army stationed in Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea, in 1980 and has been teaching yoga, as well as continuing to learn it, since 1999. Her first teacher training was 300 hours in the lineage of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnu Devananda and since then she has completed three other teacher trainings, totaling an additional 700 hours, in various styles of Hatha Yoga. She taught yoga at the YMCA in Clarksville, Tennessee, for 10 years, from April 2002 to April 2012, and lived and taught yoga at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India, for two years, from April 2012 to April 2014. She then taught yoga at Anytime Fitness and the YMCA in Port Orange, Florida, and she taught three semesters of yoga and yoga philosophy at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Then she went back to the same ashram in India for another 6 months, from September 2017 to March 2018. She is now back in Clarksville teaching yoga at True Dharma Wellness. Shanti loves teaching and enjoys helping students at all levels learn the basics of yoga, yoga philosophy and meditation.