Tanya Boigenzahn

Tanya started practicing yoga since the early 90s and has been teaching since 1996. She has meditated since age 15, and has a daily practice. Tanya devotes her life to sharing the gifts of yoga, wellness and well-being with clarity, ease, and joy while keeping in mind the constant evolution of the soul. YOGA TEACHER TRAINING & BACKGROUND For over 20 years, Tanya has travelled and worked in a variety of foreign places from London to Wyoming to Portland to San Francisco, and has studied yoga with many respected teachers. In 2005 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, and has been initiated into the 5000+ year old Himalayan tradition that includes the lineage of master teachers such as Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, and Bengali Baba. Rod’s style of yoga, known as ParaYoga, blends the three rivers of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda and the Yoga Sutras into one comprehensive study. Through this wisdom, Tanya specializes in helping students create a holistic practice based on their physical, energetic, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. She continues to study under Rod, Pandijit, Rolf Sovik, and many other teachers channeling the sacred tradition of yoga, tantra and meditation. She completed her 500 hour Yoga Alliance teaching credentials through ParaYoga® and is one of the only Level 2 Certified Teachers in the world, and the only one in MN. Her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training was completed in 2001 through the It’s Yoga Ashtanga Teacher Training Program in San Francisco with Larry Schultz. Tanya also has several teacher training certificates in Prenatal Yoga, plus a wide variety of other teacher trainings from many other recognized teachers including Dharma Mittra, Judith Lasater, Paul Grilley, Seane Corn, Tias Little, Indu Arora, James Bailey, Kathryn Templeton, David Swenson, Doug Swenson and more… As a Four Desires Certified Trainer, Tanya has been groovin' on the Four Desires process under her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, since 2006 and is honored to help spread these teachings. Deeply touched by the wealth of wisdom and clarity it brings, she offers this rich study in her Advanced 340hr Yoga Teacher Training as well as in weekend workshops, retreats and individual privates and small group sessions. Tanya blends her studies of Tantra Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow in each class. Focus is on aligning the physical with the subtle by using breath, awareness, alignment, and ancient yoga techniques including meditation, pranayama, kriya, bandha, chakra work, mudra, and mantra. She also strives to help students uncover their highest potential though tapas (purification & discipline), stiram (steadiness in body/mind) andsukham (maintaining a healthy sense of humor or ease during practice). In her private yoga sessions, her focus with students is to help them find their Sva Dharma, or (individual destiny) through use of Ayurvedic principles, Vinyasa Krama (proper sequencing), tapas (discipline), smarana (rememberance of the self) as well as mantra and meditation practices. She wishes to thank all of her teachers and mentors who have guided her on her path including Yogarupa Rod Stryker, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, James Bailey, Ajahn Pichest Boonethame, Julie Laurence, Carol Schoenecker, Jonas Westring, Jennifer Gray and Sigal Kemnitz. She currently teaches her classes, trainings and workshop at her yoga, bodywork and wellness school, Devanadi Yoga, located in the Linden Hills area of Minneapolis. We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Do not wait for a leader, do it alone, person to person. - Mother Theresa THAI YOGA BODYWORK/THAI MASSAGE TRAINING & BACKGROUND Tanya holds Instructor status with THAI and is honored to serve on their Executive Council. She is a senior student of Master Teacher (Ajahn) Pichest Boonethame of Chiang Mai, Thailand, and other respected teachers such as Ohm Rinraya, Bob Haddad, Homprang, in the field, at home and abroad. Tanya visits Thailand annually where she continues her study of Thai Massage, as well as Buddhist meditation, Thai Shamanic techniques, traditional Thai herbal and holistic practices, and other cultural delights. Her first certification in Thai Massage came from Jonas Westring of Shantaya.  Motivated to help expand the knowledge of the traditional practices of holistic healing through bodywork, Tanya has been teaching her Thai Yoga Bodywork Certificate Program that merges Traditional Thai Massage with the subtler work of Reiki Therapy and energy anatomy since 2003 and is honored to have taught hundreds of students this ancient holistic art. ENERGY WORK TRAINING & BACKGROUND Tanya, a CHTP, is also a certified Reiki & Seichem Practitioner (Seichem combines the energies of five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether). Her training in HT is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses’ Association. For continuing study, Tanya is training with Master Chunyi Lin. AYURVEDIC YOGA SPECIALIST TRAINING & BACKGROUND Therapeutic benefits of yoga and Ayurveda have been a long-time studies for Tanya who learned about it in her early days of yoga. Since then, she has connected not only with the Thai Ayurvedic ways of holistic well-being, but has continued her study in the Sevanti Ayurveda Wellness Counselor Program (AWCP) as well as the Himalayan Institute’s Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (AYS) Training. She has completed HI's Torchbearer/Advanced AYS studies and has served as an Himalayan Institute Adjunct Faculty Teacher. Tanya completed her Advanced Therapeutic Benefits of Yoga Program* through YogSadhana with Indu Arora, and focuses on women's health, stress/anxiety/depression, and other conditions. When she’s not upside down in Pincha Mayurasana, she’s usually talking about vata-derangement with like-minded students and craving a homemade chai! CERTIFICATIONS ParaYoga© Level 2 Certified Teacher Four Desires Certified Trainer Certified through YogSadhna Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (AYS) through Himalayan Institute Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500) through Yoga Alliance Instructor Status through THAI Registered Thai Practitioner (RTT) through THAI Certified Practitioner of the Thai Yoga Method Certified HT Practitioner (CHTP) Reiki Master Seichem AFFILIATIONS Member of Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America (AAPNA) Member of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP) Member of MN Ayurveda Assocation Member of IAYT Member of Yoga Alliance Member of HT International (HTI) Executive Board Member for THAI (past) Columnist (Yogini-at-Large) for Twin Cities METRO Magazine (past) Prana Influencer Banyan Botanicals Affiliate Espirit de She Brand Ambassador MORE ABOUT TANYA Tanya is the owner, founder and director of Devanadi - School of Yoga and Wellness and Thai Yoga Bodywork in Minneapolis, MN, focusing on yoga teacher training, guest teachers, workshops and student mentorship. She travels more and more offering workshops, trainings, and client sessions nationally, and guides retreats internationally. She also enjoys nature, cooking, travel, and quality time with friends and family! You might see her and her son, River, at the climbing gym or doing AcroYoga together, giggling. She wishes to thank her teachers – past and present – for their love, guidance and support, and aims to help connect students from all walks of life to living in light and reaching their full potential.