William Will Brashear

He has studied yoga since 1987 and has traveled regularly throughout India since 2003 to deepen his practice. He has been trained at the Advanced (500hr) level 3 times in India. Once through the Swara yoga school in Elemental Yoga and on 2 different occasions in with "Masterji" Vishwanath (nephew and former assistant to “Guruji” Patabhi Jois) at the Foundation for Patanjali Yoga Kendra. His 200 level training was in America in the Kripalu Yoga tradition by Martha Abbot, as well as Advanced training in Thai Yoga Massage thru the Lotus Palm school with Rishi Dion in "Yogaville's" Satchitananda Ashram in Virginia.   In 2004 Will assembled a crew of yoga teachers from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and other yogic lineages throughout India to create a model Graduate Degree program for Antioch University McGregor (AUM) in Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also the only student to be certified by Joe Williams to teach the Delsarte System of Expression (See Joe Williams bio below)    Will has served on the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i's of Cincinnati and other communities for many years and was asked by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i's of India to create materials to help Baha'i communities connect and correlate with Hindu and Buddhist communities through the teachings of yoga.   As a long time student of comparative/complementary religion, Will is the author of The Yoga of Religion (Inland Press, 2004) and was the host of YOGA: The Other 98%, on 1530 WCKY –The Revolution of Talk Radio.   Will has been the Director of Yoga Teacher Trainings for CYS, CYTA (Cincinnati Yoga Teachers Association), Frankfort Yoga Studio, Vishwa Yoga and the Vishwa Yoga Journey. There are also plans to team up with the Swara Yoga school based in Portugal to help in creating a 1000 hour Elemental Yoga program.    However, Will considers his greatest accomplishment as starting an elementary school that serves around 100 impoverished children in Chandigarh, India; and funded by the (501c3) non-profit organization known as Virtues First, International; of which he co-founded and serves as president. Most of the profits from this training go to this organization to help and empower India's needy:  www.virtuesfirstprojects.com