PremYoga Center - Teachers

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Acharya PremShakti

PremShakti has lived a unique life as a yogini in the West since 1974.  Commitment to her daily meditation and yoga practices give her deep insight and understanding of yoga, and it’s impact on Self-Realization - something that books cannot achieve.  Dedicated to self-discovery and strengthening connection with Spirit, she has helped thousands of people integrate the Science of Yoga into daily life on a practical level.

In 1974, PremShakti was a co-founder of the world-famous Kripalu Yoga Center in the Berkshires, near Stockbridge, MA, and lived there as a dedicated spiritual seeker, and renunciate, for over 20 years.  She was a devoted student of Swami Kripalu himself.  As a result of her personal sadhana (spiritual work), and her pro-found teaching, she was honored with the title 'acharya' (spiritual mentor) by Kripalu in 1992.

In 1996, PremShakti founded the PremYoga Center here in Haverhill (West Palm Beach) Florida, one of the oldest yoga centers in south Florida.

PremShakti shares her great compassion, wisdom, joyful nature, and awakening by leading spiritual retreats, sacred journeys, and Enlightenment Intensives.  She is also renowned as a 'teacher of yoga teachers' and has trained over 500 teachers all over the world, including over 20% of all the yoga teachers in SE Florida.  She has been offering professional, nationally-certified, 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Programs here in Florida for 12 years, and spends several months every year designing and teaching 200-hour, 500-hour, and (soon) 1000-hour Yoga Teacher Training Programs at the Kripalu Center, where she is currently a Senior Faculty Member.  She also individually mentors and guides yoga teachers making their way through various training programs.

PremShakti has designed and taught classes, workshops, and residential programs in yoga, pranayama, meditation, holistic healthcare for helping professionals, bodywork/massage, and the healing arts - locally here in Florida, for the Kripalu Center, and for the Kripalu International Network worldwide.

PremShakti also leads kirtans (spiritual chanting), based on her experience and knowledge of mantra and bhakti yoga, as an avenue to an expanded state of consciousness, a slowing-down time that brings us home to our hearts.

PremShakti travels and teaches internationally, and currently makes her home in West Palm Beach, Florida.  She also maintains a private practice where she offers  Life Coaching for Enlightened Living, and Body-Mind Yoga Therapy, both in person and by phone internationally.

PremShakti can be reached at PremShakti@EnlightenedLiving.net or 561-351-3680

Testimonials about Acharya PremShakti

"Premshakti has shown a profound dedication and commitment to the path of yoga, to her students and her personal sadhana. She is an excellent yoga teacher!" - Rick Faulds, Past President of the Kripalu Center

"I have loved PremShakti since first meeting her years ago.  The joy and love of her spirit ignite the hearts of others through her teaching, chanting, and pure presence." - Stephen Cope, author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

"PremShakti is deeply grounded in the healing power & wisdom of yoga." - Michael Lee, founder, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

"PremShakti embodies the rare combination of wisdom and compassion.  Her presence creates the safe place that al-lows us to discover our true self.  Her radiant heart invites those around her to grow toward the highest potential.  I am blessed to know such a beautiful soul." - Rachel Schaeffer, author of Building Spiritual Muscles Through Yoga

Dr. Michael Dean Goodman

Michael is an internationally recognized spiritual guide, counselor, relationship coach, educator, and author.  He holds a Ph.D., and is the Director of PARA - The Center for Realization, and Director of The Relationship Institute, both in Boca Raton, Florida, and Co-Director of the PremYoga Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.  He has conducted hundreds of workshops worldwide, and also offers counseling and coaching (private educational sessions) for individuals and coup-les.  He has taught spirituality and healing modalities on the faculty of six universities and eight national or international educational foundations.

Michael has been studying, practicing, and teaching the spiritual path (ashtanga yoga/meditation, tantra, vedanta, and ayur veda) for 30 years.  He spent years living in devotion to, and studying in the ashram with, one of the greatest Indian vedic/yogic/tantric Masters, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who initiated him, guided him, awakened him, and eventually sent him out to share this profound knowledge.  He's taught thousands of people, and has conducted hundreds of satsangs, sharing awakening, helping people to rediscover their real nature as the infinite silence of pure consciousness (the Self), as the unbounded dynamism of the universe (God and Goddess in cosmic union), and as That which knows them both.

As a counselor, drawing upon his Eastern and Western training, Michael has created Re-unification Therapy - innovative, powerful, and rapid methods of healing core wounds, and turning off old sabotaging programming, so that we can be whole again, be at peace inside, get our life flowing unhindered, unfold the richness of our masculine and feminine energies, harmonize our needs for intimacy and independence, integrate our physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual desires, befriend and harness our "shadow" side for wholeness, and live ecstasy in our daily life.  Michael is also experienced with and compassionate to non-traditional lifestyles.

Michael's life coaching integrates relationship work (communication, Mars/Venus polarity, devotion), body/energy work (movement, breath, sound, attention, intention), mental/emotional work, and spiritual sadhana as needed.

For recreation, Michael enjoys martial arts (he competed in the NCAA Karate Nationals), teaching partner dancing (ballroom/swing/Latin/disco/Argentine tango), singing & playing piano (he's performed publicly hundreds of times), running drum circles, photographing beauty, and creating fantasy performance-art scenes.

Michael can be reached at: tantra@cheerful.com or 561-350-3930