Meet Our Faculty

Harmeet Singh was born and raised in India where he experienced the culture that yoga flourishes within, from a mother who cooked using Ayurvedic principals, to a father who took a disciplined and devotional approach to physical asana practice; and from studying the spiritual texts to learning verses and mantras. In his current work, Harmeet is a Director of Innovation and teaches creative thinking to many technically oriented professionals in the software industry. The ideas fostered through his work have become product offerings with top-tiered tech giants. Through Setu, Harmeet looks to promote laughter and North Indian dancing, in conjunction with meditation through different modalities. He is an avid carpenter and loves to learn through doing.

Dr. Padmini Ranganathan graduated from Ayurveda College with her BAMS in 2003. After initially working in an Ayurveda practice in Hyderabad, she worked in the rural villages of Madurai for 3-years promoting awareness about traditional medicine and herbs, in addition to providing primary health care services. In 2007, she opened an Ayurveda practice in Mysore India. She regularly conducts seminars both locally and abroad, most notably on the topics of brahmanam and langhanam, the connection between yoga and Ayurveda, and advanced workshops on therapy. She fosters a close connection to students of TKV Desikachar including, R. Sriram, Barbara Nagel, Anita Buchhart Roeser. She currently has a clinic in Mysore, India and teaches courses on Ayurveda for yoga students online.

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Tara, with her unique blend of East Indian and Canadian heritage, has been practising yoga for over 20 years and has been exploring her mind since 1989. This rich cultural connection and her innate gift allow her to share pure knowledge from the East with the modern world of yoga in the West, creating a bridge of understanding and appreciation. 

Under the guidance of renowned teachers Tim Miller, R. Sharath, and R. Saraswathi Jois, Tara immersed herself in the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. Her dedication was further evident as she spent 4 years assisting in a busy shala in Mysore, India. (lvl 2) 

She has been a student of Dr. Vigneshwar Bhats for almost a decade and continually studies the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Vedic Chanting. 

Tara is also a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IYAT, T. Krishnamacharya lineage) who specializes in Trauma, Stress, and anxiety.

Tara's unwavering belief in the path of continuous learning is the cornerstone of her teaching philosophy. Her commitment to expanding her knowledge, evident in her continuous studies of yoga sutras, Upanishads, Ayurveda, and Healing, inspires confidence in her students. This dedication, coupled with her traditional yet playful teaching style, which incorporates the teachings of her mentors, makes her a highly effective and respected yoga teacher

Amanda Kenyon is a nature therapy and meditation guide, woman, voice for the land, belly dancer, accountant, cook, sister, volunteer, novice at building stone walls, hiker of high peaks and a humble human learning every day from all the beings of this shared planet Earth. She is a community member amongst the housed and unhoused people living on the unceded homeland of the Elnu Abenaki people, in the place called Wantastegok, “the river where something is lost”, at the confluence of the Wantastekw/West and Kwenitekw/Connecticut Rivers, known as Brattleboro, Vermont. Amanda guides mindfulness and sensory-based nature experiences that promote holistic well-being and strengthen our relationship with nature, ourselves, and other humans. Her forest immersion experiences and nature therapy sessions are rooted in the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku–forest bathing, and are powerful tools for finding presence, connection and wellness in one's life. Amanda is certified by The Forest Therapy School and is also Wilderness First Aid trained. Her business is called Landkind Guide in recognition of our kinship with all beings---mankind as well as the more-than-human beings who we share this land with.

In Heidrun’s own words: “My interest in Ayurveda stems from intellectual curiosity and personal necessity in my own healing process. I studied various health and healing modalities since 2004, gradually reorienting my conceptual and experiential praxis of health in a holistic framework. Growing up with parents who were allopathic physicians, I encountered a system of medicine that diagnosed and managed illnesses, but fell short in terms of preventative and sustainable options. Having my thyroid removed at 21 meant a radical debilitation in my physiology that still requires considerable management.

“Ayurveda offers a multitude of options for supporting my health as I age with this continual homeostatic disruption. I can’t re-grow another thyroid (for now!), but I can slow down and prevent some of the (un)expected conditions which result from my particular circumstance. Ayurveda is a vast system of knowledge that has transformed my worldview, given tools to support myself and others while reifying a continual reverence of nature.”