Amrit Yoga Institute Staff and Affiliate Directory
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Our senior teaching team brings unparalleled expertise, compassion, and dedication to every program we offer. Learn more about the highly respected leaders whose knowledge and commitment have made the Amrit Yoga Institute a trusted source for authentic yogic education and spiritual growth.
Indu Heather Arena
Senior Faculty & Acharya
As an Acharya and Senior Training Faculty, Indu reveals the depth, power, and profound simplicity of yoga in a richly steady, knowledgeable, and joyful way. From a young age, she contemplated and grasped the inner knowledge of existence. Her journey with yoga has shaped this understanding into form and structure, enabling her to transmit its subtle truths with Presence and Grace.…
Hasu Marney Coulter
Program Director, Senior Faculty & Acharya
C-IAYT Certified and Registered with International Association of Yoga Therapists, Hasu is the Director and Owner of Yoga by the Sea in BC, Canada. Hasu is an intuitive and knowledgeable Yogi. For more than 27 years, she has shared a flowing practice which creates self alignment and attunement, based on teachings from her own life experience, Amrit Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy.…
Chandrakant John Hiester
Senior Faculty & Yogacharya
Chandrakant is a senior teacher for the Amrit Yoga Institute and presents nationally and overseas in the Integrative Amrit Methods as well as a variety of other yoga and stress-reduction based programs. As a student and practitioner of yoga and meditation with Gurudev Shri Amritji for over forty years, his experience has given him a solid foundation for implementing programs that nurture and encourage positive changes in behavior and understanding through direct perception.…
Nirali Lauren McCrea
Senior Faculty & Yogacharya
Nirali began a consistent yoga practice when she was thirteen. She came to the feet of our lineage at the age of fifteen while taking classes from a Kripalu trained yoga teacher, which abruptly altered the trajectory of her life in a profound and enduring way. At eighteen, she devoted herself to yoga full-time, and at twenty, moved to the Amrit Yoga Institute, entering a period of immersive study and professional development that continues to shape her life’s work today.…
Jogn Vosler
Senior Faculty & Acharya
For over twenty years, John Vosler has had a passion for teaching how our thoughts and emotions affect our bodies. He has a degree in Human Development and certifications in multiple healing modalities. As a senior teacher for the Amrit Yoga Institute, he speaks internationally on the profound healing benefits of the ancient meditation practice of Yoga Nidra.…
Get to know the teachers available in your community
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Gurudev Shri Amritji
Guru, Senior Training Faculty

Chandrakant John Hiester
Senior Training Faculty, Yogacharya

Indu Heather Arena
Senior Training Faculty

John Vosler
Senior Training Faculty, Acharya

Nirali Lauren McCrea
Senior Faculty & Yogacharya

Hasu Marney Coulter
Program Director, Senior Faculty & Acharya

Ramdas Ormond
Senior Faculty & Acharya

Diane Renu Zagoria
Senior Faculty

Veda Lewis
Senior Faculty

Bhavaani Deanna Gray
RYT500, Program Faculty

Bhairav Curt Gibson
RYT200, Program Faculty