Tanja Bungardt-Price is a certified yoga teacher who has been an avid student of yoga and Ayurveda since 2005 with a keen interest in exploring this ancient and holistic system of harmonizing body, heart, and mind. As a tool for self-healing and self-realization, her yoga journey led her to a desire to share her experiences with others, a natural evolution of her yoga path.
Tanja teaches yoga, not just poses with humor, compassion and love. Influenced by her Iyengar Training she focuses on alignment and the therapeutic power of yoga and the influence of Ashtanga and Vinyasa links her poses together. Tanja's knowledge and understanding of Ayurveda provides a tremendous support to her yoga teachings. She understands the unique needs of each student. Her life long journey of yoga is ongoing. She trained and got certified at Moksha (Chicago, IL) under Daren Friesen (http://www.mokshayoga.com/), where she learned the Vinyasa style. Apprenticed under Gabriel Halpern, owner of Yoga Circle and student of BKS Iyengar (http://www.yogacircle.com/gabriel.html), where she learned about Therapeutic Yoga in the Iyengar tradition and traveled to Mysore, India where she studied with Saraswathi (http://www.saraswathiashtanga.com/saraswati.html), Pattabhi Jois (http://kpjayi.org/) daughter, to study Asthanga. She participates in many yoga classes and workshops with master teachers (Gabriel Halpern, Sean Corn, Tias Little, Micheline Berry, Bo Forbes, Jim Bennitt, Kino MacGregor, Jonny Kest, Dr Indu Arora and Cornell Colbert) and peer mentors to continue her growth.
Tanja went to Mysore, India for 6 weeks, to study at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute founded by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois http://kpjayi.org/ , under his daughter Saraswathi http://www.saraswathiashtanga.com/saraswati.html. Tanja also studied Ayurveda, which she had been interrested about since her yoga practice began. Ashtanga and her trip to India opened a whole new inspiring experience into her life.
Saraswathi and Tanja in Mysore, India
Tanja and Kino MacGregor in Mysore, India
Sean Corn and Tanja at the Midwest Yoga conference
Tias Little and Tanja at Anatomy workshop
Graduation from Yoga teacher training with Daren Friesen, director of Moksha, Chicago, IL
Tanja, the artist Tanja has been drawing ever since she can remember. In the early nineties, she emigrated from Germany to the U.S. as a 22 year old artist in love, who dreamed of working for Disney one day. With a BFA in Media Arts and Animation, she has written and illustrated her own books, the publishes children's book "The Littlest Donkey", comics and animations. Tanja has a great passion for telling meaningful and personal stories about unusual or controversial issues through children's books, illustrations, 2D and 3D animations. She illustrated the published children's book "The Littlest Donkey". You can find some of her art on her website (http://tanjasart.com/). She loves to inspire both adults and children to talk, think, and connect. Tanja resides with her husband in Highland-Park as a freelance artist and yoga teacher. |
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