Octavia Nasr

Octavia grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She moved to the US in her twenties and found Yoga in her thirties. Her teaching is inspired by several yoga traditions including the teachings of the Himalayan Masters under Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati and Vedic Chanting under Sadhvi Abha Saraswati of Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. In her two decades of yoga studies, she completed more than 1,500 hours of teacher training in various yoga styles including Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Kriya, and Yoga Nidra. She wrote her Master's Thesis on the Identity of Yoga and compared the rhetorical messaging of the original masters to modern-day teaching requirements. Her research showed how yoga's traditional message has been truncated over the years and diluted down to a focus on asanas (poses). In her thesis, she offers yoga schools a prescriptive solution that is based on Patanjali's Eight Limbs with a focus on the first two, the Yamas and Niyams.

Read more