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Anusara
Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means "flowing with Grace," "flowing with Nature," "following your heart."

Founded in 1997, Anusara yoga is a school of hatha yoga, which unifies a life-affirming Shiva-Shakti Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness with Universal Principles of Alignment.

-Anusara Website

Anusara Opening Invocation

Many Anusara classes begin with the chanting of aum followed by the Anusara Invocation. The invocation can be thought of an honoring of the teacher inside each of us for we are our greatest teacher.

Om
Namah Shivaya Gurave
I honor the essence of Being, the Auspicious One,
the luminous Teacher with and without,

Satchidananda Murtaye
Who assumes the forms of Truth,
Consciousness, and Bliss,

Nishprapanchaya Shantaya
Is never absent, full of peace,

Niralambaya Tejase
Ultimately free and sparkles with a divine luster.

Om