Krishna Naidu
CMT, HHP, RYT
Certified Massage Therapist
Certified Holistic Health Practitioner
Registered Yoga Teacher

A Little About Me...

I am a Certified Massage Therapist with more than 1000 hours  in-classroom study in a variety of therapeutic bodywork modalities and over 10 years bodywork experience.

In addition to massage, I also a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Registered Yoga Teacher, with more than 2000 hours in-classroom study.  Recently, I have also been teaching a variety of introductory massage, yoga, and meditation classes while on tour in the USA.

I am an active member of Yoga Alliance, and Student of Swami Nirmalananda (Rama Berch) of the Saraswati lineage

In December of 2008 I toured India, visiting many sacred temples and ashrams dedicated to spiritual enlightenment. 

I recently moved to Arizona to open Yogic Vision a Yoga Studio in Scottsdale, AZ to teach full time the yoga that has brought me so much health, peace, and inspiration... Svaroopa Yoga.  

More In Depth

I have a love of nutrition, music of all types, Religious and Mystical Philosophy, and Psychology of Eastern and Western thought. My Dharma is to support the Students of Life.

I began this vision at age 16 when I looked around and said there has to be more to life than this. For 3 years I carried this inner longing to know the purpose of my life at 19 I could take it no longer I dropped out of comunity college and went to massage school, I found a tradition of classical yoga and from the very first Satsang "gathering" I felt a sense of peace I did not even know I was looking for. I can only describe it as a feeling of coming home. 

As I experienced one ecstatic experience after another  while chanting, meditating, offering selfless service,  offering monetary donations, and doing contemplation. I developed a fascination with what was it that turned other people on to practice different religeous traditions? I found Mystic Traditions running along side Religious Traditions and concluded there is a perfect path for everyone if one is inclined to go looking for it. 

Mysticism is about having a direct experience.

I believe that everything happens in it's perfect timing. I have experienced over and over on my journey a sense of awe and wonderment as lessons have come to me, and in ways I could never have predicted. There is a nugget of wisdom to be discovered in each moment. Though we don't always go looking for deeper meaning when things are going well.

I found Svaroopa yoga in 2002 when a long time friend, and fellow practitioner of Siddha Yoga introduced me to her mother Rama Berch the founder of Svaroopa Yoga. I was amazed be the deep openings I experienced even from my first class. In my second class I experienced tension in my neck release that I didn't even know was there. These were tensions that I had carried so long that I didn't know anything other and unconsciously accepted that this is how I was knowing nothing different... This opening in my neck was beyond anything I had experierinced in the bodywork styles I had trained in in the prior 4 years. I decided to sign up for the teacher training. A week later my partner of the time experienced a similar opening. The yoga reaching into her and releasing tensions her conscious and unconscious mind had catagorized as what was shook loose. She signed up to take the next foundational level of training with me called foundations. 

I have been continually amazed by the openings in my body as the mahakundalini with the support and independent of external support of practices has opened up new awarenesses. I have experienced intense physical Kriyas(benefitial yogic movements that happen independent of the persons will), and supported others as the kundalini is doing her work on their body to have it be a even more easeful and blissful process. I have found the kundalini does not neccessarily become more active based on the level of your practice, though it does help. I know of students of yoga that have been practicing for years and have experienced only mild kriyas. Also others who walked into their first meditation program and looked up at a picture of a saint and began to shake uncontrollably. It is hard to say if they were just ripe or kundalini in her intelligence gives people exactly what they need or can tollerate when they are ready.

I didn't have these types of experiences until I had a sustained regular daily practice for a period of 3 months. The kundalini began to rip through my body and I scared a few people in a Hari Krishna temple who had never seen such a thing. Bandhas(yogic locks) arose naturally. I found what Muktananda said to be true. There is no need to spend hundereds of hours practicing windy pranayamas. the breath will arrise and purify itself as you continue to meditate. My breathing did all sorts of things I had never heard of or read about to the point of scaring me away from practicing for periods of time. I experienced the breath  Slowing down, speeding up, stopping for many minutes, and other variations. This is why it is neccessary to have a guide who can inspire and comfort you, as well as remove any feelings of fear or anziety that are arrising from the experiences arrising. One thing is for sure yoga transforms ones understanding of what you know to be true on all levels Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally.

The benifits of yoga in all it's variations are far beyond what can be explained. Simply put by my teacher Swami Nirmalananda "Do More Yoga."           

Chanting is a blissful practice that I have been able to take with me everywhere. It took my love of singing to a whole new place. It develops devotion and feelings of love. Chanting is a complete yoga in and of itself. After a month of chanting twice a week  for a hour with a group I had the tangable experience of insomnia lift that I had suffered from for years.

I have gotten inspiration from being with other people who have steady practices throughout the years. Swami Nirmalananda and other yogi's have inspired me to go deeper and I have become less hard on myself on the consistency of my practice. Doing yoga with whatever consistency  will bear fruit. After years of practicing yoga in all it's forms, diving in and resurfacing I realized that depending on the personality different people need different types of support to have there practice accelerate. I found personally an external structure of a ashram, or working a 9-5 job helped me to create a consistent practice. Being a entreprenuer puts a whole different kind of challenge to maintaining ones practice. When things get difficult, there is a deadline to meet, or another things come up generally the first thing to go is my yoga or other practices that keep me fresh. This is where the importance of internal practices comes into play.  I decided to create an enviorment arround me that supported me to go deeper.