welcome to
honored self
Honored Self
offers Svaroopa® Yoga, and Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation tools and techniques
grounded in peace.
Sanskrit is the
language of yoga.
Svaroopa is a Sanskrit word pronounced 'swa-roopa.' It means your true form. Vidya means knowing from your own experience.
Svaroopa® yoga classes and therapy are focused on releasing spinal tension and recognizing your source.
Gangaji
Gurudevi
Atmananda
Valerie
Teachers
Atmananda Valerie is endlessly grateful to her teachers.
Gangaji,
who transmitted the teachings of
Sri Ramana Maharsi
and Papaji invited her to live from source. She opened to and accepted that invitation in every way. It changed her life forever.
She then followed her inner guidance to serve this realization.
This lead her to deepening and embodying with 17 years of studies with
Gurudevi Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati. Gurudevi is the originator of
Svaroopa® yoga and meditation.
Gurudevi gave her a 2 Sanskrit names: Atmananda & Dasi.
Atmananda means
bliss of the self: dual & non-dual.
Dasi means servant of God.
She also received the title: Yogaratna.
this title honors one who has developed their inner depth in such a way that they can
shine it into the world.
May all these offereings serve the ultimate unfolding of love, peace and grace
in our world and beyond.
Studies & Offerings
Atmananda Valerie has over 2000 hours of combined yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and meditation teacher training. Practicing several styles of yoga for 27 years, she began teaching Svaroopa® yoga classes and therapy sessions in 2009. Before that, in 2002 she began creating and leading spiritual retreats, classes, sessions, workshops, and individual and group healing sessions and classes.
Atmananda Valerie is registered with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-500. She has Certification as a Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (700 hours); Svaroopa® Yoga Therapist (800 hours); Embodyment® Therapist; Vichara-Yogic Self Inquiry Therapist; Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation Teacher; Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group Leader; Half Day Workshop Leader; Reiki Master; and Mayan 9-Dimensions of Consciousness Initiator.
A Note from Atmananda Valerie
"I have found tremendous support for honoring source, self, and surroundings.
I offer you this same support with the techniques that I teach; and more importantly with honoring the source from which these tools arise.
I delight in joining you on this adventure of
honoring our source,
our self & our surroundings together."
With Love, Atmananda Valerie