Dan May is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a Yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). Dan has trained under the Bhakti Yoga lineage at Jai Yoga School. See the link on Yoga Teacher Training to the left!
Dan was a music major and studied classical guitar and music theory before changing his major to Political Science and again later to Finance at the undergraduate level. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Finance and a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the State University of New York.
Dan studied abroad in Beijing, China where he studied Chinese at Beijing Capital University under the exchange intent of understanding the role of religion in China. He returned to Syracuse New York where he often attended meditation sessions at the Zen Buddhist center. He returned to Guangzhou, China in 1999 where he lived and worked at Sun Yat Sen University until 2010. It was there, in Guangdong, under the guidance of Zen Buddhist monks, that he began to find peace in a chaotic mind. Silence.
Painting of Dan in China by Zhang Laoshi 2003.
But santosha didn’t come until Bhakti gave him Yoga, and kirtan. There, in the moment, he found profound incomparable ananda. Don’t be surprised if, when you meet him, he has a guitar or harmonium or is singing or if you’re lucky, all 3, while doing Yoga.
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