Amrit Desai

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Amrit Desai is a Yoga master, born in the village of Halol in India. From the age of 15, he was trained by his guru was Swami Kripalvananda, and, currently, he oversees the Amrit Yoga Center in Salt Springs, Florida, located in the Ocala National Forest.

In 1966, Yogi Desai founded the Yoga Society of Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization providing yoga classes and training for yoga teachers. The name of the Society was later changed to Kripalu Yoga Fellowship, in honor of Swami Kripalvandanda.

It was during this period that Yogi Desai developed the yogic system popularly referred to as Kripalu Yoga. Although he left the Fellowship in the early 1990s amidst scandal, the organization itself continues to operate as a nonprofit and charitable entity under the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health banner in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

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• Amrit Yoga Institute