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Chandra began studying Tibetan Buddhism in 1996, in Dharamsala,
North India, at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, founded
by H. H. the Dalai Lama. While there, she studied Tibetan language,
Buddhist philosophy, and meditation. In 1997, she resumed her studies
in the Religious Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara where she
worked on the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts with the Buddhist
scholar, B. Alan Wallace. She also taught Tibetan language in the
same department, as well as, supervised the cataloguing of the Tibetan
Buddhist Canon for Davidson Library at UC Santa Barbara.
Chandra
has been studying yoga since 1991 and began teaching in 2000 after
training with Integrative
Yoga Therapy (IYT), as well as Sarah
Powers and Paul
Grilley. She blends her studies of Vinyasa, Shadow and Yin yoga
to create a practice imbued with sensitivity and strength. In her
classes, she integrates her background as a translator of Tibetan
Buddhist texts into her teaching of both yoga and meditation as
a way of facilitating a direct experience of mindfulness, introspection,
and compassion in one's practice.
Her primary Buddhist teachers are H.
H. the Dalai Lama, Thich
Nhat Hanh, and B. Alan
Wallace. Her primary yoga teachers are Sarah Powers, Zhander
Remete, and her husband Scott Blossom. Chandra lives in Berkeley,
California with Scott and their 7 year-old daughter, Tara, her primary
teacher in every way.
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for her workshop and retreat schedule.
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