Gyandev McCord

Director of Ananda Yoga®, Hatha & Raja Yoga Teacher, Spiritual Travel Host, Writer and Lecturer, Minister

Combining a fun-loving spirit, keen insight into the spiritual life, and genuine warmth, Gyandev makes the inner quest seem both natural and doable. Over the last 29 years he has taught Ananda Yoga to thousands of students and trained hundreds of teachers around the world, often forging deep and lasting bonds of friendship and inspiration.

Gyandev’s devotion to sharing wisdom shows through the many resources he develops —online newspapers and forums, videos, and new courses— to help students deepen their experience of yoga, and give teachers more tools and insights for their own classes.

A resident of Ananda Village for more than 27 years, Gyandev has been Director of Ananda Yoga Teacher Training for the past 14 years. He is a co-founder of Yoga Alliance, and is still a member of its Board of Directors.

Gyandev’s delightful sense of humor and light-hearted humility shine through in all his classes, putting you at ease immediately. He has a natural gift for communicating the subtlest concepts in yoga in a fun, interesting, and relevant way. He inspires his students to take their practice of yoga to the deepest levels, and to access ever-greater joy within themselves.

Gyandev says:

“I especially enjoy teaching experienced yogis and teacher trainees who are new to Ananda Yoga. They have such an awakening! Very often I'll hear, 'I thought I was a serious yogi, but now I see that I really didn't know what I was doing. I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me.' When people are able to add the power of Ananda Yoga to what they already know, wonderful things like that can happen. It's a joy and a privilege for me to be part of that process.”

From one of his students:

Meet Gyandev

A keynote address: “Future Directions for Yoga in the West” at the 2011 Yoga Alliance Leadership Conference

Read his articles:

• Insights from a Master Teacher
• Level 1 AYTT Changes
• Ananda Yoga Goes to the Movies
• Playing the Pauses

Books by Gyandev

• Spiritual Yoga (available 2013)
• Yoga Therapy for Headache Relief (with Dr. Peter Van Houten)
• Yoga Therapy for Overcoming Insomnia (with Dr. Peter Van Houten)

Videos

• The Ananda Yoga Series (available late 2012)
• Yoga for Busy People
• Yoga to Awaken the Chakras

CDs

• Connect with Spirit
• Dance of Divinity
• Ease into Sleep
• Magnetize Your Life

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