Other teachers in the school

Ananda Murti

Ananda Murti

grew up near Copenhagen. She has been associated with the school since 1972 and has taught for 22 years in many places, among them Håå Course Centre and Århus. She had a school in the town of Ålborg for eight years. She is in great demand at the evening schools in Denmark, as she usually attracts full courses. In 1993 she started a school in Elsinore, from where she now teaches in North Zealand.

Gunnar

Gunnar Petersen

is Danish. He was a yoga teacher first at the school’s branch in Gothenberg in 1978, and afterwards in Oslo. Since 1983 he has been in charge of the school in Århus, where he collaborates with two of the city's largest evening schools. For many years he has been teaching yoga and meditation daily to a wide range of people, including college students and senior citizens. He is interested in regional history and geography. Gunnar has travelled and taught throughout all of Scandinavia, Greece and Czechoslovakia.

Bjarke

Bjarke

is Danish. After a 3-month Course in 1976 he joined the yoga teacher education with Swami Janakananda in search of combining an active, creative life with spiritual qualities. In 1983 he founded the school in Bergen, Norway. Bjarke has been teaching Classical Yoga for nearly 30 years, the last 20 years also the advanced tantric meditations, Antar Mauna and Ajapa Japa. His creativity has also been put into painting, computer graphics, desktop publishing, building traditional norwegian timberhouses etc. Bjarke lives together with Audhild and their son, Mikal, at Ask Course Center in Norway.

Mette

Mette Kierkgaard

was born and raised in Hong Kong. She has used yoga and meditation since 1972. From 1985 she has taught with the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in Copenhagen, Oslo and Århus, and for five years she ran a branch of the school in Esbjerg with Bhawana Murti. Mette now lives in Copenhagen, where, besides teaching at the school, she also organises yoga courses for pregnant women in other towns and gives lectures on antenatal care.

Audhild Naustdal

is Norwegian and born in Førde. She is educated by Swami Janakananda and Bjarke and has taught yoga and meditation since 1988 with Yoga for pregnant women as her speciality. Audhild has a background as a pre-school teacher, but from 2001 she has been working full time as a yoga teacher. She is also responsible for the productions of Futon Yoga Mats for the yoga schools in Norway.