Rudrani Farbman Brown

Rudrani's classes, trainings and programs are grounded in the deep wisdom gained from a lifetime of immersing in the teachings and in the Shakti. You can feel the depth of her own self-inquiry and her years of teaching experience."

Rudrani began her study of Yoga in 1966 and founded the World Yoga Center in 1972 with a vision of spreading the greatness and luminosity of Yoga in the West. Originally certified as an Integral Yoga teacher in the late 60's, she served on the Integral Yoga Institute's National Board and as a staff lecturer, counselor and Hatha Yoga instructor. In 1974 she began a joyous life-long study of Siddha Yoga, having met her teacher, Muktananda Paramahamsa. Part of his original core of teachers, she ran a Siddha meditation center in NYC and led programs and meditation intensives throughout the U.S. She traveled with Swami Muktananda as a speaker/teacher for many years and lived for three years in his Ashram in India engaged in spiritual practices and the study of Yoga scriptures and philosophy.

On the west coast during the eighties, Rudrani was a meditation and yoga teacher in residence in the Santa Monica and Oakland S.Y. ashrams. She was also on faculty at the JFK Graduate School of Consciousness Studies and the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and gave Yoga programs throughout the Bay Area.

Rudrani directs the World Yoga Center, leading the teacher trainings, meditation courses and Satsangs. She has been a teacher of meditation, philosophy and transformational practices for 33 years. Rudrani is trained in several styles of Hatha yoga, and is an Anusara Inspired yoga teacher who began her study with John Friend in 1994. A charismatic teacher, her hatha classes are woven with Yoga teachings and are known for their clarity of instruction, and depth. An innovative counselor, Rudrani also maintains a private counseling practice since 1986 and heads the WYC Mentoring Program.