Mira and Shyam Mehta, sister and brother, have studied yoga since childhood with BKS Iyengar and annually attended his Institute in India.Working closely with their late mother, Silva, they have won international acclaim in the field of Yoga. Their pictures appeared in 1991 on Government of India stamps depicting Yoga postures. Their long involvement in the subject gives them a deep understanding, which is transmitted in their teaching.
Mira
graduated in Anthropology and Linguistics from London and has a Masters
degree in Sanskrit and Indian Religion from Oxford. She is currently pursuing
further studies in Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda and Sanskrit. She is a teacher
of international standing and regularly travels and teaches world-wide.
She was recognised for her work in the field of alternative health by
an entry in the Best of British Women yearbook 1993. Her books on Yoga
are highly regarded.
Shyam
is a Cambridge Mathematics graduate and follows a full time professional
career as an actuary and financial economist, advising major institutions
around Europe. He balances this with Yoga teaching and studies in Yoga philosophy.
Krishna
S. Arjunwadkar, the contributor of many articles on The Yogic Path
website, is an award-winning scholar of Sanskrit from India. He studied
in a traditional Sanskrit academy till the age of 17, when he transferred
to the modern educational system. He won a prestigious Sanskrit scholarship
of all-India importance and worked for the Government of India Sanskrit
Commission. He has taught Sanskrit and classical Indian subjects in schools,
colleges and universities in India and at the University of British Columbia,
Canada. He is also a specialist in Marathi linguistics. He was Professor
of Marathi at Bombay University.
Mira Mehta is also the author of Health Through Yoga and Yoga Explained .