Ian Śaśi Mair has been a lifelong student of yoga. He has benefited from the teachings of many celebrated teachers over the decades. This journey has taken him to study, practice and teach yoga in several countries, including The United States and China.. As a resident of the Yoga Society of San Francisco for 13 years, he was immersed in the study of Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy in the lineage of Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, and under the tutelage of renowned teachers like the late Dr Ram Karan Sharma, Dr Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, Indira and Shanta Bulkin and Kiranavali Devi. He brings his wisdom and wealth of experience gathered to share as teacher of Introduction to Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy in the Urban Asana American Yoga Council teacher training program. Shashi holds a Bachelor Architectural Design from Florida International University, and is a healer and massage therapist with Certification in acupressure from Acupressure Institute, Berkeley.

".... for I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists ".
- Mahatma Gandhi

".....We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."
- Haile Selassie 1 , King of Kings

"Since all things in the universe arise from the same ch'i, then the people of the world are our brothers:
water, plants, earth,fire and metals are my companions......".
- Chang Tsai (1020-1077) Chinese philosopher doctor