Sandy Kriz

845-849-2795
845-214-0220
Email: sandy@kishnayoga.com

Born and raised in a hindu family with very strong spiritual practices with great influence from my grandparents Kishna and Nanan Sooknanan. My Grandmother left Gonda, India in 1908 to then British Guiana (now Guyana) and brought with her a bundle of goodness in the form of kindness, love, devotion and respect. And she passes those traits on to us, her grandchildren.

I grew up with great emphasis on devotion to God, to elders, to the sick, to the needy and the poor. From childhood I participated in chanting, bajans, satsangs, and attended temples and kirtans regularly. My Grandmother (Kishna) was a great teacher of love and devotion. She was the most inspiring woman I have ever known. Her sacrifice, her faith, her devotion, her kindness, her dedication to everyone who asked for help. She was the healer for many villagers, always there to help everyone. I never understood how she could work so hard and never complain. I always think of her conversations. I asked her one day why she would never take money for all the work she has done. She said "God has given me a gift, how can I charge for something that doesn't belong to me?" With those words still lingering in my head, my every action in this world never consists of a return. My life is a gift.

Because of her foundations I was able to make the decision to spend the rest of my life giving rather than receiving. And so I will spend this lifetime doing only what she taught me during her life. In dedication to her beautiful life I named the Yoga studio KISHNA YOGA.

She would be proud of what I have become, for teaching yoga was not the path I thought I would walk. I thought I would always be climbing the ladder; with a degree in nutrition, health and wellness was my main focus. I wanted more. My body and mind said greater success, but my soul said no. There was something else I needed, I just could not find it then. Today I have the greatest success one can ever achieve. I found MY SELF, MY BREATH, MY PATH. With sincere thanks to the Divine, my teacher, my grandparents, my family and my students, for without these divine souls, I would be still SEARCHING....