It will make things clearer in your heart and clearer in your world

Keith Borden | Lead Teacher

I am consistently turned on by the stillness within movement, the silence hidden in sound, and the esoteric in the everyday. I love to practice yoga, and sharing this practice that I love for the last nineteen years has been a terrific gift. I'm very lucky. I have great teachers in my life – Jasmine Tarkeshi, David Robson, David Gellineau, Manorama, and Rabbi Joseph Gellberman, Arturo Peal, Cheri Clampett Borda – and being a student is one of the best parts of the yoga practice. I have had the unique experience of working closely with and learning directly from my teachers for the majority of my teaching career, and I continue to learn through the transformative process of self-reflection and the creative dialogue of teaching.

The classes I offer are energetic and balanced, and are infused with playfulness and creativity. I strive to live, breathe, and offer the devotion-rich yoga that comes out of my daily home practice. I'm a singer, kirtan wallah, a bhakta, and an interfaith minister. I always chant with my classes, and occasionally I play and sing during savasana.

I love to experiment in my practice, and years of Muay Thai, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong have taught me that all movement is healing and complementary to my sadhana. My goal is to hold a space that fosters inner quiet, true strength, and a healthy, joyous spirit where students can re-unite with and REJOICE in their true Self.

Megan Grace | Perennial Founder & Curator

I was still an infant in my understanding of the deeper meaning of yoga when I began instructing yoga classes, but I wasn’t new to the art of teaching because I had already taught undergrad and graduate Social Work courses for many years. Now, as a lead teacher for Perennial's Yoga School/Teacher Training program, I am often reminded how far I’ve come and how far I still have to go. But that’s the beauty of yoga - it’s a lifelong course on learning how to live and connect well.  Yoga is my lens, it brings focus to what matters most and to how I see myself and others.  It has granted me the capacity to love myself and others, it has brought flexibility and adaptability on and off the mat, and because of yoga I'm able to lean into life's most challenging moments. Best of all, yoga in my life means being surrounded by the most loving and kind-hearted people on the planet.

From my vantage point I get to see all the ways a regular yoga practice creates extraordinary shifts in people's lives and this is what makes me so unapologetic about my passion for spreading this practice far and wide.  I also see, firsthand, how up-leveling your regular yoga practice by taking part in our yoga school/teacher training program sets you on a path of living life from the center of your dharma - your purpose.