Margaret Hahnwas founder of the Omaha Yoga School and trains teachers in Omaha; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Calgary, Alberta. Margaret began studying yoga in 1972. She has studied yoga asana and pranayama (posture and breath control) with American instructors Lynn Anstine, Diane Hatfield, Jerry Byrd, and Ramanand Patel. On trips to India she has studied with B.K.S. Iyengar and his daughter, Geeta, and son, Prashant. Her research into the history of yoga brought Margaret to the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur, India, where she participated in asana and pranayama classes with the Temple guru. Margaret has studied Indian art and religion with scholars Dale Stover, Dorothy Fickle, Robert Minor and Michele Desmarais. She has studied Indian philosophy and yoga practice with London instructor Kamal Paul; meditation with Indian gurus, Mahatmaji Parlokanand and Dr. V. J. Pratrap, and chanting with Pandit Mukesh Desai. With the help of students and family, Margaret self-published Hymns of the Omaha Yoga School in 1997; Beginning Yoga, Omaha Yoga School in 1999; The Ganesha Series and Responses to the Challenge of Terror: A Traveling Essay by Dr. John Paul Lederach in 2001.
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