Santosha Instructors
Co-Owner
Janie Ganga Fronek
Co-Owner
Padma Michelle Gering
Janie Ganga is a certified Integrative Amrit Method (I AM) Yoga Teacher. Her training includes Amrit Level 1, Level 2, Yoga Nidra (Guided Meditation), Advanced Yoga Nidra, I AM Yoga Nidra for Kids, and I AM Yoga Therapy. She also leads Integral Breathwork and Let Your Yoga Dance.
Janie Ganga believes in Health at Every Size – the simple premise that the best way to improve health is to honor your body. She teaches Private Yoga & weekly group classes and she loves helping to make the ancient teachings of yoga accessible to ALL.
For more info: https://www.janieganga.com/yoga-private-yoga
Padma started her yogic journey in 2013. Her first certification was as an Amrit Yoga Therapy Facilitator in 2017, which led to an Integrated Amrit Method (I AM) Yoga teacher certification in 2018. Padma moved into the Amrit Yoga Institute in 2019 where she studied and worked as a vegan chef. During that time, she received an I AM Yoga Nidra certification. In 2020 she completed her Kid’s Yoga Nidra certification and her Yin Yoga Certification in 2021.
She is passionate about Yoga Nidra as it promotes a natural level of healing and deep restoration, using the source of Love from within. Padma finds strength in connecting with nature from the forest to the beach and everywhere in between. She believes in the ability to change your life through yoga. Padma Is available for Private Yoga Nidra Sessions.
Our Lineage
Santosha Yoga has deep, direct energetic roots reaching back to the yoga lineage of Swami Kripalu, from the Gujarat region of India.
Jai Bhagwan!
You may occasionally hear our Instructors give thanks, in celebration and recognition of this Lineage of Light. The Sanskrit words and some interpretations are below.
Jai Dadaji
Jai Bapuji
Jai Gurudev
Jai Bhagwan!
Jai = hail or victory, celebration, honoring
Dadaji = literally in Sanskrit “beloved grandfather.” In our tradition, this refers to Yogi Amrit Desai’s spiritual grandfather, Lakulish, an incarnation of Shiva. Dadaji was Swami Kripalu’s guru, a fully spiritual being, specifically known as Lakulish, the 28th and last incarnation of Shiva.
Bapuji = literally in Sanskrit “beloved father.” In our tradition, this refers to Yogi Amrit Desai’s guru, Swami Kripalu. Kripalu means “compassion” in Sanskrit, and this was a shortened and affectionate variation of Shri Kripalvananda.
Gurudev = literally in Sanskrit “beloved or dear teacher.” In our tradition, this refers to Yogi Amrit Desai.
Mataji = literally in Sanskrit “beloved mother.” In our tradition, we are referring to Amrit Desai’s wife, Urmilla Desai, who was also a disciple of Bapuji.
Bhagwan = literally in Gujarati “source / spirit / the universal divine.” This word is similar to the Sanskrit word “Bhagavan” that is more well-known. Bhagwan is the same word in the Gujarat dialect.
Most often, we will offer:
Jai Bhagwan!
Which is similar to Namaste and Sat Nam in other traditions.
Most of our instructors have been trained in the I AM Yoga lineage.
I AM = Integrative Amrit Method
Many of us have spent hours with Gurudev Amrit Desai, Yogeshwari Kamini Desai, and many of the senior teachers in the Amrit / I AM Yoga tradition.
Each in our own way has somehow been directly connected to Lineage of Light. We connect through our Senior Teachers and the I AM Yoga community, to Gurudev Amrit Desai, to his teacher Swami Kripalu, and to Kripalu’s guru Dadaji, who is understood to be a fully spiritual being.
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