Hanna House Gilan

Hanna House Gilan has completed three yoga teacher-training certifications and hundreds of hours in workshops and intensives with teachers John Friend, Ana Forest, Sharon Ganon, David Life, and Tias Little. Her certifications include a 200 hour hatha yoga certification with emphasis on bhakti and the teachings of Yogananda, a 200 hour yoga and aryuveda certification emphasizing integration of aryuvedic principles and dosha specificity into asana instruction, and most recently a 100 hour certification at Sacred Movement under the direction of her primary teachers Max Strom, Saul David Raye, and Shiva Rea.  Hanna has served as a class assistant for Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, and for Taoist yoga with Matthew Cohen.  In addition to assisting in class Hanna served as the assistant for Shiva Rea’s 2004 Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training.

Hanna draws from her Native American roots in wholism and her formal education in physiology, biology and ecology. Oneida and a member of the Bear Clan Hanna draws from the culture and ceremony of the longhouse as well as 10 years of experience as a tribal herbalist, midwifes assistant, and cultural writer and educator.  Hanna has further studied the harmonious cycles of living, earning a bachelor of science in human physiology and a masters of science in Watershed Management.  She has applied these studies to work in sustainability both for the Oneida and other tribes in the Great Lakes Region.

Hanna teaches a heart centered vinyasa based class utilizing krama (stages) and dynamic sequencing of postures and breathwork.  With emphasis on deeper alignment and integration of body, mind, and spirit the class invites challenge, exploration, stillness, harmony, and the deeper work of transformation.