Trishna Horvath traveled to Bali in 1987 (at age 20) to study mask dance with I.B. Anom. She was inspired to share the experience of immersion in a culture through the study of a specific art and returned in less than a year with a group of ten students participating in a three week immersion. Since then, periodically she has created traditional arts immersions, and in recent years has rededicated her attention to that.
She has a passion for discovering the ‘yoga’ or integrating force in dance, music, and art, and as well the intrinsic artistry in the life discipline of yoga.
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Trishna began teaching yoga in 1998. In the ten years previous to that she traveled often in Asia, studying mask dance in Bali, Traditional Thai Massage with The Sunshine Network and Master Pichet Boonthume in Thailand, and Yoga with Saras Kumar Binjola in India. Her approach to yoga is greatly inspired by her ongoing study of Sanskrit based philosophy. She enjoys incorporating esoteric information and practices into a Hatha Yoga format. Modern and ethnic dance, as well as years studying physical theater technique also influence her teaching style.
Trishna calls her practice “Being Yoga” and since 2002 has added yoga retreats to her travel offerings. She has taught classes, workshops and retreats in Thailand, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Turkey, Greece, and throughout California.
Since 1998, she has provided Community classes and private instruction in the San Francisco Bay Area and West Marin where she primarily resides.
Trishna is excited to share the opportunity that Hatha Yoga offers: to realize the self as Yoga. Union. Contingency. Wholeness which is nourished by and nourishing to the greater whole.
As well as partaking of the rich dance and song study opportunities that abound in the Bay Area, Trishna seeks out the chance to learn when she is traveling. Topeng dance with Ida Bagus Anom and then with Pak Ketut Madra in Indonesia were her first explorations in traditional arts immersion.
She spent time in Nepal immersed in a rich introduction to Charya Nritya, a Newar Buddhist mudra dance meditation. Years studying these dance and song practices and their related sadhanas was an interesting way to be introduced to Himalayan Buddhist practice.
Trishna took a three month sabbatical in India, and while in Varanasi, studied Indian devotional singing at the Academy of Music founded by Pandit Shivnath Mishra and Deobrat Mishra.
She enjoyed a month of Khalbelia Dance study with Raki Khalbelia, in Pushkar, India.
She is studying and practicing in a more focused way on a Tibetan Buddhist Path since 2016, feeling very fortunate to find herself learning with abundantly wise and compassionate teachers, especially Anam Thubten, at Dhumatala Temple in Point Richmond California.