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Yogacharini Jnanasundari ( Janita Stenhouse )
Date of birth: 20 May 1947
Nationality: British
Childhood experiences of sahaja samadhi in rural New Zealand led Janita in her teenage years to a study of Indian philosophy. At age 20 she started practising hatha yoga while studying Art & Design at Liverpool (UK).
She lived for 3 years in Varanasi where she studied Hindi and Indian classical music. Back in UK she studied hatha yoga with Lakshmi Waters, who encouraged her to study with Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri, and to become a teacher. Janita has also studied with Sri Mahesh and senior students of several renowned teachers such as BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar, as well as Yoga therapy with Dr. Robin Munro (Yoga Biomedical Trust), par ticularly Yoga for Lower Back Pain.
She is the author of 3 books :
- Sun Yoga: the Book of sûrya namaskâr
- Morning Yoga Evening Yoga
- The Polair Illustrated Yoga Dictionary
She is also the author of many articles on Yoga and two cartoon series (the Metamorphosis of âsana to samâdhi; the World According to Yogi Beher) which have been published in Yoga magazines in the UK, France and Australia.
She is a mother and grandmother, and now lives in central France where, with over 45 years of Yoga practice and more than a quarter century of teaching Yoga, she teaches locally, nationally and internationally.
She has spent several periods at ICYER as a student, as well as in her present role of teacher and has been awarded the Yoga Chemmal Award in 2011.