Darren Rhodes
American yoga teacher and author (born 1971)
Darren Rhodes is a teacher of yoga as exercise. He was a leading figure within Anusara Yoga, in 2012 moving to run his own business, YogaOasis, after the downfall of Anusara's founder John Friend. He is widely known for his appearance in 345 yoga asanas in Anusara's 2004 poster Penchant for Practice. He has been praised for the excellence of his yoga teaching, and for the clarity of his instructions in his book Yoga Resource Practice Manual.
Life
Darren Rhodes started practising yoga as a child. He was diagnosed with a side-to-side spinal curvature (a scoliosis) in his teens; he was usually in pain with it. Years of yoga practice slowly diminished the severity of the condition. When in his early 20s he met the founder of Anusara Yoga, John Friend. He describes the experience as inspiring him to transform his practice of yoga into "a radical, rockin' life celebration". He states that his yoga is influenced by Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Vinyasa Yoga.
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