Meet Devarshi Steven Hartman

Devarshi Steven Hartman, ERYT, Founder of Pranotthan Yoga School, former dean of
the Kripalu School of Yoga and former Director of Professional Trainings at Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health.  Devarshi has been a yoga student and teacher for over 50
years and is a former longtime Kripalu Ashram resident where he lived for nearly a
decade living studying and teaching yoga. Devarshi latest book The Three Essentials:
Timeless Yogic Principles for Inner Peace and Self-Transformation comes out August
19 th . He is the creator of two best-selling audio series The Essence of the Bhagavad
Gita, and Satori – Simple Secrets to Inner Peace produced by Nightingale-Conant. 

Devarshi leads workshops and retreats around the country, teaches Pranotthan Yoga
Teacher Trainings at the 200-hour, 500-hour and advanced levels. Devarshi has studied
and trained with almost every leading yoga teacher in the country and world due to his
position at Kripalu, where the best of the best, came to him. He is the founder of The
Acharya Intensive – a 12-person yearlong transformational program.  He is the creator
of the PranaKosha Facilitation Methodology for personal transformation and trauma
recovery.  His most recent years have been dedicated to bringing yoga and mindfulness
tools to the realm of drug and alcohol addiction. He currently resides in Hawaii half the
year and New Hampshire in the summer and teaches at Ram Das’s former residence –
Hanuman Maui.