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John Friend (born May 30, 1959)[1] is an American yoga teacher and creator of Anusara Yoga. Early life and careerFriend first learned of yoga at the age of 8 in Youngstown, Ohio when his mother, Ann Friend, read him stories of yogis with hidden knowledge and supernatural powers. By age 13, he began studying yoga philosophy with the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, and also began an asana practice by following Swami Satchidananda's book Integral Hatha Yoga. At 17, Friend began a regular practice of sitting meditation with a Sufi group as well as members of the Theosophical Society. At age 19 he moved to Houston, Texas where he studied various styles of hatha yoga including Ananda Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga. He also began teaching yoga part-time while working as a financial analyst. In 1984, Friend began practicing the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Primary Series and, in 1986, quit his analyst job to teach yoga full-time. In 1987, Friend graduated to Secondary Series while studying with Ashtanga founder K. Pattabhi Jois in California where he also studied with Iyengar Yoga teacher Judith Lasater. That same year, Friend attended an Iyengar Yoga convention in Boston, where he met B.K.S. Iyengar, after which Friend focused his studies and practice mainly in Iyengar Yoga. Between 1990 and 1995, John earned Iyengar's Introductory and Junior Intermediate teaching certificates and also served on the Board of Directors for the Iyengar Yoga National Association before departing in 1997 to found Anusara Yoga.[1][2] Anusara Yoga{{Main|Anusara Yoga}}Friend set up Anusara as a style of hatha yoga founded on a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness and based on bio mechanical principles of alignment. Friend derived the name Anusara as meaning 'flowing with Grace,' 'flowing with Nature' and 'following your heart,'" as interpreted from the Sanskrit {{IAST|anusāra}}, meaning "custom, usage, natural state or condition". Founded on Iyengar's system of alignment, Friend streamlined everything into five "Universal Principles of Alignment", which corresponded to other quinary aspects of the world, such as the five elements, five regular polygons, five fingers on the hand, and so on. Friend also developed refinements to his quinary system, which included what he called "the Three A's of Anusara" (attitude, alignment and action), seven energy loops that comprise the human body, and various cues to assist in teaching. Anusara's philosophical system drew from Friend's knowledge in Indian schools of thought, including Samkhya, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, and non-dual Hindu Tantric schools, particularly non-dual Shaivism, which he refers to as Shiva-Shakti Tantra. Friend also incorporates his other studies, such as Taoism, Sufism, Kabbalah, Theosophy, Wicca, quantum physics, sacred geometry, and western psychology.[3] 2012 scandalIn February 2012, an anonymous tipster published accusations on jfexposed.com (short for "John Friend exposed"), which later appeared on the blog YogaDork.[4] These allegations of mismanagement and abuse were later reported on at length in an article in The Washington Post.[5] The four key accusations against Friend were:
Exit from AnusaraFriend announced in March 2012 that he would step down from the leadership, while retaining the sole ownership, of Anusara Yoga to take a short leave of absence to consider his next steps in the yoga community.[10] In September 2012, Friend returned to teaching, offering a set hatha yoga sequence of 54 asanas called "The Roots", originally created by Desi and Micah Springer, owners of Vital Yoga in Denver, CO. In 2013, Friend and Desi Springer co-founded Sridaiva with and rebranded their postural alignment method as "The Bowspring." Sridaiva and BowspringIn 2013, John Friend began working with Colorado-based yoga teaching sisters Desi and Micah Springer to help systematize a yoga methodology they had developed.[11] Originally called "The Roots" practice,[12] the yoga system was rebranded in 2013 as Sridaiva (श्रदेव, Sanskrit for "divine destiny")[11] as coupled with an alignment methodology called Bowspring.[13] Friend teaches the Bowspring method at Vital Yoga Studio as well as on international teaching tours with Springer.[14] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.anusara.com/?pagerequested=about_john_friend|title=About John Friend}} {{Modern yoga}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Friend, John}}2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25Yoga-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all|title=The Yoga Mogul (NY Times) | work=The New York Times | first=Mimi|last=Swartz|date=July 21, 2010}} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Friend|first=John|title=Yoga Education|url=http://www.johnfriend.com/yoga-education/|work=About John Friend|publisher=johnfriend.com|accessdate=6 November 2012}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|last=Dork|first=Yoga|title=John Friend, Head of Anusara: The Accusations|url=http://www.yogadork.com/news/john-friend-head-of-anusara-wiccan-leader-sexual-deviant-pension-withholding-homewrecker-the-accusations|work=YogaDork|accessdate=15 February 2012}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite news | last = Roig-Franzia | first = Manuel | title = Scandal contorts future of John Friend, Anusara yoga | work = Washington Post | date = 29 March 2012 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scandal-contorts-future-of-john-friend-anusara-yoga/2012/03/28/gIQAeLVThS_story.html?hpid=z2 | accessdate = 29 March 2012 }} 6. ^{{cite web|last=Pitzl-Waters|first=Jason|title=Details of John Friend’s "Blazing Solar Flames" Coven Emerge|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2012/04/details-of-john-friends-blazing-solar-flames-coven-emerge.html/|publisher=Patheos|accessdate=16 April 2012}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Waylon|title=My Interview with John Friend Regarding jfexposed Accusations|url=http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/my-interview-with-john-friend-regarding-ijfexposedi-accusations|publisher=Elephant Journal|accessdate=15 February 2012}} 8. ^{{cite web|last=Dork|first=Yoga|title=Anusara Pension Documents and Timeline|url=http://www.yogadork.com/news/anusara-pension-documents-and-timeline/|publisher=Yogadork|accessdate=13 February 2012}} 9. ^{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Waylon|title=John Friend: Pension Documents|url=http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/john-friend-pension-documents/|publisher=Elephant Journal|accessdate=13 February 2012}} 10. ^{{cite web|last=Mom|first = Chicago|title=John Friend Steps Down as Anusara Yoga Leader|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/ups-and-downs-of-a-yoga-mom/2012/02/john-friend-steps-down-as-anusara-yoga-leader/|publisher=ChicagoMom|accessdate=17 February 2012}} 11. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Warner|first1=Joel|title=Fallen yoga guru John Friend goes to the mat with a new technique|url=http://www.westword.com/news/fallen-yoga-guru-john-friend-goes-to-the-mat-with-a-new-technique-5123079|accessdate=29 December 2017|work=Westword|date=9 January 2014}} 12. ^{{cite web|last1=YJ Editors|title=The Return of John Friend|url=https://www.yogajournal.com/blog/the-return-of-john-friend|website=Yoga Journal|language=en|date=September 12, 2012}} 13. ^{{cite news|last1=Pizer|first1=Ann|title=Sridaiva Yoga and Bowspring Alignment|url=https://www.verywell.com/sridaiva-yoga-and-bowspring-alignment-3566896|accessdate=29 December 2017|work=Verywell|date=March 17, 2017}} 14. ^{{Cite web|url=https://tintyoga.com/yogis/desi-springer-john-friend/|title=Online Training with Desi Springer & John Friend {{!}} TINT. Yoga|website=tintyoga.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-22}} 6 : 1959 births|American yoga teachers|Educators from Ohio|Living people|People from Youngstown, Ohio|Sacred geometry |
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