Vive Kan

Vivekan is the founder and director of Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Bodhisattva Yoga. For 3 years, he practiced (hatha) yoga solely at home -- with only a book as a guide -- before he ever ventured out to explore yoga in a class. Upon doing so, he tried many of the presentations of yoga available in the budding New York yoga scene of the mid-to-late 1990’s. For his certification, he chose to immerse himself in the Classical School of Indian Yoga, under a direct disciple of Swami Satchidananda.Subsequently, Vivekan began a teaching career at a much more accelerated rate than the vast majority of teachers. Although he moonlighted as a yoga teacher prior to certification, Vivekan taught full-time (+ weekends) – as his sole livelihood – shortly after receiving his certification. By the end of 2002, he had already amassed over 5,000(!) teaching hours — less than four years after his certification.Vivekan attributes this amount of teaching experience (along with his continued