Lama Marut - South Lake Tahoe Retreat
How Yoga Works

Septemeber 12-14th

Spend three days with Lama Marut in South Lake Tahoe, learning how yoga can help bring more happiness to your life.

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(Brian K. Smith) has been teaching Asian Classics Institute courses, guided meditations, and informal talks and workshops in Tibetan Buddhism in Los Angeles, Tucson, New York, Ireland, Canada, and elsewhere since 2000.

He is the founder and spiritual director of the Asian Classics Institute, Los Angeles (www.aci-la.org), and is also a founding Board member and currently president of the Yoga Studies Institute (www.yogastudiesinstitute.org).

As a YSI staff teacher, he teaches courses in yoga philosophy around the world. He is on the faculty of Diamond Mountain University in Arizona (www.diamondmtn.org) as a professor of Sanskrit and Buddhism, and also has taught courses for Loyola Marymount University’s Yoga Philosophy Program.

Ven. Marut is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 1984, where he studied with Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, and other world-renown scholars of Indian and Comparative Religions. He taught courses in Indian, Eastern, and Comparative Religion for over twenty years — first at Barnard College, Columbia University, and then as a tenured Professor at the University of California, Riverside – before retiring in 2004. He has spent several years in India studying and is the author of two books based on ancient Sanskrit materials (published with Oxford University Press), many articles (academic, as well as popular pieces for encyclopedias), and is the co-translator of a Sanskrit law book, THE LAWS OF MANU (published by Penguin).

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