About Dan Matejic

My path to Classical Hatha Yoga began on the meditation mat — not the yoga mat. After I was initiated into Inner Engineering with Sadhguru, I found I simply couldn't sit. Holding Ardha Siddhasana, cross-legged on the floor, long enough to meditate was beyond me. So I went looking for yoga taught the way it was meant to be — by the Sadhguru Gurukulam.

That search led me to Angamardana, Surya Kriya and Bhuta Shuddhi. Then a video of Bhava Spandana caught hold of me and wouldn't let go. I flew to Tennessee for the four-day program — and it remains the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced. Something opened in me that I couldn't un-know. I had to go to the source.

So I worked two jobs and saved for two years to earn my place in a 21-week intensive training in India. We ate, breathed and lived yoga — walking barefoot, eating with our hands, visiting the sacred places where this practice was born. The ashram was magical and deeply supportive, and what we did there was beyond any limit I'd known back home in Mississauga. I arrived as a Canadian and, very quickly, became simply a living being in an ancient place. I had gone searching for something, only to discover on returning home that it had been inside me all along.

My work now is to transmit what was given to me: a practice passed down, unbroken, for thousands of years — a technology of transformation. The way in is the only way out of the patterns that hold us, and it is within our power to break the karmic grip. I choose joy and depth over money and distraction. That is what I offer here in Mississauga and across the GTA — Classical Hatha Yoga, taught the way it was always meant to be.