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Bryan Kest is a prominent American yoga teacher. He is recognized as a creator of Power Yoga, and is the founder of Santa Monica Power Yoga, based in Santa Monica, California. He has led yoga classes, retreats and workshops worldwide,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://poweryogaondemand.com/workshops_retreats.aspx )〕 and has been credited with pioneering the practice of donation-based yoga in the United States. Kest was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. He began practicing yoga in 1979, at the insistence of his father, a physician.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.layogamagazine.com/issue4/departments/teacher_profile_bryan_kest.htm )〕 While still a teenager, Kest studied in Hawaii with David Williams, who brought Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ashtanga.com. )〕 from India to the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ashtangayogi.com/HTML/biog.html )〕 In 1983, Kest traveled to Mysore, India, to study with K. Pattabhi Jois, the founder of the Ashtanga system of yoga.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kpjayi.org/ )〕 Kest remained in Mysore for a year before he returned to the United States, moving to Los Angeles, California, where he studied holistic health and nutrition at Ryokan College. Additionally, Kest was a yoga therapist at Esteem, a Santa Monica treatment center for people with eating disorders. Kest began teaching in Los Angeles in 1985, and founded Santa Monica Power Yoga in 1995. Kest incorporates meditation into his teaching and his teacher training, and has studied Vipassanā meditation with S.N. Goenka. Kest’s philosophy regarding donation-based classes is based partially on the principles of Vipassana meditation. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryan Kest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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