Practitioners

Peggy Kelley, Director of Austin Yoga Institute and Austin Yogaveda, is certified to teach the Iyengar method of Hatha Yoga, and is a teacher trainer and assessor in the Iyengar community. She taught Yoga first in Canada and then in Austin after moving here in 1976 Her love of Ayurveda dates to her first trip to India to study with Geeta Iyengar in 1989. Geeta is an Ayurvedic doctor, as well as a Yoga teacher in the tradition of her father, B.K.S. Iyengar.

Peggy opened the Austin Yoga Institute in 1992, and began studying Ayurveda soon thereafter. She studied first in North Carolina with Swamini Maya Tiwara, then with David Frawley, and finally with the Ayurvedic doctors on the faculty of the American Institute of Ayurveda, which certified her as an Ayurvedic practiitoner in 2003.

Patti Gagne teaches yoga all around Austin -- at the Hills, at Austin Yoga Institute, at Bodhi Yoga, at Austin Community College, and formerly for the University of Texas' Informal classes. She hopes to bring an open heart and the joy in her work and in everyone else's accomplishments to her practice at Austin Yogaveda. She is also a registered massage therapist and is about to complete Iyengar yoga teacher training at the Austin Yoga Institute.