About
Brani discovered yoga in 2006 after graduating from an MFA program and embarking on a hectic career as a self-employed costume and fashion designer and technician. The yoga spell was cast, and she’s been practicing daily ever since.
Ten years into steady vinyasa practice,Brani completed her first 200 hr YTT at the Karuna Yoga School in Chicago with Amber Cook and upon graduating she began teaching vinyasa yoga at the Magura Bulgarian Cultural Center in Chicago until relocating to New Orleans in 2017.
Branimira found the Ashtanga yoga path in 2016 with Todd Boman in Chicago, and hasn’t looked back. Learning and practicing the Primary Series kept her grounded, focused and centered when work took her traveling around the world for most of 2016, 2017, and 2018.
In early 2018, Brani found her way to Ashtanga Yoga Room and Melanie Fawer, by 2019 she began assisting and apprenticing with Melanie in Mysore classes. An enthusiastic learner and practitioner she’s completed multiple trainings and workshops such as a mothlong teacher intensive with Richard Freeman and Mary Tailor in Boulder in 2022, as well as 2 weeks Yoga Primer in 2020, a weeklong intensive in 2019. In 2020 and 2021 she focused on online yoga study: philosophy, anatomy, asana, pranayama, meditation, chanting, and sanskrit as well as teaching.
Brani continues to expand her exploration and study on the vast subject of yoga and its application to life off the mat. Passionate about passing the yoga knowledge and practice forward, presently she is teaching public classes at Ashtanga Yoga Room (Mysore and Led), and vinyasa at Franco’s on Magazine in New Orleans.
Classes
Note: classes will be suspended from 7/10/23 to 8/20/23
Ashtanga Mysore & Led:
Monday Mysore: 7:30am to 9:30am
Wednesday Mysore: 7:30am to 9:30am
Thursday Mysore: 7:30am to 9:30am
Sunday Led Primary: 10am to 11:45am
AYR: 2521 Jena Street, The Second Floor
Contact Info
773-405-2287 or branimira.i@gmail.com
Social Media: IG @ashtangayogaroom
