WILL NAGEL
Before becoming certified to teach yoga, Will was a musician and worked for years in artistic management and publicity (music and dance). He has been a string orchestra teacher, chamber musician, private cello instructor, cook, translator, event manager, assistant cheese-monger, and so on. As a teenager Will began deepening his yogic studies with Yoga Nidra and Meditation instruction from Swami Dharmakeerti Saraswati, in the tradition of her guru Swami Satyananda Saraswati. In a pick-up truck in a YWCA parking lot in Youngstown, Ohio, she asked him, “Willy, when are you coming home to India?” She then helped him find his path at the age of 20 to the feet of his guru, Yogi Ram Surat Kumar. She continues to be a mentor and a guide and a friend. Will is a devoted student of Sri Dharma Mittra. His teaching style focuses on Energy and Awareness and keeping a smile in the effort.