Shyam Ranganathan, MA, MA, PhD, E-RYT, DE&I Advisor (he/him/his)
Your co-instructor
Dr. Shyam Ranganathan is a member of the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, and the York Center for Asian Research. Dr. Ranganathan is also a DE&I consultant for small and large scale organizations. Shyam is unique in the Yoga world as he is both a trained philosopher and scholar of yoga and South Asia. He is a field changing researcher, who has spent the last two decades identifying and treating problems of cultural appropriation in the academy. He is translator and commentator of Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra (Penguin 2008), editor of two scholarly volumes, author of two monographs, and over 50 peer-reviewed, yoga related articles. Shyam is an experienced teacher of students of various degrees of exposure to philosophy and yoga, with over 20000 hours of teaching experience, and over 4000 students to date. Shyam holds an MA in South Asian Studies, an MA and PhD in philosophy, and is a CYA-E-RYTGOLD yoga teacher (over 1000 hours training). He is also founder of YogaPhilosophy.Com, the first yoga philosophy education school run by a professional philosopher and scholar of yoga---and has formed the first certification program for Yoga Philosophy that meets the standards of professional philosophy instruction. Follow Shyam on IG @yogaphilosophy_com.