Kranti was born in Italy under the sign of cancer in 1970, the year of the dog in the Chinese horoscope. Since he was a child, he had an instinctive urge for expansion and growth. His interest in the human mind and self-inquiry started after reading his first book on meditation written by Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) at age Fourteen. Kranti became interested in yoga while traveling through India in 1991, and a few years later he started to develop a daily practice. In 1996 he took a one-year-long teacher training in Milan with Carlo Patrian, one of the yoga pioneers in Italy.

A few years later, Kranti was introduced to the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system while in Berlin and fell in love with this practice. Although Kranti complements his yoga experience with the Iyengar method and free flow Hatha Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga has become his daily practice and passion. For the four following years, Kranti stayed in Copenhagen teaching Ashtanga and Hatha Vinyasa. He taught different yoga enthusiasts, dancers, actors, and athletes, and one of his regular students was the Princess of Denmark Mary Donaldson.

In 2002, Kranti attended a workshop with Richard Freeman in Paris. Deeply inspired by Richard’s versatile and open approach to yoga and yoga philosophy, Kranti traveled to Boulder, Colorado, the following year for a one-month intensive teacher training with Richard. The experience further deepened Kranti’s understanding of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system, meditation, and philosophy.

In 2004, Kranti completed a two-month-long teacher training with Maty Ezraty and Lisa Walford at Yogaworks in Los Angeles. He also attended, that same year, the course in Yoga Therapy at the Yoga Biomedical Trust of London, England. He worked with students with heart disease and was moved by the powerful healing aspect of yoga as a complementary alternative therapy.

Kranti received the authorization to teach Ashtanga Yoga from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2008. He is also a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance (RYT and E-RYT 200 hours), and he completed the Yin Toga Teacher Training with Sarah Powers.

Kranti studies routinely under the guidance of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore, India, since 2005. He also traveled extensively to practice with international yoga teachers including Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty, Mark Darby, Louise Ellis, Rolf Naujokat, Lino Miele, and Noah Williams. Under the guidance of these teachers (all certified by the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute), Kranti has completed the advanced A, or third series, of the Ashtanga system.

Kranti’s classes are dynamic and challenging, with a focus on maintaining softness and ease through body-mind awareness. Kranti is always reminding students to keep smiles on their faces! He hopes to help guide them into tapping into their own true potentials.

Before teaching yoga, Kranti held different jobs, including massage therapy, social work (with the elderly and HIV positive patients), and volunteering at a clinic for autistic children in his hometown, Milan, Italy.

He says: “Only the person who risks in life is truly free.”

Kranti’s Website: www.krantivira.com