Dharma Mittra

In 1964, he left the Brazilian Air Force and moved to New York City, to study under his new guru, Swami Kailashananda, known in America as Yogi Gupta.

After intensive study of Ashtanga and Karma Yoga, in 1966 he was accepted and initiated as a sannyasi (one who renounces the world in order to realize God).

Dharma began teaching in 1967, after spending a decade as a full-time yogi and brahmachari (a celibate religious student who lives with his teacher and devotes himself to the practice of spiritual disciplines).

A celebrated teacher at his guru's ashram, he left in 1975 and founded the Dharma Yoga Center in New York City.

In 2006, he released an instructional Yoga video series entitled Maha Sadhana: The Great Practice.