Trishna Horvath

Trishna Horvath traveled to Bali in 1987 (at age 20) to study mask dance with I.B. Anom. She was inspired to share the experience of immersion in a culture through the study of a specific art, and returned in less than a year with a group of ten students participating in a three week immersion. Since then, periodically she has created traditional arts immersions, and in recent years has rededicated her attention to that.

She has a passion for discovering the ‘yoga’ or integrating force in dance, music, and art, and as well the intrinsic artistry in the life discipline of yoga.

Trishna began teaching yoga in 1998. In the ten years previous to that she traveled often in Asia, studying mask dance in Bali, Traditional Thai Massage with The Sunshine Network and Master Pichet Boonthume in Thailand, and Yoga with Saras Kumar Binjola in India. Her approach to yoga is greatly inspired by her ongoing study of  Sanskrit based philosophy. She enjoys incorporating esoteric information and practices into a Hatha Yoga format. Modern and ethnic dance, as well as years studying physical theater technique also influence her teaching style.

Trishna calls her practice “Being Yoga” and since 2002 has added yoga retreats to her travel offerings. She has taught classes, workshops and retreats in Thailand, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Turkey, Greece, and throughout California. Since 1998 she has provided a regular schedule of classes in West Marin and now San Francisco.
Trishna is excited to share the opportunity that Hatha Yoga offers: to realize the self as Yoga. Union. Contingency. Wholeness which is nourished by and nourishing to… the greater whole.

In the Fall of 2005, Trishna spent time in Nepal immersed in a rich introduction to Charya Nritya, a Newar Buddhist mudra dance meditation. This dance and song practice and its related sadhana has become for her a way to learn about Himalayan Buddhism. She is grateful for her teachers in this form; Ritu Bajracharya, Kanaiya Shakya and for guidance from 1994 until 2016 with Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya.
In 2009, Trishna took a three month sabbatical in India, and while in Varanasi, studied Indian devotional singing at the Academy of Music founded by Pandit Shivnath Mishra and Deobrat Mishra. In 2012, She enjoyed a month of Khalbelia Dance study with Raki Khalbelia, in Pushkar, India.

Trishna has held retreats in California, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, and Turkey, and Greece.

What students say:

“Yoga with Trishna has helped me find compassion for myself and those around me by creating flexibility in my mind, body, and heart”. ~ Sandra W.

“I have attended retreats in the Healing arts, Yoga, and Taijiwuqiguan around the world with master teachers. Trishna is a very unique teacher. Her passion for the science of yoga and her dedication to knowing her Self grant her an outstanding opportunity to lead students to the inner yoga. She has always invited me to witness my own process and to neither go further nor fall short of where I am in the very moment. I have attended two of her retreats and left a far stronger woman than when I arrived… I cannot say enough about her ability to work with people of varying levels of practice and meet each fully. I feel she has a living practice that she is able to impart as well as other master teachers I have worked with and she offers it with a grace and humility that is very refreshing. I look forward to my next retreat with her. ~ Amelia N.