About Tanya

Tanya Kaps has dedicated her life to the path of Yoga and Self inquiry. She is a Yoga Vedanta and Kundalini Tantra teacher with over 25 years of practice, study, teaching.  She also has an academic background in Integrated Science and Transpersonal Psychology.

After 10 years of teaching asana (HATHA: Hot, Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin, Power) pranayama and meditation, Tanya met her revered Vedanta Guru Swami Vagishanda. She sat with him for 12 years, during which time he initiated her into teaching Advaita Vedanta (Oneness). Also during this time she experienced a Kundalini awakening which took years to integrate through practical tools and understanding and primarily through loving Surrender. It has become her passion to support sincere students through a natural, gradual spiritual awakening process.

While Tanya does offer single classes at The Yoga Barn, she focuses most of her time offering long-format programs (live immersive at Yoga Barn and online) to bring forth deep and lasting shifts in people’s lives. These programs are rooted in the knowledge and practices of the traditional systems of Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga (Yoga of Selfless Action) Samadhi Yoga ( the yoga disciplines ex. meditation), Kundalini Tantra and Jnana Yoga (Yoga of Self Knowledge / Advaita Vedanta), as well as Ayurveda (Knowledge of Life/Healing). 

Tanya offers an embodied and technical understanding of the stages and stages of the spiritual awakening process and offers the appropriate guidance to meet students where they are and skillfully, lovingly guide them forward. Bridging both science and spirituality, the traditional and modern, the universal and the personal; Tanya brings a warm and loving presence to support her students in skillfully engaging with yoga as a spiritual practice to reveal the essence of who we are: already whole, already holy, already free.