Full Circle Yoga Institute is located in San Diego and teaches yoga in the Iyengar tradition. Founded in 1972 by Aman’s brother, Pujari (Ed) Keays, he was a black belt in kempo karate and was interested in yoga. He had a couple of yoga teachers and then heard about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and left for India to find out what he was about. While he was in Pune, India, he also heard about this incredible yoga teacher, Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. He began to study with Mr. Iyengar daily. When he returned to San Diego, Pujari began to teach yoga in the same way that Mr. Iyengar taught. He called his yoga studio the Rajneesh Yoga Institute.

In 1979, Pujari and his wife Abhilasha decided to open a bookstore with the yoga studio and changed the name of the business to Full Circle Bookstore and Yoga Institute. Aman bought the studio and bookstore from Pujari and Abhilasha in 1983. He and Sunny expanded and updated the yoga studio and changed the name to Full Circle Yoga Institute. The studio still carries books catering to the study of yoga and meditation.

Aman’s first yoga teacher was his brother Pujari and Mary Dunn at the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Diego (in Ocean Beach). A couple of months after buying Full Circle Yoga Institute, Aman went to India to study with and meet Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. It was an instant connection for him. Mr. Iyengar was so inspiring as a teacher and as a person. After his return from India he went about studying very diligently with Mary Dunn to become a teacher of yoga. His study of yoga included others students of Sri B.K.S. Iyengar as his teachers in addition to Mary Dunn. Every Iyengar teacher that came through San Diego and the United States, he studied with. But it was his daily practice and study with his local teacher that had the greatest influence in addition to Pujari and Mr. Iyengar himself.

Several trips to India and visits of Mr. Iyengar to the United States later leads us to today.

Sunny became a student of Iyengar yoga after trying other methods of yoga and experiencing this method to be precise and clear. She was also very taken by Mr. Iyengar’s book "Light on Yoga". Her first exposure was in Nebraska in 1978. She moved to San Diego in 1980 and looked for an Iyengar teacher, and found Aman’s brother Pujari just a 1/4 mile away.

She started classes regularly with Pujari at the Yoga Institute and with Mary Dunn at the B.K.S. Iyengar Studio in Ocean Beach.

She also took two trips to India and fell in love with the teachings of Mr. Iyengar and his daughter Geeta.

Certification began in the late 80’s by Mr. Iyengar. We have been his students since 1979 when we first began yoga in the tradition in which he taught.

We are presently certified by him as Jr. Intermediate Teachers.

The Iyengars have been our teachers since 1979. They have inspired our practice since then and continue to do so. Our hope for clients who come to Full Circle for yoga classes that their lives will also be inspired by the yoga practice.

The Full Circle Yoga Institute represents many years of yoga practice as well as many years of meditation practice – active and silent. We are also grateful for the influence and guidance over the past 7 years from Charlotte Joko Beck at the San Diego Zen Center.

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Aman

Director of Full Circle Yoga Institute with his wife, Sunny, since 1983. Aman has been studying and practicing yoga for 25 years and teaching for 20. He was very fortunate to begin his studies of yoga in the Iyengar tradition with his brother Pujari and with Mary Dunn, one of Mr. Iyengar’s Sr. teachers.

He has travelled to India 4 times to study with the Iyengars and has been a certified Iyengar teacher since Mr. Iyengar established teacher certification requirements. He presently holds a Jr. Intermediate level certificate.

Aman has also studied and practiced meditation since 1983. The past seven years he has worked with Charlotte Joko Beck at the San Diego Zen Center, who has been a great inspiration in understanding what practice is.

Combining yoga and meditation practices, Aman has been leading silent and yoga 3 – 5 day retreats in and out of the San Diego area for the past ten years. These retreats have been offered twice a year with Aman doing the teaching and Sunny the vegetarian cooking.

It is Aman’s wish that through his practices and experience he can be of some help to others on their path.

Sunny

Director of Full Circle Yoga Institute with her husband, Aman, since 1983. Sunny has been practicing and studying for 25 years and teaching for 15.

She has traveled twice to India and fell in love with the Iyengars and their teachings her first visit. Sunny also received her Iyengar Certification in the beginning of Iyengar tradition requirements and now holds a Jr. Intermediate Certificate.

Sunny has been involved in meditation practice for years and has been studying at the San Diego Zen Center with Charlotte Joko Beck the past 5 years.

In addition to her work and teaching at Full Circle Yoga Institute, Sunny has been the sole vegetarian cook for yoga and meditation retreats that Aman and Sunny have presented for the past 10 years.

It is Sunny’s wish that she may impart to students an appreciation and love through practical experience just how powerful yoga can effect our life.

Marguerite (Diksha)

Marguerite has completed three certified yoga teacher trainings over the past 29 years. Her approach favors the Iyengar style in the use of props and attention to alignment and detail. In addition, she emphasizes the conscious use of breath to facilitate the natural opening of the body.

Marguerite holds a B.S. degree in Nutrition and feels blessed to be doing what she loves, teaching Yoga and Pilates along with providing nutrition classes and consultations.

Contact Marguerite at the Better Life Institute
(619) 563-8301.

Leslie

Leslie began the practice of Iyengar yoga with Sunny Keays in 1998. She is certified at the Intermediate Junior I level.

Leslie sees the practice of yoga as an accessible, highly effective way to cultivate the body and the mind, and consequently, to bring us into contact with our spiritual nature.
Dena

Dena became a dedicated student to the Iyengar style of Yoga in 1990.  She completed a 2-year intensive teacher-training program in 2000 and began teaching the same year. 

She has a lot of enthusiasm for the practice and enjoys teaching students something that has been so enriching to her life.  She is dedicated to continuing her education on the therapeutics of Iyengar Yoga as well as helping students to have a strong, healthy, balanced body and mind.

 Jenny

Jenny began taking classes at the Full Circle Yoga Institute in 1988. Since then, she has been a dedicated student of the yoga system of Sri B.K.S.
Iyengar, and has travelled to Pune, India, where she spent two months studying with Geeta and Prashant Iyengar. She completed a three year teacher training course, and became a certified Iyengar yoga instructor in 1998. For the past five years she has taught yoga for the San Dieguito Adult School, and she is also a substitute teacher at several yoga centers in the San Diego area.

In her teaching, Jenny feels inspired to share with others the joy, wellbeing, and sense of harmony the practice of yoga has brought into her life.