Tristan Cox is a Certified Yoga Instructor and founder of Shanti Yoga School in India. He travels internationally to share the body, mind, and heart- transforming benefits of contemporary and savvy exercise and diet.
His methods have been covered in published books like Why We Do Yoga, and A Story of Our Souls: Things We've Never Known among others. But, the real measure of his success is in helping people achieve amazing results.
Tristan's 10 years of study in fitness, yoga, nutrition, anatomy, eastern and western philosophy attracts students of all types to bring yoga into their lives.
After almost a decade of working in corporate America Tristan was overweight, stressed, unhealthy, and unhappy. At first he found solace in yoga for the physical benefits. Over time yoga became less and less about exercise.
Like you’ve probably discovered for yourself, yoga helps in many ways. It helped Tristan reduce stress, increase flexibility, calm the mind, and so much more. Yoga eventually led Tristan to meditation.
Through meditation Tristan realized money was not going to make him happy. He decided to quit his job to travel the world. He discovered new places, cultures, and people. While attending a 10-day silent Buddhist meditation retreat in Myanmar he saw a vision of his future. It was to immerse himself in yoga and spread it far and wide. As he continued meditating the vision for Shanti Yoga crystallized.
It’s a vision where the entire world is filled with yogis. There are no wars. There is no dogma. There is no suffering. There is only peace. And that’s what shanti means: peace.