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About Raghunath

Raghunath, born Ray Cappo, has been leading people towards natural and healthy lifestyles for the last 23 years. In his youth he was an inspired outspoken punk musician that led tens of thousands of youth peers to adopt a positive mental attitude, and a healthy vegetarian / vegan, drug free lifestyle.

The unexpected death of his father & a desire to learn about health and spirituality brought him to yoga, & then then India, in the late 80’s. While mastering yoga asanas, breath work pranayama, & ancient literature he became fascinated with health, living a balanced life & learning how to assist the body to heal & detoxify.

In his travels he has met several masters, swamis, yogi’s and he incorporates all of their teaching into his own. Raghunath has been leading his peers towards well being, health & balance since his youth and has become a living example of reversing the aging process through proper diet & the lifestyle of a yogi.

Raghunath describes himself as an "ex-punk, ex-monk, husband, father of four, inversion ambassador, bent on Bhakti, detox junkie, evolution assistant, coalesced by kirtan, cacao consumer, puranic story teller, reciter of Gita, potential excavation, fixed on elevation, take a deep breath, beyond birth and death, prana hunter, animal friendly, transcendence in training, born to give, live today, full contact fighter, devours durians, likes to chant, likes a challenge, servant of the servants, harmonium hugger, conscious of Krishna".

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Workshops Being Offered

Pranayama Primer + Purify Flow
Heaven & Earth– A Weekend of Getting Grounded and Earning Your Wings
Friday, July 6  |  7:00pm - 9:00pm  |  South Granville  |  $40
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Asana and Pranayama (regulation of breath) are ancient & powerful methods of cleansing the gross and subtle body and are the foundation of the yoga system. In this vinyasa workshop, Raghunath a breathwork junkie, will explain the mysteries of pranayama which are often misunderstood. He will also share methods of upgrading your asana practice - no matter what level you are at via incorporating breath technique - to create more benefit in your practice from the same effort. Simple yogic practices for diet and hygiene that can revolutionize your over all health and will be discussed for practical application. Chanting as breathwork also included.

Refining Advanced Transitioning
Heaven & Earth– A Weekend of Getting Grounded and Earning Your Wings
Saturday, July 7  |  9:30 - 11:30am  |  Yaletown  |  $40
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Raghunath is known for his challenging and inspiring classes that ask people to step into their potential. To float fluidly from one asana to another makes our practice less mechanical and more like a seamless dance. His gift in advanced sequencing is his ability to translate and break down the complicated asana into its most simple elemental parts and have them appear in the sequence in places you’d never imagine – demystifying the poses. This vinyasa workshop is sweet for both keen practitioners and teachers who want to use and practice creative transitions. Chanting included as a transition in transcendence.

Flight School
Heaven & Earth - A Weekend of Getting Grounded & Earning Your Wings
Saturday, July 7  |  2:00pm - 4:00pm  |  Flow Wellness  |  $40
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Raghunath is a professor of flight, and Flight School is his wildly popular NYC based anti-gravity workshop for bona fide asana geeks. Arm-balancing asanas are dissected, while experiments with variations and transitions are taught. You will catalyze your own dynamic signature practice, melt your fear, push your edge and realize your potential, no matter what level you are at. Take YOUR practice to its highest. The workshop will be interlaced with chanting and stories from classic Indian texts; rooted in down to earth spirituality, and instructions for living a contemporary yogic lifestyle. Fasten your seat belt, Flight School is in session.