William Prottengeier
Adaptive Yoga Instructor

William Prottengeier, founder and director of the Minneapolis Yoga Workshop, is a Certified Iyengar instructor. He has been practicing yoga since 1975, and teaching yoga since 1979. He studied with Swami Veda Bharati (Pandit Usharbudh Arya) for 15 years. Williams teaching flows from the Hatha Yoga tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar, with Ramanand Patel as his primary teacher in the U.S. His other major influence are the Vipassana and Advaita Vedanta traditions. Williams teaching weaves these traditions into the practice of asana. His DYNAMIC teaching blends and balances concentration and precision in asana practice with mindfulness and compassion in daily living.