Satsang Yoga

Yoga Instructor

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Born in Costa Rica and raised in Tamarindo Beach, Brooks grew up outdoors, climbing mango trees, fishing the shores with hand lines, playing soccer, baseball, she was a life guard, and practiced competitive swimming and surfing. Brooks surfed professionally for over seven years. She represented Costa Rica around the world and became a Roxy Surf Team athlete. At the same time she was earning her bachelor degree at the University of Costa Rica and learning about yoga with Mariel Marmorato at Ser Om Shanti in Tamarindo. Although she does not compete anymore, Brooks is still a world class surfer and brings her own athletic technical skills to her yoga teachings.

 

In 2012, after eleven years of disciplined yoga practice, Brooks traveled to the Indian Himalayas to become a certified Yoga Alliance instructor with the Himalayan Yoga Institute. She was trained in the style of Rajadhiraja yoga from the lineage of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. It was during her stay at the ashram that Ganga Devi, her beloved acharya, bestowed upon Brooks her spiritual name:

 

- Bhaktimaya: one who is full of devotion and love for the Supreme.

 

In early 2013, Brooks “Bhaktimaya” Wilson began teaching in Costa Rica. In Fall 2013, at Ganga Devi’s request, Brooks returned to the ashram in India as an assistant during a twenty-one day instructor training course. Here, her passion for Rajadhiraja yoga grew even more, thus increasing her will to share this classical form of yoga with the Western world upon her return home.​  In February of 2016, Bhaktimaya travelled to the South of India to complete an advanced yoga teacher training course imparted by her guru Ganga Devi. She is now a 500 hour RYT Yoga Alliance certified instructor.