Yoga Maya translates as the Power of the Divine in the World.  In 2017 Trevor was authorized by the late Sanyasani Bandana Puri Devi of the Sri Sri Saradeswari Asharm Kolkata, and Mataji Gauribrata Puri Devi to function as a Spiritual Head of a Spiritual Center. Mataji gave Trevor specific instructions to Trevor Chaitanya to start his teaching mission and Interfaith Ministry.  Under Mataji's blessings Trevor Chaitanya's mission work was named "The Yoga Maya Center - For Modern Mystics with Mission Hearts to Love and Serve All".

 

Yoga Maya has many meanings and context.  Yoga Maya is one of many names of Shakti, or Divine Mother.  Yoga Maya is Durga in a particular  mood in the great epic the Srimad Bhagavatam where the Mother energy acts to protect Shri Krishna as a baby.

 

As many of us know, Yoga refers to spiritual union. Maya is often simply translated as illusion.  This is accurate, yet the word means more than just illusion. To paraphrase my Vedanta Guru, Sripada Raju, Maya is the bases of transactional reality, where all appearances play out.  Maya is magic, Maya is the power of delusion but also the power that is ever present bringing us into the direct knowing of our Truest Self.   All actions within conditioned reality, are either under the power of Yoga Maya, or Maha Maya.  Maha Maya is the great delusion of fear, anger, greed and ultimately the sense of separateness.  Yoga Maya is the play of duality in its movement towards Divine action and understanding.  Yoga Maya is brining "the Divine Power into the world".  One's highest potential can only be reached by the power of Yoga Maya, while Maha Maya brings us into confusion, delusion and error. 

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The Yoga Maya Center is an independent and spiritual affiliate of Mothers Trust Ashram.  What does this mean?  There are no legal ties between the two. They are spiritually connected and completed independent.  Mataji Gauribrata wished for Trevor Chaitanya to work freely as a spiritual independent teacher whose mission is tied through sacred bonds with the Ganges Michigan Vortex and healing energies at Mothers Trust and the Universal Spirituality of the Holy Twins.    

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Trevor was given the name Chaitanya Prabhu “master of wisdom” by Bandana Puri Devi January 1st 2016, the wish fulfilling day of the great master Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. 

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Our hope and prayer is that the mission work Trevor engages under the blessings and umbrella of the Yoga Maya consciousness can help you better serve others, healing all beings everywhere in all times places and dimensions.

 

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Trevor Chaitanya Eller, ardent lover of spiritual teachings–especially yoga in its various forms and traditions — began practicing yoga regularly in 1997 and teaching in 2003.  He is a Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapist focusing on Yoga for your Ayurvedic body Type and Muscular Skeletal Alignment.  Trevor's approach to yoga is well-rounded based on Western Anatomy, Ayurvedic mind body Anatomy and the deep spiritual traditions of Yoga and Vedanta.

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His spiritual longings brought him on pilgrimages too many masters across various traditions, Yogic, Sikh, Hindu and Buddhist, he has integrated a variety of lineages into his practice.  In 2003, Trevor attended the second to last teacher training with Yogi Bhajan Master Of Kundalini Yoga and worked as seasonal staff at the Omega Center in upstate New York in 1998 and 2003.  At this time, he studied Thai massage, yoga and other healing arts with some of the finest teachers around, including a deeply personally transformational week of mindfulness with Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2001 he traveled to Southern India where he undertook a Naad Yoga intensive and temple pilgrimage with his mantra teacher Shri Param Eswaran. With a deep appreciation for her massive humanitarian efforts, he has been a devotee of the hugging Saint Mata Amritanandamayi Ma Devi affectionally known as Amma, since he accidentally stumbled into her programs in 1999.

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He lived at the ashrams Song Of The Morning - A Yoga Retreat of Excellence - in 2004 and Hacienda De Guru Ram Das in 2004/2005 where he practiced meditation, chanting, and asana (physical yoga) daily.

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Trevor has traveled the country and abroad playing kirtan (Yogic Chanting). His album Engrossed is distributed world-wide by Spirit Voyage Recording Label and is loved by many. He has played at Bhakti Fest and Sat Nam Fest, the two largest kirtan/mantra festivals in the United States.

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For over two decades Trevor has been devoted to yoga as a traditional ancient holistic path. He also enjoys merging western anatomy and physiology to the application of physical yoga practices.  He has studied fascial anatomy in the light of yoga with Tom Myers founder of the Anatomy Trains system of Body Work and is currently studying with Orthopedic Massage expert Dr Ben Benjamin.

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His Studies include but aren't limited to:

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• International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association
• Thai Massage at Irene’s Myomassology Institute and Omega Center
• Irene’s Myomassology Institute
• Licensed Massage Therapist State of Michigan 2012
• Yoga Therapy Om of Michigan 200 Hour Teacher Training 
• Ayurveda Based Yoga Therapy For Yoga Teachers and Medical Professionals
• Tom Myers and Robin Rothenberg – Yoga, Fascia & the New Anatomy of the Body
• TMJ Dysfunction Assessment and Treatment, 2017 Irene’s Myomassology Institute
• Dr. Ben Benjamin Orthopedic Assessment and Massage Therapy Low Back, Neck, Shoulder 
• Aaron Mattes Active Isolated Stretching  (A.I.S) Upper and Lower Body taught by Dr. Ben Benjamin
• Ananda Meditation Teacher Training 80 Hours
• Palouse MBSR Course
• Dr David Frawleys Ayurvedic Healing Course 
• Dr. David Frawlyes Mantra, Yoga and Ayurveda Course

• 300 Hour Yoga Teacher with Integral Yoga

• Raja Yoga Integral Yoga Teacher Training 

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He is well versed in mantra, mudra, pranayama, yogic diet cleansing and herbs as well as asana (physical yoga).  His primary practice is Kriya Yoga as given by Paramahamsa Hariharananda and Paramahmsa Prajnanananda.  He is eternally grateful for the gift of initiation into the ancient science of Kriya Yoga.  His deepest and most profound teachings have come from the Swami’s and Acharyas of this lineage of Kriya Yoga.  

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Trevor is the lead teacher trainer for Schoolcraft Community College as well as Triple Crane Retreat Center.  He greatly enjoys leading kirtan and sharing about Bhakti Yoga as well. 

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