"Hello all:  This is to show my gratitude and thankfulness to Ritu Pandya for her  yoga instruction and  expertise.  I travel weekly from New York and one reason for that is to attend  Saturday yoga practice with Ritu.   Since beginning her class , I have found  the breathing exercises to be especially healing.  I have been able to stop taking blood pressure medication, after 6 years,  and am using only one puff per day for my COPD, (chronic obstruction pulmonary disease), condition. I fully intend to reduce that to none as well.  I have practiced yoga on and off for several years but have never been so fortunate to have an instructor the likes of Ritu.  Her method of combining of mind, body and spirit/ stretching, breathing and chanting has proved to be extremely beneficial in other aspects of  my working out  and many other aspects of life as well.   So, again, thank you  Ritu!    Terri.  (Legalcam@juno.com)"May 2006