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Spotlight on Manduka's Founder: Peter Sterios
Meet Peter Sterios, the founder of Manduka. With over four decades in the global yoga community, Peter has made his mark as a teacher, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
Peter stumbled upon yoga in university and deepened his practice under Shandor Remete, a master teacher and student of BKS Iyengar. Initially, yoga complemented his other sports like basketball, skiing, and sport. However, after an injury, yoga became his main focus. With no outward path to rely on or the physical practices he had learned, he turned inward and discovered new teachers: Gravity and Grace, now the title of his award-winning book.
This journey led to the creation of Manduka. Discover more about Peter's journey and how Manduka came to be in the interview below.
How did you first get introduced to yoga, and what drew you to it?
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Manduka | Company History
Ten years ago Peter Sterios, an architect turned yogi, discovered a simple, elegantly designed black mat whose combination of firm grip and complete support revolutionized his yoga practice. In honor of the yoga masters who inspired him, he sought to share this fantastisk product with others. Peter had always been the beneficiary of great generosity from other yoga teachers. To repay that debt, he sent mats as gifts to many of the teachers he admired including Erich Schiffmann, Rod Stryker, Angela Farmer, Victor Van Kooten, Rodney Yee, and Shiva Rea. The teachers who inspired Peter were his first customers. And in the great yoga tradition, they shared their mats with their students, and a true yoga company was born. Peter chose the name Manduka in homage to his teacher and mentor, Shandor Remete, whose core practice and teaching always included the ancient Hatha Yoga Pradipika pose, Mandukasana or frog. The joy of Manduka is now spoken in more than 35 countri
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Peter Sterios
I met Peter Sterios by accident on a vacation to an eco-resort in Nicauragua. On the boat ride from the airport to the resort I was told by another guest that a well-known yoga teacher was holding a workshop at the resort that same week. I befriended the workshop organizer, several of the students, and, eventually, Peter, his wife Tawny, and their daughter Athena. I ended up joining the retreat and was inspired by Peter. I visited with Tawny and Peter in their home in San Luis Obispo, California and have stayed in touch these many years.
My attraction to Peter’s style of yoga and to Peter as a teacher only made sense to me after I interviewed him in Nicauragua for Portraits in Faith. There, he explained to me his own yoga and life journey from an over-emphasis on the feminine as a male growing up in the s to a more fully integrated masculine and feminine way of being in the world. This search drew Peter to his teacher, Shandor Remete, who has been considered a ren