Franç ois Raoult, M. A. , ERYT 500, C-IAYT, is the Founder and Director of Open Sky Yoga Center in Rochester, New York, and has taught Yoga since 1975. He first felt called to Yoga at age nineteen on a pilgrimage to the sacred sites of India. For a decade, he toured Europe with an avant-garde puppet theater and composed music for the plays. The manipulation of string puppets led him to explore Yoga and Tai Chi. A graduate of the É cole Nationale de Yoga in Paris and among the first French Yoga instructors to study in India with r B. K. S. Iyengar, he conducts seminars, international retreats and teacher training worldwide. Franç ois also has studied meditation, Ayurveda and experiential anatomy. Certified in Gongand Laughing Yoga (!), Franç ois completed the International Sound Healer program and also holds aMaster's degree in Ethnomusicology.
