Alan Finger was born in South Africa, and was 7 years old, when his father returned form the United States, where he had studied with Yogananda.  Alan started to train Yoga with his father intensely by the age of 15 and was further was exposed to Yogis such as Venkatesananda, Swami Nishraisananda, the Tantric Master Bharati, and B.K.S. Iyengar. Alan and his father started to develop their own system of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda (ISTHA), which they taught in South Africa. Alan came to the United States in the mid 1970’s and opened the “Yoga Tantra Institute” in Los Angeles. In 1993 he moved to New York, where he opened “Yoga Zone,” which was later renamed “Be Yoga” and which was sold to “Yoga Works” in 2005.