Gayatri Martin, an RN & yoga teacher, was born in New Zealand and has been studying and dancing Argentine tango in New York City and Buenos Aires since 1998.

Gavito

Gayatri organizes the NYC Summer Tango Festival and the NYC New Year's Eve Tango Party, both which she originally co-hosted with Lucille Krasne. Gayatri also created La Boca Milonga where every Tuesday night you can experience exceptional guest teachers and performers. She teaches private classes and the basic group class every Tuesday at 7:30pm at La Boca.

Out of her passions for Yoga and tango, and her love for New Zealand and Buenos Aires, Gayatri founded "Tango Tours with a Twist". Her tours pioneered the combination of tango with yoga classes and sightseeing. She was the first person to feature intensive seminars with the Legendary late Carlos Gavito in the Dandi Mansion.

Pupy Castello

Omar Vega

In addition to the many talented teachers Gayatri has taken classes from at Dance Manhattan, La Boca and in Buenos Aires, she has also studied with renown teachers such as Carlos Gavito, Omar Vega, Pupy Castillo, Pablo Pugliese, Mariela Franganillo, Daniela Arcuri y Armando Orzuza and Ariel 'Rulo' Prilick,

Gayatri would like to pay special homage to the late Oscar, with whom she had the good fortune to dance many tandas in many milongas on many trips to Buenos Aires. She called him "mi companero de baile de Buenos Aires."

Oscarcito

Rulo Prilick

She says, "I find yoga and tango have the common elements that allow us to step into the true reality of the moment, of the movement of the breath, of the music...transitory, yet impacting on one's perception of life, providing unlimited opportunities to create new sensations and experiences."