Who We Are
Who We Are
Yog School India is based in Rishikesh, the city where yoga has been lived, studied, and passed down for thousands of years. The Ganga flows through it, the Himalayas surround it, and there is a stillness here that is hard to find anywhere else.
This school was founded after fifteen years of personal practice, travel, and a growing realisation that yoga was reaching more people than ever but losing its depth in the process. The postures were spreading. The philosophy was being left behind. Yog School India exists to preserve what matters and pass it on the right way.
We believe yoga is much more than what it has become in most places. Here it is not presented as a trend or a fitness activity, it is a traditional way of living, grounded in integrity, practice, and conscious understanding. That is what we teach. Not just postures, but the whole picture.
YSI offers Yoga Teacher Training programs and wellness retreats. Our 100 Hour and 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training courses are internationally certified by Yoga Alliance, giving students a qualification they can teach with anywhere in the world. Each program is carefully structured to help students build strong foundations, refine their practice, and develop the discipline and awareness that carry long after the training ends. Our retreats are designed for people who want to slow down, reset, and reconnect with themselves through yoga, meditation, and mindful living.
Everything we teach — asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, and Ayurveda is part of one complete system, the way it was always meant to be learned.
People come to us from all over the world. Some have never done yoga before. Some have been practising for years. Some want to teach, some just need time away from the noise of everyday life. We welcome all of them equally, and every single person gets the same care and attention.
Our Vision
We believe yoga is one of the most powerful tools a human being has access to. Not because it is ancient. Because it works on the body, on the mind, and on the quiet confusion that most people carry without knowing what to do with it.
We also believe that most people only ever see a fraction of what it is capable of. They find the postures, they feel better, and they stop there. Not because they do not want more but because nobody shows them that more exists.
That is the gap we exist to close.
Our vision is a world where yoga is taught in its complete form — where philosophy is not an optional extra, where the breath is understood as deeply as the body, and where every teacher who qualifies carries enough knowledge to genuinely change the people they teach.
Rishikesh has held that standard for thousands of years. The knowledge is here, the lineage is here, and the way of passing it on directly, honestly, over time is still alive here. We are committed to keeping it that way and sending it out into the world through every student who trains with us.
This is not about competing with modern yoga. It is about showing what yoga looks like when nothing has been left out.
Our Mission
Our mission is to teach yoga the way it was always meant to be taught — completely, honestly, and without shortcuts.
That means every student who trains with us leaves understanding not just how to teach a class, but why each element of the practice exists, where it comes from, and what it is asking of the person doing it. Asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, and Ayurveda are not separate subjects. They are one system. We teach them that way.
It also means training teachers who are genuinely ready, not just certified. Teachers who have sat with the difficult parts of the practice, who have asked the questions that do not have easy answers, and who bring that honesty into every class they teach.
We operate by the principle of Aspardha — non-competition. In practice this means the classroom at Yog School India has no hierarchy, no comparison, and no performance. A student who has practised for ten years and a student on their first week are treated with the same respect and given the same attention. Progress here is measured against yourself, not against anyone else in the room.