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Spiritual Masters and Yogacharyas

Swami Brahmavidananda

Swami Brahmavidananda

Swami Brahmavidananda Saraswati is a traditional and contemporary teacher of Vedanta. He believes that “Vedanta is not only for sadhus but very much for people who are living life to the fullest and who want more from life.” READ MORE

Swami Ambikananda

Swami Ambikananda

Swami Ambikananda began her Yoga studies forty-five years ago when she met her guru, Swami Venkatesananda, the world-renowned Sanskrit scholar and disciple of Swami Sivananda, founder of the international Divine Life Society. READ MORE

Swami Svatmananda

Swami Svatmananda

Swami Svatmananda Saraswati has been a disciple of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati since 2003, and completed an intense study of Vedanta in a traditional three-year course in 2007. Swami Svatmananda has devoted his life to Vedic knowledge. READ MORE

Swami Santatmananda

Swami Santatmananda

Swami Santatmananda is resident acharia at the Rishikesh ashram of Swami Dayananda and is currently conducting a 3-year residential course on Sanskrit and Vedanta .READ MORE

Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh

Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh

Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh came to Yoga, when quite young, thanks to his father.So Guruji and Yoga have always been a part of his life.This initial introduction helped steer him on this path and after graduation, Yoga became his calling. READ MORE

Sheila Whittaker

Sheila Whittaker

Sheila is a Sound Healer, Musician, Gong master & Teacher with a background in classical music. As a professional violinist having studied at the Royal College of Music, she had a thriving career in the mainstream classical music world for many years, both playing & teaching. Some 18 years ago she became a Sound Healer, obeying the call to use her musical abilities in a more focused Holistic way. READ MORE

Swami Jyotirmayananda

Swami Jyotirmayananda

Asana and pranayama class “Energy expansion in the asanas” with Swami Jyotirmayananda READ MORE

Swamini Brahmaprajnananda Saraswati

Swamini Brahmaprajnananda Saraswati

Swamini Brahmaprajnananda Saraswati (everyone calls her Swamini ji) is a traditional Hindu monk and a contemporary teacher of Advaita Vedanta (knowledge of non duality/oneness). READ MORE

Pundit Radheshyam Mishra

Pundit Radheshyam Mishra

Pundit Radheshyam Mishra has been teaching Traditional Classical Yoga of India across the world since 1993 READ MORE...

Yogi Kamal Singh

Yogi Kamal Singh

Yogi Kamal Singh is known for his energetic and motivating Ashtanga classes at Tattvaa Yogashala, an inspired yoga hall overlooking the Ganges River in Rishikesh, India. A class with Kamal includes powerful adjustments which safely teach students the depths of each asana. READ MORE

H.R.Nagendra

H.R.Nagendra

H. R. Nagendra is an Indian mechanical engineer, Yoga therapist, academic, writer and the founder vice chancellor of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), a deemed university located in Bengaluru. He is best known as the personal yoga consultant of Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India and is a recipient of Yoga Shri title from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. READ MORE

Dr. Omanand

Dr. Omanand

Dr. Omanand Guruji is a renowned Yoga Guru and motivator with multi talent honours and enlightened scholar. His students are successful Yoga teachers from 88 countries. He is author of 38 books, numerous DVDs and articles. He is a merit holder throughout his education and is honoured with various awards. He knows 6 languages, has travelled to 60 countries. READ MORE

Damini Dalal

Damini Dalal

Damini Dalal has been practising and teaching yoga at the The Yoga Institute, SantaCruz, Mumbai, the oldest organised yoga centre READ MORE

Ram Vakkalanka

Ram Vakkalanka

Ram Vakkalanka is an internationally known Nada Yogi, Yoga philosopher, Sanskrit expert and Meditation instructor. He was born and brought up in India, steeped in Yogic culture. Ram belongs to the spiritual lineage of the ancient Yogi Dattatreya. Currently based in Toronto, Canada, Ram travels all over the world, sharing his deep knowledge of Nada Yoga, Vedic sciences and philosophy, Sanskrit, Kirtan and Meditation READ MORE

Yogachariya Jnandev

Yogachariya Jnandev

Yogachariya Jnandev is founder of the Yoga Satsanga Ashram in West Wales. Jnandev spent the first 33 years if his life in India, grew up in a Hindu household in rural Rajasthan READ MORE

Vijay Gopala

Vijay Gopala

Sri. Vijay Gopala is a certified senior Yoga Teacher from Mysore, India - the southern capital of the Yoga world. He has been teaching Yoga for more than 20 years. READ MORE

Sri Louise

Sri Louise

Sri Louise began her Yoga practice at the Jivamukti Center in NYC in 1993, where she sites Allison West as her first and more inspiring Asana Teacher. Influenced by her own life as a Contemporary Dancer and specifically the field of Somatics, Sri teaches an integrative approach to Asana. Teaching for 20 years READ MORE

Ram Banerjee

Ram Banerjee

Born in India, Ram came to England at the age of 7 with his enterprising family who put education and knowledge above all material things. He showed great promise by gaining a 7-year scholarship to public school and continued on to obtain his masters from Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. READ MORE

Mary Niker

Mary Niker

Mary Niker is a highly experienced and committed international yoga teacher based in the Thames Valley. She has over 20 years experience studying the Iyengar method of yoga with regular visits to India, including studying with the Iyengar family and B.K.S. Iyengar himself. READ MORE

Uday Bhosale

Uday Bhosale

Uday has been a resident teacher at RIMYI for over a decade. He has recently moved to the U.K. and is based out of Reading. A former Taekwondo enthusiast, Uday was introduced to the Iyengar method by his martial arts teacher. He began learning directly with Guruji, Geetaji and Prashantji in 1999 and continues to do so to date. READ MORE

Debbie Farrar

Debbie Farrar

Debbie Farrar was introduced to asana, pranayam, mantra and meditation by her mother in the 1970s, and has enjoyed a daily practice for almost 40 years. Inspired by nature, her mother and Godfrey Devereux; she began teaching yoga in 1999 and completed her Teacher Training with Satya Premananda in 2004. In 2007, she gave up her job as a Science Teacher to devote herself to yoga READ MORE

Lucy Crisfield

Lucy Crisfield

Lucy Crisfield lives with the Yoga Sūtras burning in her heart, what are they, and what do they mean, really?! She has been surprised by the intensity with which they have gripped her, and have shaped her life over the past 15 years. READ MORE

Andy Curtis-Payne

Andy Curtis-Payne

Andy Curtis-Payne is a yoga teacher, therapist and teacher-trainer with many years of experience in group work, Master classes and one-to-one consultations. He is an enthusiastic advocate of the power of yoga to change lives. READ MORE

Sandra Barnes

Sandra Barnes

Sandra started her yoga journey in her early 20s after completing a P.E. degree in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her home country - leaving soon after to travel and explore the earth's mysteries.

Angela Hope-Murray

Angela Hope-Murray

Angela Hope-Murray Msc Ayur, MA Nutrition and Health counselling, Bsc Ost, HCPC reg Pod. has been in practice for over 40 yrs and has trained as a podiatrist READ MORE

Angela Cresswell

Angela Cresswell

Angela has been practicing Yoga for more than twelve years and teaching for five years. She completed her training in a traditional Ashram in Southern India in the Sivananda lineage of Hatha Yoga READ MORE

Abigail Acquaviva

Abigail Acquaviva

Abigail is a Yoga Elder who started practicing yoga in 1997 and teaching in 2000, delighting in the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli. READ MORE

Ben Parkes

Ben Parkes

Benjamin Parkes, otherwise known as YogaBen, is a 39-year-old yoga teacher. READ MORE

Laura Finch

Laura Finch

Laura has long been the seeker of truth. She appreciates the importance of a spiritual life. READ MORE

Vikki Phillpott

Vikki Phillpott

Vikki has been teaching under the banner of The Traditional Yoga Association since 2005. Practicing for almost 30 years she finds yoga both grounding and incredibly uplifting. She teaches a variety of classes and one-to-one’s in South Oxfordshire. READ MORE

Luci Trendle

Luci Trendle

Luci began her yoga journey almost 20 years ago and it had such a profound impact on her life that she very soon became aware that it was a fundamental part of her well-being. Such was her enthusiasm she was inspired to study with The Traditional Yoga Association®. READ MORE

Ondy Willson

Ondy Willson

Ondy has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1979, and established a Buddhist group in her hometown (Yeshe Buddhist Group) in 2001.She has offered teachings internationally and has served as a FPMT (Foundation of the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) Touring Teacher since 2007. READ MORE

Pt Satish K Sharma

Pt Satish K Sharma

Pt Satish K Sharma is General Secretary of the National Council of Hindu Temples UK, Chair of the British board of Hindu scholars. READ MORE

Dr Ramesh Pattni

Dr Ramesh Pattni

Dr Ramesh Pattni DPhil (Oxford) is a renowned world authority on Yoga Psychology as explicated from Yogasūtra of Patañjali, the primary text of Classical Yoga. READ MORE

Samantha Howick

Samantha Howick

Samantha, artist, yogini and devoted mother of four children. Founder of One Yoga, dedicated to encouraging people to love more deeply and live more fully. READ MORE

Joe Hoare

Joe Hoare

Joe runs the Bristol Laughter Club, which is over 13 years old and is the longest-running series of laughter yoga workshops outside India. Sessions are dynamic, energising and life-enhancing. His own life changed when he ‘woke up’ about 25 years ago. READ MORE

Michael Hutchinson

Michael Hutchinson

Michael Hutchinson is a yoga teacher, teacher-trainer and researcher with decades of experience in group classes, one-to-one consultations and delivery of training courses, day seminars and weekend retreats. READ MORE

Rita Tchamitchian

Rita Tchamitchian

Rita combines Hatha Yoga which is a beautiful mix of asanas (postures) with a flowing pace that only leaves you more addicted to yoga and want more of this ancient beautiful practice READ MORE

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