Travelling in India Yoga teacher training Yoga travel tips

5 reasons why you should do your yoga teacher training course in India

By Karolina Krawczyk-Sharma Karo has been practising yoga for over 12 years and in 2012, founded Trimurti Yoga in Goa, along with her husband, Ajay Sharma. Trying to keep a balance between East and West Karo teaches in India and Europe. India is one of those fascinating places which you cannot simply describe! For some people…

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Centers and schools Yoga ashrams

50 Years of Bihar School of Yoga

By the Bihar School of Yoga To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bihar School of Yoga celebrated last year, the school has shared with us this retrospective of how the school has developed and some of its most important milestones since its founding back in 1963. Today the Bihar School of Yoga is one of the best-known…

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Centers and schools Yoga ashrams Yoga films and videos Yoga luminaries

5 videos to remember BKS Iyengar

Continuing our tribute to BKS Iyengar this week, the yoga.in team has selected a few of our favourite videos of BKS Iyengar as a homage to the great yoga master: Genius In Action: BKS Iyengar An excerpt from a film tribute created on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of BKS Iyengar’s first trip to the US…

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Centers and schools Yoga ashrams Yoga luminaries

Geeta Iyengar’s words for her father

Within 12 hours from Guruji’s death at 20th August 3:15 AM Indian Standard Time the last rites and the cremation took place in Pune. We would like to share with you Geetaji’s last words for her father, B.K.S. Iyengar: “Only his body has ended. One person’s efforts from inside out, changed the acceptance of yoga…

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Centers and schools Yoga ashrams Yoga teacher training

‘Hug it and twist it – and listen to your heartbeat’ – My teacher training experience with Bharath Shetty at IndeaYoga

By Natalie Noll Natalie from Germany was looking for a yoga teacher training course in India and some time away to reflect and heal. Initially she was thinking of heading to the beaches of Goa but after asking the yoga.in team for advice, she decided to join Bharath Shetty’s teacher training course at IndeaYoga, Mysore.…

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Yoga luminaries Yoga philosophy

An introduction to Patanjali and the Yoga Sutras

By Jodi Boone  Jodi Boone is a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic lifestyle counselor and birth doula. For the past six years, she lived in India, co-directing Satsanga Retreat, in Goa, India. Recently, she moved to Seattle, USA. Jodi teaches yoga classes and workshops in her community, as well as retreats and trainings internationally. For more information,…

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General Yoga

Vedanta in daily life: An interview with Shubhraji

By Isabell Lütkehaus Dr. Isabell Lütkehaus works as a freelance journalist for yoga.info and ayurvedafinder.com. She recently had the opportunity to speak to Shubhraji, a direct disciple of highly revered H.H Swami Chinmayananda and the founder of the Namah Vedanta Center for Spiritual Unfoldment. A teacher of spiritual studies and meditation techniques, Shubhraji was recently in…

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