{"id":146,"date":"2011-03-08T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/?p=146"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:00:53","slug":"morarji-desai-national-institute-of-yoga-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2011\/03\/08\/morarji-desai-national-institute-of-yoga-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we visited the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga<\/a> (MDNIY), the only\u00a0national institute of yoga, and a place in the heart of India’s capital\u00a0where you can get a very complete postgraduate degree in yoga studies.<\/p>\n

Before the asana class started, we could see and learn how proper nose and stomach cleaning are performed. A day starts with a\u00a0clean body, also from inside! The asana class was gender\u00a0separated, followed by a common chanting class.<\/p>\n

After a short break the students joined a 2-hour philosophy class,\u00a0often conducted by famous outside teachers such as B.K.S. Iyengar or\u00a0Swami Veda. The students can choose between a class in English or in Hindi.\u00a0As all the students are to become yoga teachers, their daily schedule finishes with a training on teaching.<\/p>\n

Then, we met the center director, Dr. Basavaraddi, we visited the yoga museum and heard about the\u00a0various programmes of the institute, which are also accessible to foreigners – at that moment we were just wondering where the foreigners are…<\/p>\n

We guess foreigners don’t know about the wonderful, high quality and cheap options inside this yoga university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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