Yoga Centers and Ashrams of India

Directory of yoga centres in India - listing all yogic styles and traditions!
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Color Code: Lilac = studio, Pink = retreat center

North India: Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand / Uttaranchal, Rishikesh (Uttarakhand)
National Capital Region (NCR): Delhi, New Delhi, Gurgaon (Haryana), Noida (U.P.)
Central India:  Madhya Pradesh West Coast:  Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra
Eastern India: West Bengal South: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu

See also: Yoga Nepal, Yoga Sri Lanka, Yoga Travel Specialists, Online Yoga Classes

~ North India ~

Chandigarh

Chandigarh Ayurved Center
Address: 1123, Universal Enclave, Sector 48-B, Chandigarh
Instructor: Balvinder Acharya
Description: You can contact us for Yoga Corporate Training, Yoga Therapeutic Training, Yoga stress management modules, Designing of any type of Yoga modules. Email: yoga_chandigarh [at] yahoo.com

Haryana

www.gurumaa.com - Love Meditate Celebrate

Anandmurti Gurumaa Ashram

Address: Gurumaa Ashram, NH-1, Gannaur, Sonipat District, Haryana  131101
Contact: Phone: 0130-6452740 / 011-41708833  /  Email: shankar [at] gurumaa.com
Website: www.gurumaa.com  |  www.gurumaa.com/gurumaa-ashram.php  |  Yoga Links
Instructor: Patanjali Yoga Anandmurti Gurumaa Ashram
Yoga Style: Yoga Nidra
Description: Gurumaa Ashram is a living Buddhafield brimming with the presence of an enlightened master, where great evolution is taking place; personalities are being carved, polished, and groomed from crude, blinded, unconscious to gracious, aware and enlightened ones.
Tens of thousands of people sit and meditate together under Gurumaa's guidance, and are working diligently to uplift themselves. People from all faiths come here to dissolve their differences and learn the spiritual path of meditation. Group meditations, solitary silence retreats, kirtan, silent contemplation, reading are what you do. And when Gurumaa sits with her disciples, the scene is truly a moving one. Her presence, her words, and the mesmerizing smile, gives an invigorating experience.


For more Haryana Yoga listings, please see:
Yoga Centres in the National Capital Region (NCR): Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

200-Hour Ashtanga Vinyasa, Hatha Yoga Teacher Training -Dharamshala
Adsress: Yoga AllianceBhagsu Nag, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (summer location)
Agonda Beach, Canacona, South Goa (winter location)
Contact: Email: info [at] sampoornayoga.com
Website: http://sampoornayoga.com
Instructors: Deepak Sharma (India), Brigit Hefel (Zurich, Switzerland)
Specialties: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher training with Iyengar yoga's precision and Hatha yoga's depth and stillness.
Description:
Sampoorna Yoga
yoga teacherclassWe offer 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training Course in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Hatha yoga, Pre-Yoga Teacher Training, one month foundation course in Goa and Dharamshala. For more details about the course please check our website.
Thank you.


Agama Dharamsala
Address: We are located in Bagsu, the village just above McLeod Ganj, north of Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayas. Simply walk to the end of the main road in Bagsu which leads to Dharamkot and veer left up the hill pathway going toward lower Dharamkot. Follow the signs to the Agama center, which is located just beside the Supna Guesthouse.
Contact: Phone: +91 [0] 98 167 84 131 or +91 [0] 98 167 84 191  /
Email: dharamsala [at] agamayoga.com
Website: www.agamayoga.com/centers/india/dharamsala/  |  Yoga Links
Instructor: Swami Vivekananda Saraswati
agama Yoga Style: Esoteric Tantra, Hatha, Kundalini and Laya Yoga
A branch school of Agama yoga, Agama Dharamsala offers the popular First Month Intensive Course and Course Month 2. We also teach Tantra and Dance workshops and hold meditation retreats. Please check the website for scheduling details and more general information.


Ananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram
Address: AYVA (based in New Delhi) organizes courses in: Himachal Pradesh, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh
Contact: Phone: + 1 888 717 2812  /  Email: info [at] anandayogashram.org
Website: www.anandayogashram.org  |  Yoga Links
Instructors: Yogi Ram (Director), Yogini Kalayani, Yogi Tilak, Yogi Omkar and several guest teachers.
Yoga Style: Hatha Yoga, Sivananda Yoga
Specialties: Yoga Teacher Training course, Yoga vacations, Yoga and Meditation retreats
Ananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram Ananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram is part of Divine Educative Charitable Trust (Regd). Its vision is to impart the knowledge of Hatha Yoga and traditional meditation techniques to all the seekers.
AYVA organizes 200 hours Yoga Alliance accredited Yoga Teacher Training courses in North India (Himachal Pradesh, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh). It also offers Yoga vacations, Meditation retreats and Ayurvedic courses.


Basunti
Address: Village Khatiar, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India Basunti Yoga Shala
Contact: Email: info [at] basunti.com
Website: www.basunti.com
Yoga Links: www.basunti.com/useful_links.php
Description: Basunti is a lakeside yoga retreat center with a purpose-built yoga shala in the heart of a wildlife reserve in Northern India. It is perfect for workshops and holistic retreats. We welcome inquiries from students who wish to join retreats or teachers who wish to hire Basunti for their retreats.


Divya Institute (Yoga Research Centre)
Address: 'Divya Kunj', New Totu, Shimla-171 011
Instructor: Dr. Vivek Sood, YIC, CYSc, BSc.(Yoga), MSc(Yoga), M.Phil(Yoga) Ph.D (Yoga), MBA
Description: It is a unit of Divyayog Research Foundation (Trust) engaged in imparting training (residential and non-residential) besides academic education upto M.Phil. It is a Yoga Research Centre, Yoga Therapy Centre and Ashram. Yoga camps are also organized on demand.


Himalaya Yoga Valley
Address: Sidharth house Macleodganj, Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh
Contact: Phone: 00919816783605
Website: www.yogagoaindia.com  |  Yoga Links
Instructor: Lalit
Yoga Style: Ashtanga Vinyasa Hatha
Specialties: Teacher training
Description: Himalaya Yoga Valley offers the highest quality Yoga training, daily drop in classes and Yoga Teacher Training, Reiki, Yoga Therapy, meditation courses and retreats to both beginners and seasoned practicioners. For aspirants of our Yoga Teacher Training Course our centre offers a 200hr intensive, internationally certified, rapid learning method. Our students gain a deep understanding of the practice of yoga asanas, philosophy, anatomy, and meditation.


Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre
Dharamkot, Dharamsala and Arambol, Goa
Address: Village Dharamkot, Dharamsala
Instructors: Sharat Arora, Laila Sell
Description: Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre offers courses like:
 * Five-day Yoga Course for Beginners and Continuing  * Intensive Yoga Course  * Teachers Training Courses  * Special Yoga Course  * Therapy Yoga Classes  * Yoga for Children  * Yoga for Stress  * International Summer Courses 2010


Kailash School of Yoga & Holistic Healing
Address: Yogi Cottage, Bhagsu Road, Mcleodganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh
Instructors: Sugathakumar N Nair (Yogi Sivadas)
Description: Ashtanga Vinyasa and Tribal Hatha Yoga classes are available daily to everyone on a drop-In basis. Reiki, Ayurvedic Massage, Meditation and Sound Healing available by arrangement.
The Yoga Teacher Training Course is recognized and approved by Yoga Alliance.


Neo Yoga Center
Address: Neo Yoga Center, Bhagsunag, Dharmsala {H.P}
Neo Yoga Center, Arambol beach, Goa
Contact: Phone: +91-9923857370  /  Email: neoyoga [at] yahoo.com
Website: www.neoyoga.net  |  Yoga Links
Yoga Style: Iyengar based Hatha yoga, Kundalani Yoga, Gayna Yoga, Krama Yoga.
Description: Yoga asanas done with understanding help us for better health, concentration, and longevity. More than that, to understand that just as the Body is a tool to experience this world, so too the Asanas prepare us for Meditation and Pranayama. Without asana, Pranayama is not possible. Without control of Pranyama, Meditation is not possible.


Sivasoorya (TM) Divine School of Yoga

Sivasoorya Divine School of Yoga

Address: Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India
Ashram location in Soorya, Vellayani P.O., Kerala, India
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Contact: Phone: +91 9447817174  /  Email: info [at] sivasoorya.org
Website: www.sivasoorya.org
Instructor: Tantric Yogi Soorya Raviji
Yoga Style: Contemplative asanas, kriyas, Mudras and bandhas, mantra teaching, meditation, including psychic meditation, sathsang, Karma yoga and various traditional yoga techniques.
Patanjali yoga suthras, chakra and channels, Vedas- Rig, Sama, Atharva and Yajur, philosophy of Kriya yoga, philosophy of Raja yoga, Karma yoga, Jana yoga, Bhakthi yoga, science of prana and its application and aum vedic view.
Description:

Tantric Yogi Soorya Raviji
Tantric Yogi Soorya Raviji

Raviji's Kriya Yoga
The Sivasoorya Divine School of Yoga, founded by Tantric Yogi Guru Raviji, is a unique and rare yoga centre of its kind in India. It is different from the other such centers in that it delves deep into the purport of yoga and its various aspects; it offers training in the traditional and systematic way as envisaged by the great rishis of the past. The Sivasoorya Divine School of Yoga now offers Yoga Teacher Training Courses at Raviji's own ashram at Kerala, India.
Raviji has traveled extensively within Europe and Japan and has conducted various workshops, seminars and Yoga training sessions continuously. He will be visiting these places again from June to August this year for the same purpose.
The Yoga Teacher Training Course is designed to create professional Yoga Teachers using the specially designed Sivasoorya Yoga techniques. The 30-day 200-hour Course and examination equips the Yoga Teacher with a Certificate which will be highly valued all over the world.


National Capital Region (NCR):  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/delhi_NCR.htm
Uttar Pradesh:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/uttar_pradesh.htm
Noida, UP:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/delhi_NCR.htm#Noida

Uttarakhand / Uttaranchal

Mahayog Academy
Address: Mahayog Academy, Talla Gethia, Nainital, Uttarakhand  263 130
Instructor: Mahayogi Kapil Adwait (Pilot Baba)
Description: The Mahayog Academy has been founded to impart Yoga teachings directly from the Himalayan Masters. Sankalpa Shakti is the power that is born of resolve, will and determination to manifest thought vibrations to reality.


Satvik Sadan
Address: 'Shree Kailashmukhi', Bhimtal, Uttarakhand  263136
Contact: Phone: +91 999 70 927 94  /  Email: thesatvikmode [at] gmail.com
Website: www.thesatvik.com  |  Yoga Links
Instructor: Shukla Acharya (Pulak Ranjan Shukla)
Yoga Style: Classic, Hatha, Raj, Chakra, Kundalini Satvik, Ayurvedic Constitution based
Specialties: Pranayama variations, meditation, Ayurvedic Constitution based, yogic exercises
Description:

The Satvik, Bhimtal, Indian Himalayas offers a satvik yoga experience. That is an authentic pure yoga lifestyle experience. We have yoga retreat, customized to the individual of ten days or more as well as weekend yoga retreats. We also conduct yoga teacher training courses. Details are listed on our website www.thesatvik.com
The special feature at The Satvik is that Shukla Acharya of Himalayas personally conducts the yoga sessions. Shukla Acharya ( Pulak Ranjan Shukla) has been a vedic scholar and yoga practitioner since 1979 and is closely connected to the renowned Himalayan Masters, being their protege.


Shri Ram Sharnam Ashram
Address: Haridwar Ashram: 511-A, Sapta Sarovar Marg, Bhupatwala, Haridwar, Uttaranchal.
Tele: +91 (1334) 260741
Description: Dear Devotees, Rooms are available or accommodation near Iskon at nominal maintenance charges in Shri Ram Sharnam Ashram situated at Haridwar & Vrindavan, India.
Visit our website: www.ramsharnamashram.com, email: ramsharnamashram [at] yahoo.com


Yog-Ganga Centre For Yoga Studies
Address: 101 Old Rajpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand  248001
Instructors: Swati and Rajiv Chanchani
Description: - Pupil of B.K.S. Iyengar since 1975
- Have taught at leading institutions in India and overseas
- Have evolved a yoga syllabus for school children.


For listings in the City of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, please see:
Yoga Centres and Schools of Rishikesh

~ Central India ~

Madhya Pradesh

Paramanand Institute of Yoga Sciences & Research
Address: Paramanand Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Instructor: Om Prakash Baweja
Description: The unique techniques taught here beautify & purify your Body, Mind, Intellect, Brain and Soul. Millions have benefited from various teachings guided by Swamiji himself and his beloved disciple Baba Om. This institute promotes not only physical fitness but also spiritual realization.


Yoga and Psychotherapy Association of India
Address: BDS-1, Sagar University, Gour Nagar, Sagar-470003
President: Prof. Ganesh Shankar
Description: Yoga and psychotherapy Association of India is an official organization registered under the Society Act at Sagar (M.P.). This association is also affiliated with the World Council for Psychotherapy, (WCP) based in Vienna, Austria.


Yoga Way International
Address: E-8/290, Trilochan Nagar, Saha Pura, Bhopal (M.P.)
Contact: Email: arun_231248 [at] hotmail.com
Website/Links: www.yogaway-International.com
Instructor: Dr. Arun Raghuwanshi
Yoga Style: Scientific/free style based on Classical Yoga
Specialties: Guides spiritual seekers in Kundalini awakening and self realization (Enlightenment).
Description: Arun Raghuwanshi is an International Yoga Master, with 40 years of experience in the field of yoga. He has been a Professor of Life science in Bhopal university, Bhopal (M.P.), India for the last 30 years. Besides teaching Ecology in his department, he was involved in teaching the scientific aspects of yoga in the Yoga Science Department of the University for quite some time. Recently he has visited Canada and America collecting Literature for his D.Sc. research work on Environmental ethics in which Green Yoga is an important component of his thesis. During his stay abroad he visited several universities and also many yoga studios, gathering rich information and gaining first hand knowledge in state of the art Yoga.
Dr. Arun Raghuwashi teaches and preaches yoga free personally and through his website.
He helps yoga students/teacher-trainees in preparing projects and theory papers and practical aspects when needed. He is always ready to interact with yoga students and people interested in yoga to provide resources for deeper understanding of Yoga techniques.

~ Indian West Coast ~

Gujarat

Shanti Darshanam Yoga at Shanti Mandir Ashram
Address: Shanti Mandir At Village Magod, Mahafalia. Post: Atul, Dist. Valsad 396 020.  Gujarat
Email: info@shantarasa.com.au
Description: Shanti Darshanam-a living path of yoga: New Courses from 3 January - 4 February 2011. 35 day residential courses in yoga teacher training, philosophy and practice in Swami Nityananda's ashram in Magod, India. For details contact Sadhana by email or visit the website.


Goa:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/goa.htm

Maharashtra

Bharatiya Yoga Vidya Dham
Address: Yogabhavan, College Road, Nasik, Maharashtra  422005
Description: Yoga Vidya Dham is a Gurukul (University) which imparts Yoga training to students and those aspiring to be yoga teachers. It runs a well equiped Yoga & Naturopathy treatment center. Yoga Vidya Dham has 150 Branches all over India.


Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute
Address: Lonavala, Maharasthra
Contact: Phone: 00919769695135  /  Email: kdham.alumni [at] gmail.com
Website: www.kdham.com  |  Yoga Links
Yoga Style: Traditional
Specialties: Yoga Research
Description: Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute is one of India's oldest traditional schools. Stress is given on the age old methods of practising yoga. It is also one of the oldest yogic research institutes.


Parmarth Niketan Ashram
Locations: 1. Mumbai, Maharashtra - 5, sagar kunj,78, Nepean Sea Road, Mumbai  400006
2. Rishikesh, Uttarakhand - On the banks of the Holy Ganges River.
Instructor: Mrs. Pratibha Joshi
Description: Spiritual reunion of body and soul through yoga. Ancient and traditional forms of yoga are taught. Some of the classes are in English for our frequent Western guests and others are in Hindi.

~ Eastern India ~

West Bengal

Indian Board of Alternative Medicine
Address: 80, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta - 700020.
Instructor: Dr. Suresh Kumar Agarwal. M.D. (Yoga and Naturopathy).
Description: One of the largest open international educational academies and a premier institution in the field of alternative / complementary medicine and health promotion duly incorporated under Act XXVI of 1961 (Regd. No. S/68765 of 1991-1992) of the Government of West Bengal.


Ramakrishna Temple at Belur Math
Address: P.O. Belur Math-711202, Dist Howrah, West Bengal  - an hour's drive from Kolkata
Contact: Tel: (91-33-) 2654-1144
Website: www.belurmath.org
Yoga Style: Practical Vedanta
Description: Belur Math, sprawling over forty acres of land on the western bank of the Hooghly (Ganga), is a place of pilgrimage for people from all over the world professing different religious faiths. Even people not interested in religion come here for the peace it exudes.
The serene campus of Belur Math includes temples dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda, in which their relics are enshrined, and the main monastery of the Ramakrishna Order.

~ South India ~

Andhra Pradesh

Kaivalya Yoga Vignana Kendra
Address: 7-1-282/C/1/19, Lingaiahnagar, Balkampet, Hyderabad
Description: We Teach and preach yoga for the benefit of everyone. We conduct General Yoga Classes, Yoga Therapy and Yoga Instructor/Teacher Training and PGDYT Courses.
Contact: kaivalyayogakendra [at] yahoo.com


Karnataka:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/karnataka.htm
Kerala:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/kerala.htm
Tamil Nadu:  www.yoga-centers-directory.net/india/tamil_nadu.htm

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