Our Team of Professional Yoga Teachers

Dr. Jivasu

Jivasu’s (Pradeep Kumar) teachings are called as Naturality or Sahajta. Naturality is to ‘to live according to our nature’ and ‘walk our own path’. His teachings explore the fear of death (and life) and freedom from that fear. He experienced his first awakening during his stay in Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, which culminated in the realization that death is not the end of life. Only body and mind die but the consciousness is immortal.

He found his Guru in Shirdi Sai Baba. For him, Baba is the perfect embodiment of Naturality and Sanatan Dharma (timeless spirituality).

Born in 1956, Jivasu was trained as a pediatrician in India. He with his wife Karen served as voluntary medical doctors in the remote villages of Uttarakhand Himalayas. Currently, Jivasu is teaching Naturality programs in Canada, India and other countries.

He is the author of many books including: Sai Sadhna, Meditation: A Path of Relaxation, Awareness, and Expansion of Awareness, Naturality, Science of Naturality, From Death to Immortality. Website – www.naturalitypath.com

Yogacharya Bhuwan Chandra

A native of the Greater Himalayas, with a Master’s degree in Yoga from the Uttaranchal Sanskrit University (Haridwar campus), Bhuwan Chandra is a recognized professional Indian Classical Musician and nada yogi. In 2008, he founded the Nad Yoga Trust to spread his knowledge on nada yoga and then began to organize the annual International Yoga and Music Festival. He has participated actively participated in yoga festivals, seminars and music concerts all over India and abroad. Enriched by with this experience and having understood the intricate connection of between music and the body chakra mechanism, he has created a holistic approach to yoga through the science of music (Nada), thus bringing a fresh approach to the yoga sequences. Through intensive research on Nada Yoga, he has developed various new techniques to enrich the yogic experience. His Sitar performance can incite the innermost sentiments and invigorate the nadis (nerve centers): Bhuwanji is one of the few qualified guides able to conduct you through the practical elements of Nada Yoga.

Yogi Tara Ji

Yogi Tara has been practicing yoga since his childhood and has studied Raja, Hatha, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa Yoga.

His formal university education began with studying Sanskrit in which he obtained both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Sanskrit University Haridwar. He went on to further his education and follow his true calling by also completing a Masters in Yogic Science and Vedic Philosophy at the same university.

Tara Ji’s passion for teaching began early on in life when he started to give Asana classes at Yoga-Music Culture Center. This budding passion blossomed and grew as did his knowledge and personal experience. Then he started traveling around the world to explore his knowledge and experience.

Tara Ji has been teaching since 2009 & giving Yoga Trainings & Workshops at many different Yoga Schools around the World. He now teaches classes specializing in Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Alignment, Philosophy, and Sanskrit mantra chanting.

In his teaching career, he hopes to bring to his students a deeper understanding of the true meaning of Yoga by bringing together Physical Practice, Theory as well as his personal experience.

Tara Ji defines his success as being those moments in which imparting his knowledge and interacting with his students brings about a transformational change in their lives. He lives to spread peace, love, happiness, and health to all.

Dr. Usha Vaishnava

Having studied Ayurveda & Herbal Medicine at the famous 150-year-old Gurukul Kangri in Kanpur (renamed Kanpur University in 1966), Dr. Usha completed her internationally recognized Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (B.A.M.S.) in 1997. Her competence is evident in her extensive and varied experience during the past 17 years, having shared her expertise as a lecturer of Kaya Chikitsa at Himalaya Ayurvedic College (Bareilly, U.P.), as a trainee physician in Arya Vaidya Sala (Kottakkal, Kerala) and Panchkarma specialist at Bhole Baba Ayurvedic Hospital & Research Center (Ranikhet, Uttarakhand). She is currently a chief consultant and manager of the Ayurveda Nirvana clinic in Rishikesh, providing such services as detailed consultations, prakriti analysis, basic to advanced level Ayurveda courses, Panchakarma treatments and is a respected instructor of Ayurveda in our Yoga Teacher Training Programs.

Yogacharya Mohan Panwar

Born in a Vedic family, Yogacharya Mohan Panwar began the path of yoga at the age of 15. He completed his P.G.D.Y from H.N B. Garhwal University and M.Sc. in yoga from Uttrakhand Open University. He is the master of Hatha Yoga with 10 years of teaching experience all over India.

His deep understanding of body alignment and asana makes him an excellent teacher to give basic comprehension over the human body.

Yogacharya Mohan’s classes are an amalgamation of professionalism, competence, strictness with considerate softness and a good sense of humor, which makes his classes extremely effective and enthusiastically balanced. He is a passionate teacher with zeal to discover something new in each and every student…. He is a motivating master, professional teacher, an incredibly awesome person by heart.

Joshita Arora

Since Joshita was a child, the word Meditation always intrigued her. The roots and foundation given by her mother, she started to practice Yoga and Meditation at a very young age.

Joshita began to learn in depth knowledge of Hatha Yoga at The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Delhi in 2013. After finding its profound benefits with the daily practice of Asanas, Pranayama, Meditation and Karma Yoga, it completely changed her perspective of the body, mind, energy and spirituality. She then completed the Teacher Training Course with The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre at Dhanwantari Ashram in Neyyar Dam, Kerala.

The call for sharing this knowledge was so deep in her that she started to teach Hatha Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation at their centre in New Delhi.

Her curiosity to explore different aspects of Yoga led her to Rishikesh and Asian Countries where she studied and still continues to learn by intensively participating in different forms of Yoga, workshops and courses.

She is a certified Yoga Nidra Facilitator and also offers Yoga Nidra workshops. Joshita has been teaching Yoga and Meditation (theory with practice) at Nada Yoga School in Rishikesh, India.

She loves to bring enthusiasm and dynamism to her classes and finds teaching Yoga and Meditation the most fulfilling path as it helps her to know herself in so many ways.

Swami Atma Jnanananda Giri

Swami Atma Jnanananda Giri is a Homeopathic doctor from Kerala, residing in Rishikesh since 11 years. He learned yoga meditation from Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama ashram, Vedanta (knowledge of Indian Philosophy) from Dayananda ashram, and is currently leading students on the path of yoga and meditation. He offers insightful lectures on these topics as well as philosophy, and draws his inspiration of enlightenment practices from the Mandukya Upanishad. The students are guided to a state of relaxation through Yoga Nidra and are taught exercises to optimize the functioning of joints and glands and purification of the nadis, to help the prana flow throughout the body. The Bhagavad Gita is presented as a scripture beyond religion and its relationship to yoga is explored. Learners are brought to an understanding of yoga as a way of life and a means of achieving balance within themselves in a stressful and fast-paced existence, rather than exclusively as physical exercise.

Yogiji Yogendra Mishra

Yogendra Mishra (commonly known as “Yogiji”) is a senior Yogi and meditation master. He also holds a masters degree from Agra University in philosophy, as well as a physical education science degree from Amravati University. You will find him at Nada Yoga School (which is his second home), when he is not teaching in Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada or the US. Yogiji has been a Yoga teacher for 30 years. He has also taken part in several Yoga research projects determining the association of Yoga and well-being.

Upcoming Yoga Teacher Training courses

Nada Yoga Teacher Training Course in India:

We are delighted to offer a unique nada yoga (the yoga of sound) teacher training as a part of our 200-hour yoga teacher training course. This course will be held at Nada Yoga School, near the banks of river Ganges and will be taught by best nada yogi of Rishikesh… Learn More

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India:

This 200-hour yoga teacher training course in Rishikesh at Nada Yoga School will be conducted by our team of accomplished teachers, including a reputed Ayurvedic doctor and a Nada yogi, who feel privileged to share their knowledge and practice of ancient traditions, while incorporating elements of medical sciences (Yoga Anatomy and Physiology)… Learn More

Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training in India:

Nada Yoga School and Naturality offer a comprehensive and unique 200 hour Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Program in the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred river Ganga, surrounded by the foothills of the Himalayas. This program will provide training in both the art and science of Yoga and Meditation…. Learn More

Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India

This comprehensive and unique 200 hour Certification Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program in the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred river Ganga, surrounded by the foothills of the Himalayas will be organized by Nada Yoga School and Naturality. This program will provide training in both the art and science of Yoga, Kundalini and Chakras… Learn More