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Journey of Healing and New Beginnings

Swami Sumitananda Ji

The founder's life was turned upside down by the diagnosis of cancer. He was a businessman and resident of Delhi concentrating on his corporate and family life. But the diagnosis marked the day he had to rethink everything. Through his journey of treatment, the discovery of yoga led him to inner peace and healing.

That was the life-altering decision he made after surviving cancer. All that life involved leaving behind: his home in Delhi, the entire business, family, and his friends was left behind in his pursuit to move to Rishikesh, to live a life surrounded by those peaceful mountains and the Ganga River. It is here that he started another life chapter, dipping fully into the spiritual heart of yoga.

Today, he is running schools in Rishikesh, Goa, and Kerala, infusing his life into them. Being a businessman who turned a cancer survivor, the way he has shaped these schools to guide people towards healing, growth, and understanding more of yoga.

Visiting Instructor

Journey of Healing and New Beginnings

Yogi Buddhadeva Ji

Yogi Buddhadeva is an energetic, young and multidimensional personality. He is a self-realized spiritual guru and an enlightened being. He is a dynamic and pragmatic teacher (Acharya) of its own kind and a yogi full of life, vigor and eternal joy. Away from all sorts of traditional and ritualistic conventions, he is a yogi in the true sense best suited in present turbulent age to awaken humanity from its slumber to rise to its spiritual nature. A Kriya Yogi and an expert of Kundalini Tantra he seems to lead a normal worldly life with a heightened inner awareness and bliss all the time..

Furthering the works of his gurus he is ever engaged in teaching and spreading Yoga, modifying and simplifying the practices of Kriya Kundalini Yoga and bringing the art and science of Bhakti Yoga in a blissful and practical manner to the deserving and determined pupils. For over two decades he is spreading the message of spirituality, teaching the people, the science of Eternal Yogic Life. He is An internationally acclaimed propounder and teacher of meditation and yoga and a renowned expert in spiritual sciences like Reiki, Kundalini, Energy Healing, Reincarnation, Past Life Regression, etc.

Best Yoga Teachers

Our Experienced Yoga Teachers At Om Setu Yogashala

Shri Gukul Bisht

Anatomy  Philosphy

Gokul Bisht is a NET(National Eligibility Test)Qualified Rishikesh born yoga teacher. Only few people pass this examination(NET).He has done his Masters in Yoga from Sanskrit University, Haridwar,Uttarakhand. Also he has done Master in Computer Application(MCA) from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He has done certification in Ayurvedic Food & Nutrition(CAFN).He has been teaching Yoga for more than six years with different schools in Rishikesh. Mainly he has very deep knowledge of Shatkarma, pranayama and human anatomy and physiology. With great knowledge about body anatomy and yoga , he explains the spiritual and scientic effects of different yogic practices in body and mind.

Shri Bhupendra Nautiyal

Pranayama Meditation

Bhupendra Nautiyal is pranayama and mediation teacher in avdoot yoga and meditation peeth. He has done post graduation in yoga from Sanskrit university Haridwar. He is teaching breathing technique & meditation from 5 years. Bhupendra is passionate about pranayama and mediation. He teaches how to start you’re inside spiritual journey to go deeper in meditation.

Shri Pankaj Ji

Hatha  Alignment & Adjustment

Pankaj (Sonu), born in the scared birthplace of yoga, Rishikesh, has been immersed in the practice since 2008. A certified yoga teacher with a diploma from the Sanskrit University of Haridwar, he completed his 500-hour certification with Yoga Alliance USA in 2013. Practicing various forms including Hatha, Karma, Bhakti, Mantra and Gyan yoga , these experiences have profoundly transformed his life. Starting as a young student learning form traditional yoga masters in ashrams, he now integrates that wisdom into his teaching. Embracing a yogic lifestyle and adhering to the eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga, Sonu offers classes for beginners, intermediates, and advanced practitioners alike.

Deepa Mandal

Ashtanga   Vinyasa flow

Deepa is a Yoga Instructor, born and brought up in Rishikesh and gained the high end flexibility in Ashtanga & Vinyasa Yoga through regular deep practice. She is a Young Instructor specialised in Ashtanga & Vinyasa Yoga Traditions. For him Yoga is about the create the balance between strength and flexibility. Her Yoga Classes combines both strength and Portability in advanced Ashtanga & Vinyasa Yoga Style. Her Goal is to give each student a refreshed and renewed feeling through modification, alignment and adjustment of Yoga Postures.

Arti Sexana

Hatha Yoga & Ayurveda

Arti Sexana is indeed a very experienced Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher, who has been teaching for the last 8 Years. She has done her Masters Degree in Yoga from Jai Ram Ashram in Rishikesh. She has also done her Diploma in Ayurveda and Naturopathy and has keen interest in Meditation. According to her, she works closely with each student to teach about all aspects of Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda. I am a master in teaching traditional hatha yoga, mudras, bandhas, mantra and meditation, Yoga Nidra, Ayurveda, Yoga to balance tridoshas, food and nutrition, etc.

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