about center

Tattvaa Yoga Shala is the only full-time, dedicated Ashtanga Yoga School in Rishikesh. The aim of the school is to help students to safely develop a personal Yoga practice with which they can create new levels of strength, flexibility and balance of body and mind. The center is committed to guide one to their full potential in physical, psychological and spiritual. The center offers 100-hour beginner level courses, 200-hour first series Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, 300-hour first and second series Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, 500-hour advanced Yoga teacher training and Pranayama teacher training courses. 

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a modern style of gymnastic exercises and stretching practiced in combination with yoga breathing and ancient yoga philosophy, it should not be confused with the actual historical Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali. Vinyasa here refers to the transition between any two different yoga postures.

Here yoga can be experienced on the banks of the River Ganges with the sun rising over the hills of the Himalayas. It could be Hatha Yoga and Surya Namaskar on the banks of the Ganges or Mantra Yoga as you chant during the Aarti ceremony at sunset.

Tattvaa Yoga Shala is a value-based business and relates directly to the practice of Yoga and reflects their values and desires to create a healthy and sustainable world focused on the interconnectedness and one-ness of humankind.

Teachers at Tattvaa Yoga Shala

Yogi Kamal Singh: Founder of Tattvaa Yoga Shala, Yogi Kamal Singh is known for his energetic and motivating Ashtanga classes in his inspirational yoga hall overlooking the holy Ganges river in Rishikesh. Students come from all over the world to take his classes and commonly practice with him for one or more months at a time. The results are oftentimes profound, students have returned home with straighter backs and clearer minds. He is also a Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, conducting teacher trainings and workshops internationally during the Indian off-season months.
Yogi Kamal holds numerous yoga certificates from organizations such as Bihar School of Yoga, Sivananda and Satananda Academies. He also earned a Master’s Degree in Yoga Studies from Garhwal University. He is also the founding member of Rishikesh Yoga Teacher Welfare Association.

Swami Vishwarupananda: Swami Vishwarupananda is a direct diciple of Sri Swami Krishnananda ji, Swami Chidananda ji Maharaj from Sivanand Ashram and Swami Niranjanand ji Maharaj from Bihar School of Yoga. He has been swami for more than 20 years with Bihar School and Sivananda Ashrams. He is a Master Yogi well versed in Hatha Yoga as taught in the Sivananda Tradition and Satyananda Tradition is his expertise.
Swami Vishwarupanandaji came to the Sivananda Ashram in the year 1990. As a young Brahmachari, he very soon excelled as an excellent Yoga practitioner and a master in Hatha Yoga. He studied with Pujya Sri Swami Krishnananda ji and Gurudev Swami Chidananda ji Maharaj from whom he took Mantra initiation in the year 1992. He also did a one-year Sannyasa Course under the tutelage of Sri Swami Niranjanananda ji Maharaj, at the Bihar School of Yoga where he learnt under Sri Swami Satyananda ji Maharaj. In the year 2005 he received SannyasaDiksha from Gurudev Swami Chidananda ji Maharaj.

Professor G.S.Sahay: A mentor of the school, Prof. G.S. Sahay, M.A. joined the world-renowned Yoga Research Institute in the year 1976 and worked as Research Officer in Philosophico-Literary Department, Kaivalyadhama (Lonavla) till his retirement in July 2011. He has around 34 years of teaching experience to the post graduate students at G.S. college of Yoga and cultural synthesis Lonavla , and taught Indian philosophy, Patanjali Yoga sutras, and Traditional Yogic texts .He has also delivered lectures in  different re-orientation programs organized for the teachers from the schools of Maharashtra and Central Govt. He has conducted various yoga camps and workshops on yoga in India as well as visited Seoul South Korea to conduct yoga courses. He is also co-editor of 12 books on Yoga published by Yoga Mimamsa publications.

Swami Omkarananda: Tattvaa Yoga Shala’s Mentor Swami Omkarananda grew up around the great lady saint of India, Ma Anandamayi. As a student of engineering he had a very close association with Gurudev Swami Chidanandaji, Maharaj of Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh. He has studied Vedanta and Sanskrit at ArshaVidya Gurukulam under Pujya Swami DayanandaSaraswati for three and half years. After completion of the course, he went on to do a PhD in Metaphysics at the Hong Kong University. Swami Omkarananda has multifaceted experience in the field of metaphysics, science of holistic living, dealing with Meditation, Yoga, Vedanta, healing, and parapsychology.

Dr. Sanjay Sharma: Dr Sanjay holds a PhD in Yoga and is a E-RYT 500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) from Yoga Alliance. Dr Sanjay started his yoga journey at the age of 17 in 1992 with Bhartiya Yoga Sansthan, New Delhi. Professionally his first yoga training was at HVPM, Amravati Maharashtra, India in 2000. Based on Kaivalyadhama style of traditional Hatha yoga and Iyengar style of Hatha yoga, Dr. Sanjay’s classes involve healthy practices that can give complete health (physically and mentally). He taught yoga to thousands of people of India, Dubai and Europe. He is the regular Teachers Training Teacher of Gems of Yoga Dubai and Tattva Yoga Shalla, Rishikesh India.
Also specialized in Pranayama and Meditation, his meditation teaching includes Om Meditation, Abstract meditation, Color Meditation, Energy centers, Trataka (Candle meditation), Yoga Nidra, Meditation for good sleep, Anapanasati, Vedic meditation etc.

Sunil Sharma: Sunil Sharma is trained in traditional and scientific Yoga from Kaivalyadhama, Lonavla, India. He is a Post Graduate in Psychology and has an International Diploma in Guidance and Counseling from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) New Delhi. He has been teaching yoga at various levels in India and abroad since 2001. He has also worked as Yoga Instructor in various Senior Secondary Schools under the scheme ‘Promotion of Yoga in Schools’ by Ministry of HRD Govt. of India. He has worked as Director of Yoga Teachers Training Department in ‘Yoga Summit’, Hangzhou, China. He has delivered lectures on Yoga and Philosophy, conducted Pranayama and Meditation workshops, Yoga Therapy Sessions for employees of corporate houses and Yoga Teachers Training courses from Year 2006 to 2010, during his stay in China.