Folio I — The TeacherAbout / Bengaluru

A teacher who speaks fluent संस्कृतम्
and remembers your daughter’s name.

Three years teaching. Six years training. Twenty‑one centuries of method standing behind the morning. The room is small and the work is exact — nothing performed, nothing on autoplay, nothing announced.

PL. 02 Teacher at the doorway. Indiranagar studio, August. Linen kurta, brass lamp, a worn mat folded once.

Plate 02 / Indiranagar, Bengaluru.

Folio II — The Story, Told Straight

मेहनत Mehnatis the word. Honest work. You’ll feel it tomorrow.

I came to the mat the way most students do — a back that complained before meetings, a neck that announced itself at four in the afternoon. The first teacher I kept told me to stop looking for the pose and start looking for the breath. It took a year before that meant anything.

The training is named below — Isha, then Ashtanga, then a longer, quieter apprenticeship that doesn’t have certificates. What I teach is what those rooms taught me: precision before flow, breath before pose, attention before ambition.

I won’t ask you to chant. I will ask you to count your breath, more honestly than you’re used to, for an hour at a time. The room is in Indiranagar. The work travels through video when you’re elsewhere. The pricing is on the page.

Folio III — Lineage, Named

Three teachers. Traceable, named, alive.
Twenty‑one centuries of method behind them.

First teacher

The room before the room

A back‑pain referral that turned into an apprenticeship. Two years of pre‑dawn classes that taught the difference between bending and breathing.

Isha Foundation

RYT‑1750

Hatha Yoga as classical method — Surya Kriya, Yogasanas, Bhuta Shuddhi, Shakti Chalana Kriya. Taught the precision; insisted on it.

III

Ashtanga

500‑hour, Mysore lineage

Six days a week of the Primary Series. Counted breath, named pose, no music. The discipline that the studio still runs on.

Certification: RYT‑1750 + 500
Practice: Six years
Teaching since: Three years
Languages: EN · हिं · संस्कृत

Folio IV — A Tuesday, in DetailVoice — Pull‑Quote 02

A teaching day,
photographed without retouch.

“I won’t ask you to chant. I’ll ask you to breathe four counts longer than feels natural. That’s the whole assignment.”

The Teacher · In conversation, March

05:30: Sweep the room, fold three mats, fill the brass cup. The cat doesn't notice.
06:00: First student. Ashtanga primary, modified for a forty‑year‑old spine.
07:30: Second student. Founder, two months in. The breath is finally where the legs are.
11:00: Online cohort — eight people across three time zones. Pranayama, then questions.
18:00: Private, in‑studio. Back‑pain protocol, fourth week. The relief is the homework.

PL. 03 Mat unrolled, six in the morning. Window light only, no flash. Brass cup of warm water beside the bolster.

Plate 03 / Indiranagar, dawn.

PL. 04 Hands counting breath on a student's lower spine. Linen shawl, a tabla beat from a neighbour's room.

Plate 04 / Tuesday, between classes.

Folio V — To Begin

Show up Tuesday at six.
Eat something light by four. Bring water — that’s all.

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A teacher who speaks fluent संस्कृतम्and remembers your daughter’s name.