About Arsha Yoga

Karma Yogis:
We invite Karma yogis to meet the daily activities of our ashrams and associated institutions.

The director of Arsha Yoga, Acharya Harilalji born 1970,comes from a traditional family in Kerala, South India. He was born and brought up in a traditional Indian environment with agriculture, Ayurveda, Vedanta and Yoga. After attaining the title ‘Yogacharya’, he lived and taught yoga in Sivananda ashram in Kerala, Delhi and the Himalayas. Later he studied and practiced yoga therapy at sVYASA -an university for yoga- in Karnataka and completed a full time diploma course with an ‘A’ grade. The subject of his thesis was ‘Integrated approach of yoga therapy for psychosomatic diseases’.
Curious to experience the western culture, which was the background of most of his students in India, he came to Germany for the first time in the spring of 2001 and continues to visit Europe ever since. He gives seminars and courses on Yoga Therapy in Prague (Czech Republic) and in Germany as well as individual yoga therapy. He is also Yoga acharya /Therapist in Nangelil Ayurveda Medical College near Ernakulam in South India.

SarojiniAmma,Born in 1934 in Kerala. Worked in government school for thirty years and retired as Head Mistress. She is one of the founder members of Arsha Yoga Trust and guides us with her wisdom gained from her experience-based life. As a wife of ‘Gandhian’ P T Ramachandran, she followed a simple and practical life. She is an inspiration to the Arsha yoga members on simple ashram living.

Meera Karanath, born 1980 in the Czech Republic is the wife of Harilal. Besides her profession as translator and interpreter she has completed the two years yoga teachers` training course in 2006 and one year yoga therapy instructors’ course in 2008. She also studied under Swami Prakasananda, Sathyananda Centre, Germany. After gaining experience for three years as a yoga teacher in Germany she continues her teaching practice in Prague, Czech Republic. She is the course coordinator of Arsha Yoga

Allied institutions and sites:

JanakaJananiKripa Gurukulam: www.jjkgurukulam.org

Yoga Vidya Speyer:www.yoga-vidya.de/speyer

Yogapoint: www.yogapoint.cz

Arsha Vidya Gurukulam:www.arshavidya.org