Himalayan Yoga

India, right from the ancient times has been known as the center for meditation. It has taught the people around the world of how to get a better control of one’s body and lead a stress free and healthy life. Established in the year 1997, at Sriniwaspuri, New Delhi, India, we 'Himalayan Yoga,' are one of the leading yoga teaching institutions in India today. The services offered by us includes meditation therapy, corporate yoga training, corporate health workshop, emotional freedom therapy, accu yoga reflexology, preventive health management programs, tension relief techniques, tension relief therapy, yoga for specific diseasesand health yoga.

Our teaching initiatives are led by Mr. Vikram Bhandari. Having started practicing yogaat the tender age of five, he has with him a strong understanding of the asanas and its derived benefits. To further augment his field knowledge, he also learned the finer aspects of traditional Naturopathy, which has helped him to present in front of the people a more refined aspect of leading a healthy life - naturally. Presently, working as a professional yoga trainer/therapist, his yoga teaching initiatives are well supported by trained teachers, which help us to provide a personalized touch to the training provided. A Proprietorship Firm, today, we have emerged as a leading yoga teaching center that makes people understand the derived benefits of yoga through asanas, pranayamas, meditation, lectures & reflective actions. Presently, we are catering to clients based in Delhi and NCR region, which include corporate, multinational companies as well as residential societies. Providing face to the popularity of our teachings in the domestic region, our clients include many renowned companies like HCL Technology, Hind Group, Cognizant Group, Cognizant and ERM Sol.

The pleasant aura that surrounds him is a testimony to years of practice devoted to understanding physiology & psychology of the human body. His extensive and in-depth knowledge of the human anatomy also provides him an edge while teaching yoga asanas. Transforming the way people look at life, his accurately designed teaching modules help in making people more positive, healthy and totally in control of their present life.

Making people understand of how to have a better control of one’s body through dynamic asanas, pranayamas, meditation and reflective actions, presently, he is engaged in a wide range of activities. These include:

• Presenting yoga sessions on Indian national television through television studio in Delhi & Rishikesh
• Working as principle designer of special programmes like tension relief therapy, prevention and management of health, facial yoga, kid's yoga, emotional freedom therapy, sports yoga and corporate yoga
• Working as a lead designer & implementer of regular teachers training programme

He also holds expertise in finely combining the skills of Yoga and Naturopathy, which helps us to successfully address many health related issues faced by the people today.

Modern yoga is based on 195 sutras or concise aphorisms that are blueprints for living a healthy and moral life. The Yoga Sutra by Patanjali, the creator of yoga, shows there is more to yoga that can help people cultivate body, mind & spiritual awareness.

The eightfold path of yoga is suggestions for living a better life while utilizing the derived benefits. These includes:

Yama:

It is social behaviour of how you treat others & the world around you. There are five yamas:

• Nonviolence (ahimsa)
• Truth and honesty (satya)
• Non stealing (asteya)
• Non lust (brahmacharya)
• Non possessiveness (aparigraha)

Niyama:

It teaches inner discipline & responsibility of how we treat ourselves. There are five niyamas:

• Purity (shauca)
• Contentment (santosha)
• Austerity (tapas)
• Study of the sacred text (svadhyaya)
• Living with an awareness of the divine (ishvara-pranidhana)

Asana:

Practice of asana/ postures as part of the exercise regimen that shows people ways to stay fit and healthy.

Pranayama:

It is the control of breath through different breathing movements like inhalation, retention of breath and exhalation. The benefits of pranayama include:

• Purifying and removing distractions from the mind
• Making it easier to concentrate & meditate

Pratyahara:

Comprising of withdrawal of the senses, it can be mastered through meditation; breathing exercises or though practice of yoga postures.

Dharana:

It involves teaching the mind to better focus on one point or image.

Dhyana:

Also known as uninterrupted meditation, dhyana (concentration) helps a person to meditate and create heightened awareness & oneness with the universe.

Samadhi:

The ultimate goal of eightfold path to yoga is samadhi (absolute bliss). This is pure contemplation and super consciousness state in which the person and the universe becomes one.

These eight limbs work together, where the first five steps yama, niyama asana, pranayama, & pratyahara are the preliminaries of yoga and the last three are concerned with reconditioning the mind.

Our well developed Corporate yoga sessions offer a range of programs that is geared to reduce stress at every stage and reduce complications in today’s hectic life style.  Some of the programs includes emotional freedom therapy, accu yoga reflexology, preventive health management programs, tension relief techniques, tension relief therapy  and others. These well designed programs contain a fine selection of yoga techniques that besides stress management also help in increasing productivity.

The main components of corporate yoga teaching includes:

• Learning easy postures with slow rhythmic breathing
• Learning techniques to release deep-seated stresses
• Learning deep relaxation techniques

Program Benefits:

• Promotion of positive health at mental, emotional, physical and social plane
• Bringing improved efficiency in performance
• Prevention & self-management of stress ailments like insomnia, hypertension and angina
• Building effective team spirit
• Enhancing the personal life of the participants

Our Contribution towards a Healthy Life for All:

• The professional and integrated yoga approach practiced and taught by us allows students to learn yoga through well developed practical & theory sessions
• We provide participants a suitable environment for learning the finer aspects of yoga
• Our well designed and managed sessions are never overcrowded, which ensure personal attention is provided to each and every participant
• Our in-depth teaching knowledge also allows us to successfully cater to the learning needs of beginners, intermediate learners and advanced learners

An ancient art of leading a healthy and stress free life, the reference to yoga dates back to Hindu scriptures, especially in Gita, Upanishads and other Puranas. Our in-depth understanding of this yogic science helps us in making learners understand the finer aspects of the involved preliminary asanas as well as advanced yogic techniques like cyclic meditation, sudarshana kriya, yoga nidra and vipassadhana.

The teaching areas covered by us include:

We hold expertise in creating customized yoga sessions that can be practiced and followed by all. All the classes comprise of pranayama and set of asanas covering all possible body movements and meditation techniques. Our team of experienced yoga teachers also helps us to make finer adjustments for accommodating people with different physical abilities ranging from experts to people with ailments.

The integrated & systematic approach to yoga practiced and taught by us helps us to create a positive health effect for the practitioners. This includes enhancing their physiological health as well as psychological well being. If practiced on a long term basis, it can also have a significant effect on a person’s health including curing existing health problems.

Some of the ailments that can be treated through yoga therapy include:

• Bronchial asthma
• Nasal allergy
• Chronic bronchitis
• Diabetes
• Thyrotoxicosis
• Obesity
• High and low blood pressure
• Ischemic heart diseases (HID)
• Controlling breathing movements for heart patients & elderly people
• Migraine
• Tension
• Headache
• Anxiety neurosis
• Depressive neurosis
• Rheumatism
• Back pain
• Arthritis
• Gastritis & peptic ulcer
• Chronic diarrhoea
• Dysentery
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Ophthalmic disorders like short sight & long site; astigmatism, squint as well as initial stages of cataract and glaucoma
• Mental retardation

Apart from providing cures from above mentioned diseases, the regular practicing of yoga also helps in:

Body Cleansing:

The regular practice of yoga helps in cleaning the presence of free radicals in the body, which are developed due to accumulation of toxins in the body. The unregulated & undisciplined lifestyle, the food we eat, the quality of air we breathe, the water we drink as well as the involved emotional pressures are basic reasons for secretion of hormones that have a tendency to leave behind toxins.

With its two pronged approach, yoga aims at successfully developing attitudinal changes that prevents the build up of toxins through practicing & meditative techniques. Aimed at detoxifying the body and mind, these techniques called Shatkarmas are aimed at providing benefits to specific areas of the body thus having maximum impact upon a person’s health.

Benefits of Cleansing:

• Help to develop immunity by eliminating toxins
• Stimulating mind & aiding in removing lethargy
• Washing the colon and sinus tracts
• Provides massaging effect to areas applied thereby stimulating effective working of the organs
• Stimulating vitality and helping in retardation of ageing
• Enhances a person’s capacity to think, digest, taste, feel and express
• Increases the awareness of the surroundings

Yoga and Pregnancy:

Yoga also benefits the pregnant ladies ensuring smooth pregnancy tenure. Enhancing the physical and mental development of the foetus, the yoga exercises involved include:

• Gently working on the reproductive organs & pelvis to ensure smooth pregnancy and a relatively easy childbirth
• Using Pranayama technique to ensure abundant supply of oxygen and a better environment for would be mothers and their children
• Practicing Mudras and Bandhas that have powerful effect on woman’s reproductive organs
• Using Meditation as a therapeutic tool that helps in resolving the deepest of neuroses and conflicts, which are common during pregnancy
• Using Deep Relaxation techniques for physical and mental relaxation as well as for preparing mothers for childbirth

Besides the active participation of our mentor in each and every involved activity, we also have with us service support of a team of 20 yoga teachers. They are carefully selected on the basis of their perfect understanding of the different asanas practiced. Further, our management also ensure that they are taught new and innovative teaching techniques that are not only more beneficial but are also easier to practice.

Our consistent approach towards teaching people a better and more effective technique for practicing yoga has helped us to successfully cater to clients including Corporate and Residential Societies based in Delhi and NCR region. Some of the clients who are associated with us include:

• HCL Technology
• Hind Group
• Cognizant Group
• Cognizant ERM Sol