Travel Information

Travel Information

• Travel Information (How To Reach?)
• Weather Conditions

Travel Information (How To Reach?)

Nasik city is 170 KM from Mumbai (formerly Bombay)

Nasik is about 1800 Ft or 580 metres above sea level.

Regular Trains, Bus service and Taxi services are available to reach Nasik. We can also provide an airport pickup service directly to our ashram. Click for more details.

For information about the Teacher training course, you may contact our affiliated centres and ask about the feedback and other enquiries. Click here to contact.

Weather Conditions

• December - January - February - temperatures 10 to 28 degrees celcius (50 - 83 Fahrenheit) Winter time - Warm clothes are required
• March - temperatures 18 degrees to 32 degrees celcius (64 - 90 Fahrenheit) Spring
• April - May - June - temperatures 24 degrees to 40 degrees celcius (75 - 104 Fahrenheit) Summer - Warm to hot
• July- August - September - temperatures 15 degrees to 35 degrees celcius (60 - 95 Fahrenheit) Rainy season Monsoon - Rainy clothes are required
• October - November - temperatures 18 degrees to 35 degrees celcius (65 - 95 Fahrenheit) Warm during the day and little cold mornings/ evenings

Yoga Style

• Our Yoga Style
• Spiritual Tradition Our School
• Teaching Staff
• BKS Iyenger Visit

Style of Yoga & Tradition of Our School / Guru

We teach INDIAN TRADITIONAL YOGA. Our School is joined to the great tradition of Swami Satyananda Saraswati of Bihar School of Yoga. Paramhansa Swami Niranjananda Saraswati initiated Rishi Dharma Jyoti (Yogacharya Vishwas Mandlik) into Rishi Sannayasa and joined Yoga Vidya Dham on 7th March 2006 to the spiritual tradition of Sage Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Sivananda and Swami Satyananda

(Please note that Certification and Training is given by Yoga Vidya Gurukul, it is not a part of Bihar Yoga / Bihar Yoga Bharati.)

Before applying please read the following articles on Asana and the style of yoga we teach. We teach as per the traditional Indian Style of Yoga, according to the classical books of Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Ashtanga Yoga based on Patanjali Yoga Sutras.

• What is Hatha Yoga?
• What is Ashtanga Yoga?
• Our views on hot yoga
• Articles on Asanas Asana (Classification, Levels and method of mastering the Asanas)
• Article on Pranayama - Pranayama as mentioned in Hatha Yoga

Spiritual Tradition of Our School / Guru

This course is for beginners who want to learn and teach in a way which is as per the Hatha & Ashtanga yoga traditions. This course covers Yoga from basic to advanced techniques from the classical texts of Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga. (Hatha Pradipika & Patanjal Yoga Sutras.) Yoga philosophy, education, yoga therapy are subject of study, research dedication. Yoga Vidya Gurukul has been operational since the last 40 years in various parts of India and abroad. We run 2 Yoga therapy hospitals and 12 yoga therapy out patient clinics. The experience gathered during these years helps students.

Teaching Staff

BKS Iyenger Visit

On 21st September 2008, BKS Iyengar visited Yoga Vidya Gurukul ashram in Trimbak, and addressed the Yoga teachers and students attending Yoga teacher training course and talked on his own experiences and various Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, he enlightened the students with his great guidance on the Yogic path..

Click for Photos of BKS Iyengar in Yoga Vidya Gurukul & www.yogapoint.com

BKS Iyenger Visit to Yoga Point -

"I am taken to heaven at Yoga Vidya Gurukul as the place is blessed with the bounty of nature and yoga being a natural method in evolving each individual in yogic sadhana, those who practice here are already blessed by God with good environment. May yoga flourish in these beautiful surroundings. May Patanjalis blessings be upon all Sadhakas.

- BKS Iyengar