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Our History and Vision

Our school’s ethos is Yoga For Everyone.
We are a Holy Family — a global community practicing yoga and meditation in the context of an Ayurvedic, karma yoga lifestyle of peace and service — in Rishikesh.

Brought together by divine design, our directors, teachers, curriculum and all understandings of our community have been collected and curated through lifetimes.

All course details and program formatting are designed for students to learn and practice techniques taken from the ancient yogic philosophy, including relaxation for healing, strength, and body/mind/spirit coherence. Course Details

Our founding director and Yoga Teacher Training course instructor, Sanjay Dogra, has a wide range of yoga knowledge of training people from many countries and is always renewing his knowledge in self practice and continued studies.

With over 5 years experience living and working in the yoga community in Rishikesh, now we are ready to spread this light and energy of knowledge — Knowledge of healthy and happy yogi life style — with the world.

About Founder

Sanjay was born in Himalayan village Puldiyana in August 91.
He completed his 5 Lakhs Namha Shivaye Japa at the age of 14 while studying in class 8th, and has completed bachelors and diploma degrees in economics, panchkarma, and ayurveda therapy.

Since 2014, Mr. Dogra has been practicing Ayurveda Massage in his studio on Laxman Jhula Road, at Sant Sev Ashram.

Our Work

Rishikesh Yoga Foundation offers immersion Retreats, as well as short and long term courses for the study of Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda Therapy. Our Yoga Teacher Training courses and retreats use traditional “Hatha” scriptures and reference, but are integrated with elements from many different styles of yoga.
Rishikesh Yoga Foundation Trust is a charitable organization. All tuition revenue is invested directly in Rishikesh community development. Our facilities, program design, curriculum, excursions, are dependent on community economics — i.e. what’s mine is yours, — for yogis in Rishikesh and beyond.
Our business design and pricing schemes are built to engage as wide an audience as possible, regardless of students’ financial status. We acknowledge the dangerous, divisive reality of global economic inequality, and have created RYF Trust to keep community funds in the community, investing and reinvesting for the growth of Yoga for Everyone, increasing the world’s understanding and practice of yogic lifestyle.
In coming years and decades, we plan to establish many safe, sacred spaces for students and seekers to enjoy: public ashrams, library, gardens and farms, for starters.
To learn more about our starving artist rates and our student scholarship fund, visit Our Programme page.

What Makes RYF Different?

Rishikesh

Study yoga where it all began! Experience bliss at our location in Rishikesh, a holy city nested between the sacred Ganga river and the magnificent Himalayan mountains, where knowledge and practice of yoga has been a part of life for all of recorded history.

Class size

Unlike other courses with 50-100+ students, our classes are typically 5-15 people and cap our courses at 25 students. You’ll have more opportunities for feedback, questions, and most importantly time to practice teaching.

Our experienced teachers

Our world-class faculty includes Masters in Yoga. Our teachers have come from Rishikesh and beyond, taught all across India, in China, and are respected as the top authorities on traditional yoga and its philosophies. All of our classes are instructed in English.

Our motto

Rishikesh Yoga Foundation believes yoga is for everyone. Every month we host a community building week of donation based classes, so we can welcome yogis from all walks of life, especially including local youth and tight-budgeted travelers. Our ashram in Rishikesh is made possible by providential grace. Cooperative economics works!