Smt. Ekta Bouderique

National Coordinator, Heartfulness Institute, Hyderabad

Ekta is a coordinator of Heartfulness Institute, following Pujya Daaji (Shri Kamles Patel) and is a Heartfulness trainer under his guidance as well as a registered yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance.

Dr. Elangovan

Former Registrar, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University (TNPESU)

Done Ph.D and honored with D.Litt (Hon). Having more than 39 years of Teaching experience; Served at many capacities in Universities as Vice-Chancellor Convenor's Committee, Registrar, Finance Officer, COE, Director, DDE. First Yoga Professor appointed officially by the Government of Tamil Nadu; Instrumental in the formation of Yoga Colleges in Tamil Nadu, in starting M.Phil and Ph.D in Yoga in Tamil Nadu; In introducing a number of innovative courses in Yoga; Visited five foreign countries; Produced 42 Ph.Ds in 5 Universities; authored seven books; published more than 400 articles and presented more than 200 papers in Conferences; Organized more than 250 conferences, workshops etc., including Yoga Mahotsav 2022 celebrations; Served in various UGC committees; Spoken more than 250 times as Guest Speakers; Honored with so many International Awards; Question Paper setter for UGC NET Exam; Senior Social Scientist approved once by ICSSR, New Delhi.

Dr. Fharzana Siraj

Founder, Orange Ray, Chennai

Ms. Fharzana Siraj is an acclaimed Yoga therapist , Acupuncturist and Holistic health coach. A PhD scholar with several years of practice, she has represented India in many national and international conferences. Hailed as one of top 16 most powerful yoginis by hellomyyoga, she gathers her inspiration from Iyengar Yoga.

She is the founder of Orange Ray a holistic health clinic in Çhénnáí which houses ancient healing sciences all under one roof. She specialises in treatment of chronic pain and non- communicable diseases without the use of chemicals. She is credited with spreading Yoga Therapy to Bangladesh 8 years back and now has an active practice there.

She extends her vast knowledge and experience in Holistic health to other countries through online consultations. She believes health is multi dimensional and hence the treatment should also be the same. 

Ganga Nandini

Yogacharya at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh

Ganga Nandini is a Yoga Teacher teaching at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh for over 12 years. She is a Spiritual Humanist, Young Leader and Karma Yogi who is deeply passionate about health, wellness and service. She serves as the Director of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, supervising and coordinating for the Divine Shakti Foundation, Ganga Action Parivar, Harijan Sevak Sangh- Uttarakhand and numerous other service initiatives. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, graduated from University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Cell Biology and Psychology. While living at Parmarth Niketan, she has experienced first hand the miracle of living and practicing a yogic lifestyle, having healed from Lupus, an autoimmune disorder she had been diagnosed with and suffered from for over 8 years with a history of ill-health from childhood. Today she lives with health and happiness and is enthusiastic to share the gift of yoga with all.

Prof. Jayaraman M

Life Member, Indian Yoga Association (IYA), Bengaluru 

Prof M Jayaraman, is serving as the Professor & Dean, Division of Yoga and Spirituality, SVYASA Deemed University. Earlier he served as the Director, Textual Research Department,of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, for a decade (2010-2021) and Indic Academy (2021-2022). Thus far, he has published 20 books & 19 peer reviewed Journal articles on Yoga and Sanskrit literature . He is involved in developing immersive learning methods of Yoga texts and digital repositories for Yoga texts.'Yogasya Bhasha' a four-part self-learning material on Sanskrit and Yoga & 'Yoga-vaisharadi' - a searchable web-repository on classical texts of Yoga are a few of his noteworthy contributions in recent times.

He is part of various academic boards and councils including the

• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library-CSIR, Govt of India (Task force

member (Yoga)

• Indian Yoga Association (Member, Editorial Board, Standard Publicity,Publication And Public Relations Committee)

Dr. Kambhampati Subrahmanyam

Vivekananda Kendra, Bengaluru 

Dr. Karuna Nagarajan

Co-founder of Svaraveda Foundation (Institute of music therapy and research), Bengaluru 

Dr. Karuna Nagarajan B. Com, MBA, M.Sc. (Yoga), PhD (Yoga)

• Associate Professor, Deputy Director of ODL, S-VYASA Deemed to be University

• Founder of Svaraveda Foundation, dedicated to Indian Music, Indian Music therapy Courses and research.

• Professor for Hatha Yoga and Patanjali Yoga Sutra at Vivekananda Yoga University, CA, USA.

Worked as expert committee member for curriculum development for UGC, NCTE, IGNOU, NIOS, Health Sector Skill Council (HSSC) and Quality Council of India (Yoga Scheme), Authored Yoga books for: National Council for Teacher Education - NCTE, National institute for Open Schooling (NIOS), IGNOU, Quality Council of India (QCI), HSSC & book on Indian Music Therapy.

Teaching experience: Hatha yoga texts, Yoga therapy, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad-Gita, Personality development for school children etc. from Aug 2007

Research papers in international journals on the effect of Indian music. Guiding Ph.D. scholars in Yoga Education and music therapy

Dr. Kousik Sarathy Sridharan

Faculty & Lead of Yoga-Tech initiatives, Dept. of HST, IITH

Assistant professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and the Dept. of Heritage Science and Technology, specializing in Neurotechnology and instrumentation for Yoga, Neuroelectric & neurovascular changes in nervous systems through Yoga.  

Shri. Madhava Madanapalli

Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (VYASA), Bengaluru

Madhava began his career in the insurance sector in 1987. After 13 years, he moved to the world of technology and has been working in the area of intersection of Insurance industry and technology. He has held global leadership positions in Wipro and IBM. In his last full time role, Madhava was heading the Insurance vertical for India and Middle East for Wipro. Madhava has lived in the Middle East and UK for over 7 years and has travelled over 13 countries in his career for business.

Madhava is currently helping set up a new disruptive health insurance company.

In addition, Madhava has been deeply involved in Yoga and Samskrita. He took a career break in 2007 to pursue a full time M.Sc in Yoga from SVYASA. His thesis was "How can Yoga help improve the health of the balance sheets of health insurance companies".

Smt. Mauli Bavisker

Founder and Executive Director, Damaru

P.G. DIP. Yoga Therapy, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RPYT 

Mauli Bavisker, Founder and Executive Director of Damaru Yoga and Sound Therapy Centre, is a designer by education, vocalist at heart and a practitioner of Yoga for life

• C-IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist and has three Masters Degrees in design, music and yoga. Advanced certifications from Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500 and RPYT) and an in-depth training in the Vedic Mantras from KYM

• A Svaram Alumni and one of the few Indian sound therapists who have practiced and trained under International Sound Expert, Aurelio Hammer

• She holds the position of Joint Secretary of IYA-GC

• Runs a not-for-profit public trust, Damaru Foundation, to support and conduct wellness initiatives for the underprivileged sections of the society

• Damaru has collaborated with KYM, Chennai - to conduct 800 hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program (YTTP)

• Awarded Best Paper Presentation at International Conference on Subtle Tools of Yoga Cikitsa conducted by KYM

Shri. Mayur Karthik

Head Trainer, Sri Sri School of Yoga

A young and dynamic faculty of the The Art of Living and Head Trainer of Sri Sri School of Yoga, Mayur Karthik has been practicing Yoga and training Yoga teachers under the tutelage of Spiritual Master and Global Humanitarian Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji. Amongst many other milestones, he has a Masters and B Tech from BITS Pilani and he has won many film festivals for his short films. Having trained more than 5000 Yoga teachers through various mediums in various countries in the past 11 years, he still continues to teach with same enthusiasm and zeal. 

Dr. Mohan Raghavan

Head, Dept. of HST, IITH

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Dept. of Heritage Science and Technology specializing in Computational Neuroscience, Spinal Cord and Movement, Yoga, Heritage data and analytics

Dr. Nidheesh Yadav

Coordinator, Dept. of Yoga Science, University of Patanajali, Haridwar

Dr Nidheesh Yadav is currently serving in Dept of Yoga science, University of Patanjali, Haridwar. He is basically an academician completes his bachelors in Ayurveda as BAMs in 2002. Then He served as Assistant Scientist at National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow then he persued his PGDiploma and Masters in Human Conciousness & Yogic Sciences. Then he persued his PhD in Yoga. 

He has served in Morarji Dasai National Institute of Yoga with various projects during 2009 to 2015 under guidance of Dr I V Basavaraddi Ji.  

He also served as Lecturer at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute from 2015 to 2017. Presently serving at Dept of Yoga Science, University of Patanjali Haridwar.

Apart from academics he is lead examiner for various YCBs. He had been deputed to Japan also for YCB Examination in 2018. He is Life Member of IYA, Life member of Patanjali Yogpeetha, Joint secretary for UttarPradesh Yogasana Sports Association, Joint Secretary for IYA Uttarakhand Chapter.  

Smt. Nrithya Jagannathan

Director, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram(KYM), Chennai

Nrithya Jagannathan is a senior yoga therapist from the Krishnamacharya tradition and was a student of renowned Yogacharya Sri T K V Desikachar for over a decade. With over 20 years of teaching experience, she is currently the Director of the KYM Institute of Yoga Studies, the training and certification wing of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. She has traveled extensively around the world to teach Yoga, Yoga therapy and Vedic Chanting and is a certified therapist from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C- IAYT). Nrithya is currently also on the Certification Committee of the IAYT. Nrithya is the chairperson of the IYA Tamilnadu State Subcommittee for Academic Courses and Examinations. She was honoured with the Yogini Award for Tamilnadu State by Eduglife Vishipsa in February 2023. Deeply passionate about all aspects of Indian literature, culture and philosophy, Nrithya is also the Editor in Chief of Darsanam, the Quarterly Journal on Yoga and Yoga Cikitsa of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram.

Smt. Padmini Rathore

Sadhaka, The Yoga Institute, Mumbai

Padmini, is a yoga sadhak and an Administrative Professional, served multiple organizations in India and USA.

 Padmini has a vast and varied work experience of 23 years with different genres and holds a good experience of Managerial skills. She also is an internationally certified Yoga Instructor and is actively associated with world’s oldest yoga organisation “The Yoga Institute”, Mumbai Non Profit Organization for helping the man kind for better health. 

Padmini has a Master’s degree in English Literature and few more diplomas’ and degrees’ acquired out of passion for knowledge.  

Padmini possesses effective and impressive administrative skills with result oriented managerial aptitude and is also a designer, aesthete, curator, writer-orator and voiceover artist by passion. 

Dr. Pranita Joshi Deshmukh

Professor and Research coordinator, MAM’ SS Ayurved College, Pune

MD Sharirkriya and PhD Ayu 

MA sanskrit , Hath Yoga expert

MBA BITS Pilani (Hospital Management )

DST IPR women scientist fellow 

NABH Assessor 

Ayurveda academician, researcher, and clinician with more than 15 years of total work experience. Currently working at MAM's Sumatibhai Shah Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Hadapsar, Pune in the capacity of Professor and HOD in the department of Sharir Kriya & Dept of Research Methodology and Medical Statistics. Handling additional responsibility of Research Coordinator at Maharashta Arogya Mandal Pune.Advanced Research-IPR- Corporate wellness trainer.A women scientist fellow of DBT Govt of India.Currently working on various government quality bodies as auditor.Office bearer and board member of the IYA Quality &Accreditation board for various quality standards of Yoga across India and the Goa State chapter.

Dr. Raghavendra Rao

Director, Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN)

Dr Raghavendra Rao Mohan completed his Bachelor’s degree in Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences with second rank from Mangalore University in 1998. He joined Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhan Samsthana, Bengaluru as a research fellow in 1998 and went onto become an assistant professor. He has completed several research projects in Rheumatoid arthritis, Prediabetes, Diabetes, CVD risk prevention and Cancer using both yoga and naturopathy interventions. He was a collaborator and Osher (Planning International Centers for Research and Collaboration) NIH fellow at UCSF School of medicine, Sanfrancisco from 2004-2006. He has 103 international research publications and two international book chapters with h-Index of 22. He has mentored several startups in yoga and wellness sector. He is currently the Director, Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt of India since 2019. 

Dr. Ramakrishna Upadrasta

Faculty, HST Dept, IITH

Associate Professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering & Dept. of Heritage Science and Technology specializing in Compilers, Language translations, Paninian Grammar, Samskritam, Indian Knowledge Systems

Dr. Ramanathan V

Faculty, IIT-BHU

Researches on topics related to surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Raman imaging and computational chemistry. Research interested in also the scientific heritage of India in particular and history of science in general. A Fulbright fellow and a former core committee member of INYAS (Indian National Young Academy of Science) and body of Indian National Science Academy. A member of the national research council on history of science. Chairman of Karnataka position paper on Knowledge of India, as a part of NEP 2020. Other interests include theory of carnatic classical music, swimming and playing badminton

Shri. Ravi T

Consultant, Indian Yoga Association (IYA)

• Former Joint Secretary and Consultant, Indian Yoga Association

• Yoga Domain Expert for NSDA under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

• Representative, Committee on formation of Department of Yoga, Naturopathy and Cognitive Sciences, BHAU Lucknow Central University, Lucknow

• Implementation and Coordination Officer, JICC, UP Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad

• Approval of SWAYAM MOOCS at S-VYASA Yoga University through AICTE under MoE for TEN Courses leading up to Yoga Teachers Training Course certificate and two courses each for Diabetes, Palliative Care and Hypertension with a total sanction of Rs 2.16 Cr

•Coordinator, Joint Working Group, AICTE-S-VYASA for Creation of Yoga MOOCs under SWAYAM, MHRD; Approval of SWAYAM MOOCs at S-VYASA Yoga University through AICTE under the MHRD (now MoE) for FOUR Courses leading Yoga Instructor's Course certificate with a sanction amount of Rs 57 Lakhs

Dr. Sampadananda Misra

Dean Culture, Director Centre for Human Sciences Rishihood University, Delhi

Dr. Sampadananda Mishra is working now as the Director, Center for Human Sciences, Rishihood University and Rishihood University, Sonipat. He also holds the position of Dean Culture in the same University. As a visiting faculty he teaches to the graduate and postgraduate students of the department of contemplative psychology at Sri Sri University, Odisha. At the Hindu University of America, USA Dr. Mishra at present is teaching a three semester course on Sanatana Dharma. Dr. Mishra has spoken at various conferences, seminars, and literary & religious festivals, both nationally and internationally on Sanskrit, Indian culture, Yoga and Education. In addition Dr. Mishra, as a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is familiar with their writings and feels comfortable in delivering lecture on Philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. 

Prof. Shyam Diwakar

Professor and Director, Amrita Mind Brain Center, Amrita University

Shyam Diwakar is the Director of the Amrita Mind Brain Center and a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus. He is the Institute Integration Coordinator and Co-investigator of VALUE (Virtual and Accessible Laboratories for Universalizing Education); a major virtual labs initiative supported by Sakshat mission of Ministry fo Education, Government of India, and Principal Investigator of few other projects funded by Department of Science and Technology. He was awarded the Young Faculty Research Fellowship by MeiTY, Government of India and the NVIDIA Innovation award on December 16, 2015 for his computational neuroscience work on GPUs. His center is starting a new M.Sc. degree on Yoga and Cognitive Sciences at Amrita University and his research is on neuroscience and modeling brain function. 

Dr. Sivasankara Sai

Registrar of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (SVYASA) University

Prof. S. Siva Sankara Sai, is currently the Registrar of S-VYASA Yoga University, Bangalore. Earlier he worked as Director of Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL), Puttaparthi, Sri Sathya Sai District. He also worked as HOD, Dean of Sciences Faculties and Convener of Advanced Research Center at Prashanti Nilayam Campus.

Member of the Board of Management (BOM) of SSSIHL & Other Universities.He is a Yoga practitioner and successfully completed Level 2 & Level 3 examinations of QCI through Yoga Certification Board (YCB) of the Ayush Department and is a scholar in Vedas. Adherence to these traditional systems is a part of his daily routine.

Dr. Sri Krishna Chandaka

Associate Professor Academy of Yoga Consciousness

Traditionally & Professionally trained in Yoga with a PhD in Yoga from Andhra University and MD in Alternate Medicine, Has PG Diploma in Yoga & Sanskrit, Masters in Philosophy from Andhra University. Founding Director of Yoga Health Clinic, Associate Professor at the Academy of Yoga Consciousness and Guest faculty at Andhra University. Member, Board of Studies many Universities/ Institutions. Designed and conducted numerous Yoga Training Programs, Camps for Private, Public & Government organizations. Certificate,Diploma ,Yoga Therapy, Masters programs apart from teaching University courses online & offline both in India and USA. Member, Yoga Professional Bodies .Invited Speaker for Many National & International conferences & presented papers, conducted Yoga Workshops

Shri. Subodh Tiwari

CEO, Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute & Research Center

As the CEO of Kaivalyadhama , Subodh Tiwari’s resolute efforts have been to achieve the mission of Promoting Yoga as a holistic science for health, healing, and self-development to contribute towards the social development of India. Tiwari was initiated into yoga and spiritual journey at a very young age at Kaivalyadhama. Tiwari is a senior committee member and advisor at various universities to promote Yoga in schools and colleges. He has been involved at the policy making and actively contributes to many Yoga and Wellness initiatives by GOI and GOM. He has also contributed to literary publications in the area of Yoga research. He is the Secretary General of the Indian Yoga Association, Board Member of Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Member of Governing Council for Inter- University Centre for Yogic Science UGC, Member of the Governing Council of the NCTE, Chairman of the Sub Group of Yoga CII. Member of the High-Level Task Force on Yoga Research by CCRYN. 

Shri. Udit Sheth

President, National Yogasana Sports Federation (NYSF)

• Managing Director - SE TransStadia Pvt. Ltd

• (Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2022 

• from Hon. President of India Smt.Droupadi Murmu) 

• President, TransStadia University

• Vice Chairman - SETCO Automotive Ltd.

• President, National Yogasana Sports Federation

• Vice President, Asian Yogasana 

• Vice President, World Yogasana

Shri. Vinay Siddaiah

Founder, Yogavijnana-Center for Yoga, Therapy and Research, Bengaluru

Vinay Siddaiah worked as a Principal Engineer in leading MNCs such as Western Digital, Sandisk, Intel, and Wipro. After having been teaching Yoga for 11+ years along with his IT job, he has dedicated his life to spreading the science of Yoga after 12+ years in the IT industry. He is an Internationally certified Yoga teacher who has in-depth knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics, and philosophy. He holds a Master's degree in Yoga, an RYT-500 level certified teacher from the Yoga alliance, Level-4 certified teacher (Highest level), and a certified Yoga Therapist from the AYUSH ministry. He has been teaching Yoga since 2010 and so far has trained over 2000 students worldwide. He is also the managing trustee of Yogavijnana Foundation (80G certified NGO) which is working on spreading the Science of Yoga without any financial gains.