Yogi’s Upadesha
Notes from the centre — what a class actually involves, and how we work around the things people arrive with.
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Yoga for back pain, carefully
A desk, a commute up the GST Road and years of no stretching is the most common back in our hall. Here is what a practice can do about it, and where it stops.
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Morning or evening? Choosing your batch
Four times a day, five days a week. Which one suits you has less to do with yoga than with your commute, your sleep and who else is in the room.
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Yoga or the gym? An honest comparison
We teach yoga, so treat this with the suspicion it deserves — and then read the part where the gym wins, because there is one.
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How many days a week should you do yoga?
The honest answer is not the one that sounds most impressive. Four ordinary mornings beat two heroic ones, and the number you can keep is worth more than the number you can manage.
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The 108 Suryanamaskar non-stop challenge
One hundred and eight sun salutations. No breaks, no skipped rounds, on sand, in June. This is what we set our students on 12 June 2026, and what it took to finish it.
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International Yoga Day on the beach
On 12 June 2026 we took the whole centre out of the hall and onto the sand at the Blue Flag beach in Chennai, for International Yoga Day 2026. Mats, towels, children, parents, the water coming up behind us. These are the photographs.
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Yoga classes for children in New Perungalathur
Children are on the mats in almost every batch we run. Parents searching for a yoga class for children near them want to know three things: what their child will do, whether it is safe, and whether they have to sit through it themselves.
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Yoga classes for men in Perungalathur
The question we are asked most often by men on the phone is whether this is a women's class. It is not.
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Yoga for weight loss in Chennai, honestly
Search for yoga for weight loss in Chennai and you are promised a number: so many kilos, in so many weeks. We will not do that. Here is what the practice changes, how long it takes, and the half of the problem yoga cannot solve for you.
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Hatha yoga in Chennai for a working week
Most people who walk into our hall in New Perungalathur are not after a workout. They have a desk job, a commute up the GST Road, a stiff lower back and five or six hours of sleep. Hatha yoga suits that life, and this is how we teach it.
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What happens in your first yoga class
The most common thing people tell us before their first class is that they are worried about being the least flexible person in the room. Here is what actually happens.