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Yoga Prabodhana is dedicated to the integrated study and practice of Yoga and Advaita Vedānta, held in a spirit of honest inquiry and lived application. We grow step by step with the people who walk this path with us, bringing traditional teachings into real conversations, relationships, and daily life. At the heart of this work is a simple invitation: to turn towards the truth of your own nature, gently and with good company.
Yoga Prabodhana is guided by teachers trained in the classical tradition of Swami Dayananda Saraswati; we draw from the Upaniṣads, Bhagavad Gītā, and Patanjali's Yoga Sūtras to offer teachings that illuminate the nature of consciousness and Self-knowledge.
Our approach honours the philosophical depth and purity of these ancient traditions while making them accessible for contemporary practitioners.
We welcome people of all backgrounds who wish to engage with these profound teachings through personal inquiry and contemplative practice.
We begin simply – with movement, breath, and the body. Yoga at Yoga Prabodhana is not about performance or flexibility; it is about learning to meet your own experience with steadiness and care.
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Meditation deepens this. Sitting together, with clear guidance and no pretension, we explore what it means to be quietly present – even in the middle of an ordinary, complicated life.
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Beneath both practices runs a simple vision from Advaita Vedānta: that who you really are is not broken or lacking. We explore this slowly, connecting ancient wisdom with the real questions people bring.
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Prabodh Chaithanya
He did not begin with scripture. Before Vedānta claimed him, Prabodh Chaithanya was a student of Botany - the science of living forms, of growth and taxonomy, of the visible world carefully observed. Something in that training stayed: a habit of precision, a preference for what can actually be demonstrated over what is merely asserted.
The turn came in the mid-1980s. He entered Sandeepany, the Chinmaya Mission's study centre in Kerala, where he spent two years in the classical formation - Vedānta, Sanskrit, the disciplined encounter with texts that do not yield to impatience. His teacher there was Swami Bodhananda Saraswati; behind him, the vast figure of Swami Chinmayananda himself, whose lineage shaped a generation of Vedānta teachers across the world.
From Kerala he moved deeper. Between 1990 and 1994 he studied at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Coimbatore under Swami Dayananda Saraswati – one of the most exacting and luminous transmitters of Advaita of the twentieth century – working through the Upaniṣads, Bhagavad Gītā, and Brahma Sūtra in their full classical depth. He also traveled to Varanasi, to study Tarka Shastra – the ancient Indian science of logic and epistemological inquiry – under Swami Sampurnanda Saraswati. It is a formation that few carry: the capacity to sit with both the heart of non-dual teaching and its rigorous philosophical spine.
That Prabodh Chaithanya wears the name Swami without having sought formal sannyasa ordination is itself a quiet statement. The title came through the recognition of those around him, not through institutional ceremony. He appears to have found this entirely unremarkable.
In 2008 he took on coordination of the Swami Dayananda Gurukulam Student Home for Boys in Haripad – a practical, unglamorous form of service that has continued alongside his teaching life ever since. In 2009 he completed a Master’s degree in English Literature, a reminder that the contemplative and the literary have never been, for him, separate orientations. That same year he was teaching at Neo Yoga Center; since 2013, he has been guest lecturer in Vedānta at AyurYogaEcoAshram in Mysore.
His book Zero Gravity Living distils what thirty-odd years of study and service have made available: a practical, unadorned encounter with non-dual awareness – not as an achievement to be reached, but as what has always already been the case.
Prabodh Chaithanya is the Vedānta, meditation, and chanting teacher for Yoga Prabodhana. He brings to that role a formation built not in one school but across several – classical and logical, devotional and literary, scholarly and stubbornly grounded in ordinary human life.
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DrJi
Born in southwestern France, DrJi has a background in philosophy, linguistics, and semiology. Drawn to Hindu philosophy through martial arts and Yoga at a young age, he has woven together diverse Eastern influences into a personal approach that is inclusive, embodied, and practical.
He trained in the Iyengar tradition for twelve years before moving into a Yoga–Āyurveda integrative practice informed by the three doṣas – vāta, pitta, kapha – bringing greater depth and understanding to what Yoga can be in a human life. His practice draws from Yoga, Āyurveda, Qi Gong, hypnosis, Tibetan Yoga, deep meditation, and pranic awakening, with a long‑standing, lived study of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras at its core.
Decades of martial arts practice give his teaching a quiet rigor, discipline, and focus – always offered with a smile. There is a depth and breadth of wisdom in his classes that makes them stand apart from much contemporary Yoga; to attend is to receive a living transmission of the lineage of Yoga in its fullness - students often comment they feel the wisdom of the ṛṣis moving through his guidance.
As Yoga Prabodhana’s yoga teacher, DrJi co-facilitates retreats, workshops, and speaking engagements in India, Australia, and Europe. He also offers individual spiritual integration sessions online, supporting students in preparing for retreats, integrating insights into daily life, and maintaining ongoing practice. DrJi is co-founder and author of the Yoga Prabodhana newsletters, published bi-monthly on Substack. He shares Tantric Poetry transmissions with each new and full moon through Temple Du Silence.