Yoga Bharati is a non-profit, 501 c(3) organization with a vision of enhancing Health, Happiness, Knowledge, & Peace in life through a holistic approach to yoga. We are a yoga education institution offering Yoga Teacher’s Training and Yoga Therapy course.

Our Vision
May we nourish all with health and happiness through holistic Yoga!

Our Actions

We conduct yoga classes, workshops, retreats, and programs to create awareness about yoga, its philosophy, and its relevance to humanity. We aim to build a team of motivated volunteers to achieve our mission and vision. We engage learned Yoga Gurus and Masters in providing world-class yoga education, discourses, camps, and workshops.

Our Motto 

Donating food is considered a great charity. However, offering knowledge is supreme charity because offering food gives short-term help, but giving knowledge helps them for life.

Yoga Bharati serves the community by offering that knowledge with which one can attain all other knowledge. When one learns concentration, focus, and tranquility, such a person can quickly learn anything and become competent. As it is said, Yoga is the art of working with ease (yogah karmasu kaushalam). Then alone, competence can be achieved.

Our Philosophy 

At Yoga Bharati, we follow the principles of Ashtanga Yoga by Sage Patanjali, a brilliant thinker and author who lived around 250 BCE and Swami Vivekananda, a man of great magnetism who worked both in India and America during the late part of the 19th century.

Patanjali, the father of yoga, suggested Ashtanga Yoga, an eight-limbed approach that gives a comprehensive and systematic approach to developing the mind to achieve its full potential. This approach includes Yama (guidelines for ethical relationships), Niyama (guidelines for ethical personal living), Asana (postures), Pranayama (controlled and deliberate breathing patterns), Prathyahara (withdrawal of mind from distractions), Dhyana (focus of the mind upon goal), dharana (the expansion of focused mind into everyday life) and samadhi (an establishment of balance and harmony in living). Through practicing these principles, one may experience yoga–a connection with our true self.

We have the following Chapters. See below list for the executive teams of each chapter:

1. SF Bay Area Chapter and Team
2. Dallas Chapter and Team
3. Austin Chapter and Team
4. Los Angeles Simi Valley Chapter and Team
5. Detroit Team