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About Vijaya Hariharan

Samatvam Yoga Uchyate’, has been her favourite Yoga definition from B.Gita. YOGA has made her life more balanced; Balance at the personal , social and spiritual levels. Her initial exposure to yoga was in 1991 at The Yoga Institute Mumbai, at a nasal allergy camp. Having had nasal allergy since childhood, she was looking for an alternative cure after an ENT specialist told her she had to live with this problem. Having qualified as a cost accountant and about to join the corporate world, she felt she did not want to live with this problem. The yoga camp was an eye opener and she realised that the ‘mind had a powerful role to play in how the body behaved’. Her first lesson in yoga was a concept from Patanjali’s yoga sutra ‘Anitya bhava’.  ‘Change is life’ are we prepared for it. Most of us are comfortable with the routine and any change makes us feel uncomfortable. But life is full of changes , if we accept it and go with the flow , we come out as a more mature and harmonious being, else we are always complaining and irritating. The simple breathing techniques and the kriya practices helped her overcome her nasal allergy . She had over 12 years experience in the corporate world in the area of Internal audit and control and MIS and budgeting. Later after moving to Bangalore, she did her YIC, PGDYT from SVYASA and has been teaching since 2003 . Her classes are holistic in approach with emphasis on mindfulness, breath awareness and follows the principles of Ashtanga yoga. She was one of the senior yoga therapists at Ayush ayurvedic center, Atmayaan wellnes academy, VYASA centers. She specialises in prenatal yoga and Therapeutic yoga session. She has been part of YB since 2014 and a part of Teachers Training Team and has conducted workshops on health issues in several centers of Yogabharati. Her bhakti yoga sessions as well as the chanting sessions are something extraordinary. She specialises in teaching the streams of yoga, Kriyas, Pranayama and various philosophies of Yoga and thus is aptly selected to be the Academic Head of Yogabharati She is the Academic head and the Senior Yoga therapist of Yogabharati. She is a certified RYT200 yoga teacher approved by Yoga Alliance. With emphasis on holistic Yoga, her aim is to guide participants into a deeper awareness of YOGA as a way of life which will also help promote a peaceful and harmonious society