About the Academy

Ragamayuri School of Dance and Yoga trains the students in the classical Indian dance form, Bharatanatyam along with physical activities like Yoga

About the Guru

The teacher of Ragamayuri takes absolute care to ensure that the training period in this institute is an experience of learning dance and yoga with joy

Yoga

Sindhuja is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School in USA .

Sindhuja has the following skills in Yoga;

  • Healing
  • Wellness
  • Health
  • Teaching
  • Wellness Coaching
  • Meditation

Styles of Yoga we teach

Kundalini

The practice of Kundalini yoga features constantly moving, invigorating poses. The fluidity of the practice is intended to release the kundalini (serpent) energy in your body. Weren’t aware you had any? Well, just think of it as an energy supply, coiled like a sleeping snake at the base of the spine, waiting to be tapped; this practice aims to do just that — awaken and pulse the energy upward through the body.

Prenatal

Yoga postures carefully adapted for expectant mothers. Prenatal yoga is tailored to help women in all stages of pregnancy, even for those getting back in shape post-birth. If you keep your muscles strong through your term, they will have the strength and energy to return back to normal.

Restorative

Less work, more relaxation. You will spend as many as 20 minutes each in just four or five simple poses (often they are modifications of standard asanas) using strategically placed props like blankets, bolsters, and soothing lavender eye pillows to help you sink into deep relaxation. Mind goes to mush and you will feel brand new.. It’s something like group nap time for grownups. It's better not to fall asleep though.

Viniyoga

A highly individualized practice in which yogis learn to adapt poses and goals to their own needs and abilities. Vini actually means differentiation, adaptation, and appropriate application. Instead of focusing on stretching to get strong and flexible, viniyoga uses the principles of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF). PNF simply means warming up and contracting a muscle before stretching it. This decreases your chance of injury.

Vinyasa / Power

An active and athletic style of yoga adapted from the traditional ashtanga system in the late 1980s to appeal to aerobic-loving Westerners. After having studied with Pattabhi Jois, Beryl Bender Birch and Bryan Kest simultaneously pioneered this westernized ashtanga on the East and West coasts, respectively. Power yoga doesn’t stick to the same sequence of poses each time like ashtanga does, so the style varies depending on the teacher. Classes called “vinyasa” or “flow” in your gym or studio can be vastly different but in general stem from this movement and from ashtanga as well.

Yin

A quiet, meditative yoga practice, also called taoist yoga. Yin focuses on lengthening connective tissues and is meant to complement yang —your muscle-forming Anusara, Ashtanga, Iyengar, or what have you. Yin poses are passive, meaning you’re supposed to relax muscles and let gravity do the work. And they are long — you’ll practice patience here too.

Ashtanga

Six established and strenuous pose sequences — primary series, second series, third series, and so on — practiced sequentially as progress is made. Ashtangis move rapidly, flowing from one pose to the next with each inhale and exhale. Each series of poses linked by the breath this way is called a vinyasa.

Bikram

Bikram features yoga poses in a sauna-like room. Heat is cranked up to nearly 105 degrees and 40 percent humidity in official Bikram classes. If it’s called “Bikram” (for inventor Bikram Choudhury), it will be a series of 26 basic yoga postures, each performed twice.

Hatha

By definition, hatha is a physical yoga practice, which is pretty much all the yoga you’ll find in this hemisphere. One of the six original branches of yoga, “hatha” encompasses nearly all types of modern yoga. In other words, hatha is the ice cream if styles like Ashtanga and Bikram are vanilla and chocolate chip. Today, classes described as “hatha” on studio schedules are typically a basic and classical approach to yogic breathing exercises and postures.