ABOUT
Yoga Mandir is a little bamboo yoga shala nestled in a quiet corner of Palolem, right next to a peaceful wetland. Yoga classes here are always attended by chirping birds, playful langurs, and sometimes a lizard or two.
We aspire to provide a healthy, non-judgemental and peaceful space for students to practice yoga.
Feel free to contact us for any inquiries :)
the teacher
The yoga classes at Yoga Mandir are led by our founder, Akshey, an E-RYT 500 hour senior yoga teacher with over 14 years experience.
Akshey started his personal yogic journey many years ago in the Himalayan region of Uttarkashi, very close to the glaciers of the Ganges and home to many humble yoga masters. Wanting to devote his life to yoga and share the discipline with others, Akshey went on to formally study yoga at the Bihar School of Yoga followed by scriptural studies from the monastic faculty of the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh.
Akshey's practice and teaching is highly inspired by the Iyengar method. For this reason, you will often see him encouraging yoga prop usage to deepen and enhance the student's experience of the yoga asanas. He has travelled and taught extensively in various teacher training and workshop formats. Be it Hatha or Ashtanga, Akshey always emphasizes on correct form, alignment and the *Mona Lisa smile*.
TYPE OF YOGA
The type of yoga offered at Yoga Mandir is traditional Hatha Yoga, with a heavy emphasis on precision and alignment, resultantly involving lots of adjustments, and much longer holding periods (while respecting the individual's body limitations, of course!).
It is not for those who are looking for a "flow" or a fast-paced “workout”.
At Yoga Mandir, we follow a very detail oriented, method-centric approach and for this reason practitioners jokingly refer to it as "OCD yoga”. It is method-centric in that the final asana is not the goal, rather, the whole process of getting into the asana is just as important because of the exercise component that it entails. This method requires patience, stamina, concentration and discipline.
