YAI Founder-President

Swami Vidyanand
YAI- Founder President Swami Vidyanand is a renowned yoga master from India. He is the founder of SriMa International School of Transformational Yoga® and the Founder and President of Yoga Alliance International® (YAI) and Meditation Alliance International® (MAI).
Hailing from a long line of renowned Bhakti yogis, Swami Vidyanand was born into the deeply spiritual environment of Datiya (Madhya…
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YAI Directors

K M CHANDRASHEKARAN
As Organizing Director of YAI, K M Chandrashekaran brings to his work a life-long interest in Yoga and allied matters. He is a writer and occasional speaker on Yoga. Check out his book YOGATMA on the link below.
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Sergey Repin
Sergey Repin Sergey Repin is a Grandmaster of Yoga and Meditation, and pioneer in spreading the message of Yoga in Russia and allied countries. We are very happy indeed to state that he is our Director for Russia and other countries in the region.
VANDANA WADERA
VANDANA WADERA YOGASANGHAM Director Yoga Profile VANDANA WADERAStarted my yoga journey in 1996 with her teacher Swami Vidyanand learning traditional Hatha Yoga until 2001.She started teaching yoga in 2005.In 2006 was reunited with Swami Vidyanand,now founder of Yoga Alliance International and SriMa School of TY.For the next 7 years worked under the guidance of Swami ji with certified…
BALA
BALA Bala, the Founder and the Chairman of Hatha Vidya Gurukulam, hails from India. His journey on the Path of Yoga began in some very renowned Yoga Institutes in India, where he attained the basic training in Yoga. He took to extensive traveling, through the expanse of Northern India, exploring his way to seek the truth.…
LINDA LOO
LINDA LOO Linda is a Living Foods Specialist, Yoga, and Aqua Yoga Teacher. Since 2010, she has been leading Hatha Transformational Yoga and meditation classes. She has her 500-hour Yoga Teachers Training Certification (YAI accredited) and acts as the Director of Singapore YAI (Yoga Alliance International established in India).  Linda has led 200-hour and 300…
TARYN
Taryn Elise Herselman (Ma Akash) Taryn Elise Herselman (Ma Akash) Director of Shakti Yoga Therapy Centre in Gauteng and Yoga Alliance International South Africa / Africa. She is a qualified yoga therapist and internationally trained yoga teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience.
CAMILLE
Camille Gicquel Camille Gicquel Chairperson, Yoga Alliance International, France Camille was born in the West of France and got introduced to Yoga thanks to her Mom, an experienced practitioner, who convinced her to attend a class of Hatha yoga thinking that it may help channelize her energy and anxious nature, and it was a revelation!…
UTKARSH
Utkarsh Sanjanwala Utkarsh SanjanwalaAdministrative DirectorHome Country: New Zealand/India Utkarsh  is a Grand Master of Hatha  Yoga, Administrative Director Worldwide of  SriMa International School of  Transformational Yoga and Director of  it’s New Zealand Branch. He is also one of the directors of Meditation Alliance International. Having  studied and taught in the Bihar  Tradition of Swami Satyananda, he went…
Arjun Goswami
Arjun Goswami Sri. Arjun Goswami, Executive Director – YAI, (seen in the photo alongside) is our Director for Yoga Alliance India, He will now be contacting all schools in our network to see how we can best help promote Yoga around the world. Arjun has been practicing yoga & meditation since his childhood and become…
Renu Dutt Sharma
Renu Dutt Sharma Renu developed interest in yoga at a very young age of 14 and has been practising yoga & meditation since then. It started as a hobby but soon under the able guidance of Sri Swami Vidyanand ji (Founder & President of Yoga Alliance International & Srima International School of Transformational Yoga}) Renu…
SWAMI VASUDEVANANDA
Swami Vasudevananda Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati Mahacharya Nestor CesariniRegional Director, Latin AmericaHome Country: Argentina Born Buenos Aires – Argentina, at an early age he felt a strong inclination to seek spiritual answers, he traveled in his search for several paths as well as training professionally in the HR area.  He began his yogic journey and training…
BORA ERCAN
BORA ERCAN Bora Ercan was born in İzmir, Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics (Middle East Technical University), and he got his master’s degree in Philosophy at METU with the thesis titled Wittgenstein and Zen: A comparison,. He started practising meditation by the end of 1980s as a part of Ananda Marga Tradition.…
Francisco Palacios
About Francisco Palacios Profesor certificado de Yoga, fundador de la Escuela Yoga WT Chile, director de Yoga Alliance International (YAI) en Chile, representante de  OIYAY,  Miembro de Yoga Alliance USA y de IAYT. Desde hace más de 12 años, me he dedicado a impartir clases, talleres y formaciones de profesores de Yoga; en institutos, centros de salud…
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;2013.11~Present>  Managing & Lecturing on Yoga in Lara Yoga Academy  Providing Yoga classes for disabled…