Pinaki Yoga is a yoga teacher based in Gurunam, India.
1. What style of yoga do you teach? Where are you located?
I teach a very traditional and spiritual practice of Hatha Yoga, that basically trains body and the mind, to sustain a higher level of energy.
I teach Power Yoga that is a continuous and quick repetition of Asanas, that makes my clients completely overactive & excited and build up their strength & flexibility.
I teach Kundalini yoga once a week, that includes chakras meditation with specific yoga mudras.
I also teach Pregnancy Yoga in which I guide pregnant woman about the postures and diet, which help her to maintain a healthy pregnancy.
I am based in Gurugram, India
2. What is your intention behind teaching?
Today, people depend on their physical senses to collect information from the outside world. They can only see, what eyes want them to see, they can only think, what mind wants them to think and because of this they are losing their control on their thoughts, emotions, cravings, fantasies and if we see from the real frame, everybody is a slave of his own mind.
My aim is to relieve people from their fluctuations of thoughts, build up a physical & mental strength and provide them a different perspective about life, with compassion and love.
You see, God and Evil are all inside us, it just depends on us, which one we choose.
3.Who are your mentors?
For my physical training and my specialization in Pregnancy Yoga, I did a certification of 200 hours from the World Yoga Alliance, Rishikesh, India. I am also Pursuing, Post Graduation Diploma In Yoga and Naturopathy.
Except for this, I acquire most of my knowledge from yoga literature and Indian Philosophy. Behind my every action there is part of Indian Philosophy, Bhagwad Gita. I have read more than 50 books In Yoga, Tantra, Naturopathy, and Ayurveda from great writers like Pema Chodron, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Sadhguru
4.What have they taught you?
During both of my studies, I have learned the fundamentals and foundations of yoga and got trained in Hatha Yoga postures.
Buddha said, ‘We cannot be liberated until we are free from our wants and preferences.’
All these years of my practice and study, taught me about the power of calm mind and consciousness, which can only be achieved with the sense of inner awareness and deep wisdom.
5. Please mention a book about yoga that has had a positive impact on you?
Bhagwad Gita - Indian Philosophy
Inner Engineering - Sadhguru
5 Chapters of freedom - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Power of subconscious mind - Dr. Joseph Murphy
6. What lesson are you currently learning in your yoga practice?
Working on my inversions and Breathing Extensions and Retentions.
7. How often do you practice?
I practice Asanas on a daily basis for 2 hours and an hour spent daily for meditation and pranayama.
8. How do you implement the 7 limbs of yoga into your life other than Asana?
I always try to keep myself pure into my thoughts and actions. Always believe in karma theory and self learning mechanism. Surround myself with the natural environment and feel every part of nature into me, with every breath, during my meditation.
Whatever we think and feel, is responsible for our circumstances and surroundings. What we do outside, is exactly the reflection of how we feel inside. We should be clean and truthful into our intentions and thoughts, based on this, people and opportunities come into our life.
9. Why is being present so important to you?
I believe in the theory of karma. Our doings and intentions always come back to us as the fruits of our actions and thoughts.
The past is something we cannot change, the future is the only thing we can make better by our present karmas & actions.
10. How can we keep up with you on social media? What is your IG handle and FB name?
IG account & Facebook - PinakiYoga