Founder & Lead Teacher, PRAANAH
Parvathy
Parvathy is the founder of PRAANAH. Yoga has been her way of life since 2015, shaping the way she moves, breathes, eats and lives. In 2024, she completed the 900-hour Advanced Teachers’ Training Course at The Yoga Institute, Mumbai. A lifelong student of Ayurveda and conscious living, she is passionate about making timeless wisdom practical, accessible and relevant for modern life.
A letter
I spent most of my twenties teaching in rooms where people came for an hour, felt better for an afternoon, and returned the following week no different. I was good at my job and it wasn't working.
What changed things for me was not a new technique. It was noticing that the students who improved were never the ones who practised hardest — they were the ones whose sleep, food and breathing had quietly reorganised around the practice. Everything else was decoration.
PRAANAH is my attempt to teach that directly. Not a studio, not a clinic. A school where the fundamentals are taught in the right order, in small groups, by people who will tell you the truth about your practice.
— Parvathy
Journey
How PRAANAH came about
2006
Kerala
Begins classical yoga study under a family teacher, alongside a degree in psychology.
2010
Ayurveda training
Formal training in Ayurvedic principles and clinical observation in Thrissur.
2012
Teaching
Starts teaching full time across studios in Bengaluru and Chennai.
2016
Breath and physiology
Studies functional breathing and respiratory physiology; begins integrating it into all teaching.
2019
Circadian work
Adds light, sleep and circadian rhythm to the curriculum after two years of working with shift workers and founders.
2022
The Five Pillars
Formalises the framework: Breath, Body, Food, Mind, Elements.
2024
PRAANAH
Opens PRAANAH in Bengaluru as a school with a curriculum, small cohorts, and an explicit end point: your independence.
What I am trying to build
A place where Indian knowledge is taught with the same rigour and plainness that any other serious discipline receives — no mystique, no imported vocabulary, no products.
And a small, honest teaching practice: fourteen people in a room, taught properly, who go home able to look after themselves.
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Study with Parvathy
Small cohorts, taught in person. The weekend workshop is the place to begin.