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Over the years, many people have reached out to me saying:“I’ve tried yoga before… but my health issue is still there.”A...
10/03/2026

Over the years, many people have reached out to me saying:

“I’ve tried yoga before… but my health issue is still there.”

And the truth is — when you’re dealing with things like back pain, PCOS, thyroid concerns, diabetes, high BP or chronic stress, the body often needs more than a generic yoga class.

It needs a more personal and therapeutic approach.

This is why I work with a small number of people through the Pranava Personalized Yoga Therapy & Nutrition Program, where we work one-on-one to understand the body and support healing through:

• Therapeutic yoga practices
• Breath regulation (Pranayama)
• Lifestyle refinement through Ayurveda
• Nutrition guidance where required

Each plan is designed around the individual body, lifestyle, and health context, and evolves as the body responds.

From time to time, a few spaces open up in my schedule, and I’m sharing this here for those who have been meaning to reach out.

If you feel your body may benefit from more personalized guidance, you’re welcome to send me a message to book an Initial Holistic Health Assessment.

We can take it from there.
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Pranav
Pranava Svasthya – Holistic Health Clinic

FOUNDATIONS OF ALIGNMENTReframing Safety in AsanaMany yoga practitioners stretch deeper with time — yet begin experienci...
09/03/2026

FOUNDATIONS OF ALIGNMENT
Reframing Safety in Asana

Many yoga practitioners stretch deeper with time — yet begin experiencing discomfort in the hips, knees, shoulders, or lower back.

Often the issue isn’t flexibility.

It’s a misunderstanding of how the body handles load in yoga poses.

In modern yoga practice, alignment is often reduced to how a posture looks. But true alignment is about how the body distributes effort, protects joints, and sustains movement safely over time.

In this workshop we will explore alignment beyond aesthetics and understand how to build a safe, intelligent, and sustainable asana practice.

In this workshop you will learn:
• Understanding load & joint integrity in asana
• Why stability must come before mobility
• How flexibility without stability can lead to strain
• Recognising unsafe movement patterns in practice

We will explore common postures like Tadasana, Trikonasana, Virabhadrasana II and forward bends to understand how the body actually distributes effort.

This session is designed for:
• Serious yoga practitioners
• Yoga teachers
• Anyone seeking deeper clarity in their practice

📅 15 March (Sunday)
⏰ 9 AM – 12 PM
📍 The Wellness Studio @ Prana, Varthur

Limited seats.

Register via the link in bio.

Long hours at a desk slowly change how the body feels.Tight hips.A stiff upper back.Neck tension that never really goes ...
07/03/2026

Long hours at a desk slowly change how the body feels.

Tight hips.
A stiff upper back.
Neck tension that never really goes away.
Shallow breathing from constant stress.

Over time, the spine carries more load than it should, and the nervous system remains in a constant state of alert.

Stress, Spine & Strength is a therapeutic yoga workshop designed to help reset these patterns safely.

In this 3-hour guided session, we will explore:
• Gentle spinal decompression
• Strength without strain
• Nervous system down-regulation
• Breath practices for stress relief
• Simple tools to support your body during work

This workshop is the first in our Therapeutic Yoga Workshop Series, where each session will explore a specific aspect of movement, pain, and recovery through yoga.

Ideal for IT professionals, desk workers, and anyone experiencing recurring back or neck discomfort.

No prior yoga experience required.

📅 14 March (Saturday)
⏰ 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Wellness Studio Prana, Varthur

Limited seats to ensure personalised guidance.

🔗 Registration link in bio






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For many practitioners, yoga becomes a routine of repeating poses.But very rarely do we pause to ask:How safe is the way...
06/03/2026

For many practitioners, yoga becomes a routine of repeating poses.

But very rarely do we pause to ask:

How safe is the way we are practicing?

Over time, small misalignments can quietly accumulate as:

• shoulder discomfort
• lower back strain
• tight hips and knees
• neck compression

The Asana Alignment Clinic Series is designed to slow things down and explore the intelligence of asana.

Not just how poses look.
But how the body supports, distributes, and manages load within them.

These clinics will be conducted as small-group deep dive workshops, focusing on alignment principles that make practice sustainable for years to come.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be launching these Alignment Clinics across different regions of Bangalore.

If you are someone who values safe, intelligent, long-term practice, this series might be for you.

Workshop details coming soon.






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Yoga is often approached as an exercise.But in many situations, what the body needs is therapy, not intensity.Modern lif...
05/03/2026

Yoga is often approached as an exercise.

But in many situations, what the body needs is therapy, not intensity.

Modern lifestyles are creating patterns of:

• spinal compression
• shoulder and neck tension
• chronic fatigue
• nervous system overload

The Therapeutic Yoga Series explores how yoga can be practiced in a way that supports recovery, stability, and long-term well-being.

These workshops will be conducted as small-group sessions designed to bring clarity and relief through intelligent practice.

Over the coming weeks, I will be announcing the first set of Therapeutic Yoga Workshops across Bangalore.

Stay tuned.






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Many people come to yoga through āsana.Some stay there.At Pranava Yogashala, we treat āsana and prāṇāyāma as they were a...
05/02/2026

Many people come to yoga through āsana.
Some stay there.

At Pranava Yogashala, we treat āsana and prāṇāyāma as they were always meant to be —
a preparation.

Preparation of the body.
Preparation of attention.
Preparation of the nervous system.

In our Online Sharira Sādhana, we begin by working carefully with joints, breath, alignment, and effort — not to perfect poses, but to make the body steady and receptive. From there, the practice naturally opens into prāṇāyāma, restorative work, and the early stages of pratyāhāra.

This is why our sessions are taught in small groups, and why the practice unfolds in two stages:

Pravesha — to orient and prepare the body
Prayatna — to refine, sustain, and deepen practice

When the body is prepared, the inner limbs are no longer distant ideas.
They become accessible through practice.

If you are looking for an online space where yoga is taught as sādhanā —
and not just movement —
we’d be glad to practice with you.

DM to know more.






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Pratyusha — Second Cycle AnnouncementRitu Sandhi Sankalpa SādhanaOver the last Ritu Sandhi, a small group of committed p...
20/01/2026

Pratyusha — Second Cycle Announcement
Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa Sādhana

Over the last Ritu Sandhi, a small group of committed practitioners completed the first cycle of Pratyusha — a 14-day inner Sādhana rooted in Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna, and Sankalpa, aligned consciously with the seasonal transition.

Pratyusha is not a program built around āsana.

It is a disciplined inward journey, designed for those who feel ready to move beyond movement and technique, and explore Yoga in its subtler, traditional dimensions.

The second cycle of Pratyusha will be offered during the next Ritu Sandhi, traditionally considered an auspicious window for deeper Yogic work.

What defines Pratyusha:
• Daily early-morning practice (Brahma Muhurta)
• A clear inner progression from prāṇa → senses → attention → stillness
• Practices drawn from classical Yogic frameworks, not modern improvisation
• Sankalpa approached as direction of being, not goal or affirmation
• Silence, continuity, and sincerity as non-negotiables

This Sādhana is for:
• Serious practitioners and yoga teachers
• Those who feel a plateau at the level of āsana or basic prāṇāyāma
• Those drawn to inner limbs of Yoga but seeking clarity and structure

This is not for:
• Casual or drop-in practice
• Those seeking quick results or constant stimulation
• Anyone unwilling to sit with silence and discipline

Dm for Details regarding registration.

Those who feel genuinely called are welcome to reach out for clarity before enrolling.

Pratyusha is not something to rush into.
If it resonates, it will return to you at the right time.

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Pranav

Prāṇāyāma is not just breathing.It is an inner science — a way of understanding and refining life force.This immersion i...
13/01/2026

Prāṇāyāma is not just breathing.
It is an inner science — a way of understanding and refining life force.

This immersion is an invitation to slow down, look deeper, and move beyond mechanical practice into clarity, awareness, and lived experience.

It is not only for yoga teachers.
There is no pressure to perform, teach, or certify.
This journey is for anyone who feels called to understand how breath works — physiologically, energetically, and inwardly.

Rooted in Siddha & Yogic wisdom, and supported by modern anatomy and neuroscience, this immersion brings together practice, science, and sādhana — without dilution.

If Prāṇāyāma has ever made you pause,
this may be the right time to listen.

🕉️ Prāṇāyāma Sādhana & Science
📅 Starts: 2nd February 2026
🕡 Time: 6:30 AM IST | Live on Zoom

No labels. No pressure.
Just learning and sādhana.

📩 DM to know more






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🌅 Pratyusha begins tomorrow — Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa SādhanāNot a class.Not a course.Not a challenge.It is a quiet, early ...
30/11/2025

🌅 Pratyusha begins tomorrow — Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa Sādhanā

Not a class.
Not a course.
Not a challenge.

It is a quiet, early morning inward turning—
held in the most sensitive time of nature and the Self — Ritu Sandhi,
where one season dissolves, and another quietly begins.

Here, we don’t do much.
We simply hold — breath, attention, and one sincere Sankalpa.

No asana. No recordings. No makeup sessions.
Only presence, discipline, stillness — and inner alignment.

Sādhanā never calls everyone.
It calls only those who are ready.

If something in you feels called — you’re welcome to join.
We begin at dawn tomorrow. 🕔


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Manifestation isn’t about forcing reality — it’s about tuning yourself to the frequency of what you seek.The Upanishads ...
28/11/2025

Manifestation isn’t about forcing reality — it’s about tuning yourself to the frequency of what you seek.
The Upanishads say that everything in existence is nāda — vibration.

When your intention, identity, action and surrender align into one vibration…
Reality has no choice but to rearrange around you.

You don’t chase — you attract.
You don’t struggle — you resonate.
You don’t manifest from lack — you manifest from inner alignment.

When your inner field becomes clear, steady and elevated,
the right people, opportunities and experiences begin to find you — effortlessly.

Because in the end, manifestation is not a trick.
It is a state of being.
A state the rishis mastered long before modern language existed for it.

And this alignment is not born through desire, thinking or wishing.
It happens when you create space — breathe, withdraw, anchor and become still enough for the inner field to realign.

That is why ancient tradition chose the Ritu Sandhi —
the sacred 14-day window between seasons —
as the time to sit, reset and plant Sankalpa.

Not through mental repetition,
but through energetic alignment.

🪷 Pratyusha – Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa Sādhanā
1st–14th December · 5–6 AM IST
A dawn Sādhanā to tune the inner frequency
before stepping into the next season.

Tune the vibration → Let life rearrange.

Swipe to understand what Ritu Sandhi truly means 🌿Most of us live within seasons…but Ayurveda teaches that the most sens...
26/11/2025

Swipe to understand what Ritu Sandhi truly means 🌿

Most of us live within seasons…
but Ayurveda teaches that the most sensitive, transformative time is actually the in–between —
the 14 days where one season fades and the next quietly begins.
That space is called Ritu Sandhi — the seasonal junction.

It is nature’s invitation to pause, slow down, listen within, release and realign — so we step into the next season with clarity, immunity, and intention rather than imbalance.

✨ In Yoga, this inner transition is guided through
Prāṇāyāma · Pratyāhāra · Dhāraṇā · Dhyāna
…allowing Sankalpa (intention) to take root silently as we transition.

This is the very foundation of Pratyusha — Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa Sādhanā,
a 14-day dawn Sādhanā happening from 1st to 14th December · 5–6 AM
for serious practitioners wanting to work inside-out — not through information, but through discipline, silence, and Sankalpa-held awareness.

Full details in the next post 🌅
If you feel called to join, stay close.

🍂 When one season fades and another quietly begins — nature does not rush.It releases, it remembers, it prepares.This si...
25/11/2025

🍂 When one season fades and another quietly begins — nature does not rush.
It releases, it remembers, it prepares.
This silent crossing is called Ritu Sandhi — the 14-day junction between two seasons.

In this Sharad → Hemanta transition, we
✨ Release the heat and agitation of Pitta (autumn)
✨ Prepare the body-mind for the stability of Kapha & the subtlety of Vata (early winter)
✨ Cultivate warmth, immunity, grounding, emotional steadiness and inner silence

And Yoga gives us the tools to do it consciously —
not through effort, but through refinement of breath, sensory withdrawal, single-pointed focus and silent absorption.

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Introducing Pratyusha

Ritu Sandhi Sankalpa Sādhanā – The Seasonal Dawn of Intention
🗓 1st–14th December
⏰ 5:00–6:00 AM IST (Live, Online)

A disciplined 14-day dawn practice rooted in:
🫁 Prāṇāyāma | 🌙 Pratyāhāra | 🎯 Dhāraṇā | 🕊 Dhyāna

Here, we set a Sankalpa for the upcoming season,
hold one chosen Dharana (inner anchor)
and allow it to take root not through forceful doing —
but through presence, stability and silence.

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This is not a class.
Not a course.
It is a Sādhanā — a quiet inner commitment.

Only for those who feel called to sit, to stay, to listen and to hold intention with sincerity.

Registrations open soon.
If this speaks to you — stay close.

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