Krishna kumar

Krishna Kumar is a yoga practitioner, instructor,

facilitator, and teacher-trainer.
He has 12+ years of experience in teaching,
training, mentoring, and coaching students in
diverse fields of science and arts. Teaching is an
integral part of his persona. He combines his
enthusiasm and facilitation skills with his lifelong
passion for yoga to today teach, mentor, and
empower both yoga practitioners as well as yoga
teachers.

A yoga student and practitioner from his childhood

days, Krishna always had an appreciation for this ancient form and uses various traditional and modern
approaches of yoga including Vinyasa & Hatha styles of yoga, along with Yin and Restorative yoga,
Pranayama and Meditation techniques that not only help enhance strength, endurance, flexibility but he
also gives individual attention to correct alignment and posture; his students see improvements in their
physical ailments such as sciatica and back pain.

With his knowledge about the human anatomy, asana alignment, yoga philosophy and
Sanskrit texts, Krishna has trained over 5000 yoga practitioners & teachers of all ages across the
globe. In the 9+ years of teaching and facilitating yoga as an ERYT 500 (Experienced Registered
Yoga Teacher 500), he has served various roles including being a personal yoga instructor, group
facilitator, and a yoga studio manager. As a yoga centre manager he was completely responsible for end
to end operations, administration procedures, infrastructure and logistics, as well as yoga
facilitation at the centre.

His corporate clientele includes Hitachi, Tata Consultancy Services, D. E. Shaw, Dr. Reddys, Google,
BSNL, Bank of America, Infosys, Cavium Networks,
Kotak Mahindra, amongst many others. He has taught
yoga for over 6 months at the “Happy Streets” public
events organised by Times of India group and is an
ongoing yoga facilitator for various Decathlon events.
He also helps spread awareness of yoga through
various TV programmes and has organized and
conducted ‘108 Suryanamaskaras’ events.

Yoga Certifications
 Yoga Acharya (RYT 500) certification from
The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta
Centre, Madurai in 2013
 Yoga Shiromani (RYT 200) certification from
The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta
Centre, Trivandrum in 2011
 Power Vinyasa Yoga (RYT 200) from Anahata Yoga Zone, Hyderabad, 2014
 YTTC (Yoga Teacher’s Training), SVYASA University, Bangalore, 2010
 Teacher’s training, Kapila Maharishi Institute, Hyderabad, 2009
 Stop Diabetes" Instructor Training Programme by SVYASA University, Bangalore
Krishna facilitates yoga for children at schools and colleges as well as for individuals, institutions, and
corporate groups. He has facilitated yoga awareness sessions at a number of clinics, apartment clubs
and gated communities, as well as conducted summer camps for children in asanas, which helped
them improve their balance and concentration.

Krishna truly believes that yoga is a holistic practice that combines postures, breathing, and meditation
that helps optimize benefits in one’s life and has been constantly bringing in those principles of
Sivananda yoga in his classes.