About Deepti
Deepti is a South Asian international Yoga Teacher with 15+ years of teaching experience. Deepti comes from a strong traditional Yogic lineage of T Krishnamacharya. Her teaching style
is influenced classical Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Krama yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa primary series & Yin Yoga.
With 1000+ hours of traditional teachers training in Yoga, Deepti first trained in Hatha & Power Yoga in 2010 with her RYT 500 certification in Hatha Yoga from Yoga Alliance International and pursued a master’s degree in yoga & science of living in the Jain Yogic tradition. That was just the beginning & she never looked back!
Lineage & Tradition
Deepti’s philosophy is deeply rooted in living life according to Yoga & Ayurveda principles. She practices & teaches authentic Yoga as learnt from her teachers from the ancient lineages, adhering to deeper Yogic concepts including principles of Hatha yoga, regular deep cleansing with shat karmas & Yogic kriyas, Pranayama practices to regulate the prana (energy) & Meditation to align mind, body & her goals in life.
She aligns living an Ayurveda way of life with her Yoga practice, living by the rhythms of the day, moon cycles & ritucharya, the rhythms of the seasons. She has experienced deep inner transformation living this way of life. Her skin has been smooth & flawless for years without any treatments, she has maintained her weight & muscle mass with Yogic movements, her energy stays consistent & has felt a sense of deep calmness making her look & feel younger than her age.
T Krishnamacharya Lineage
Deepti was spiritually inclined to go deeper into Yoga philosophy as taught in the linage-based Yoga traditions. She pursued 200 hr TTC in classical Hatha Yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in South India, living in a ‘Gurukula’ system for her teacher’s training. During her stay in the ashram, she got a brief glimpse of Yogic lifestyle & experienced how Yoga & Ayurveda lifestyle have a huge power to transform a person.
Living the ashram life she experienced huge shifts in her body weight, digestive health, energy, body toning, feeling fitter, improved skin health, toned muscular structure, flexibility, mobility, strength, balanced moods & calmer state of mind. Deepti adopted this way of life ever since, and continued her studies in the ancient traditions of Yoga, while aligning her yoga classes to the tradition.
Deepti’s successive trainings in Yoga have been deeply influenced by the living masters from traditional Yoga lineages. Lately, she advanced
her Yoga training in a unique traditional yoga style ‘Vinyasa Krama’ in the Krishnamacharya lineage. Deepti is trained in Vinyasa Krama tradition directly by the living master Srivatsa Ramaswami, the longest standing student of Shri T Krishnamacharya.
Vinyasa Krama is a spiritual yoga practice that focuses on sequential step-by-step method to progress into an asana, opening up the body flow in various preparatory vinyasa flows that lead to final classical asanas systematically with ease, step-by-step progression into an asana aligned with ujjayi breath, meditative focus & pranayama. She deeply incorporates the teachings of her teacher in her teachings & incorporates sequences in step-by-step asana progression with breathwork, meditation and chanting as her primary practice. Deepti is also the student of Arun Deva, a known figure in
Ayurveda in the West. In last 15 years she has been privileged to study & practice yoga with internationally acclaimed teachers of Yoga & Ayurveda. Deepti is also a certified Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant & a Macrobiotic Diet Consultant offering programs around traditional diet & lifestyle principles.
Teaching Philosophy
More than a decade down the line, Deepti’s yoga teachings have a flavor of her deeply knowledgeable spiritual master’s from South India & abroad. Her teaching style incorporates the principles of Vinyasa Krama and approaches the asana practice in authentic way adhering to deeper Yogic
concepts of mobility, spinal flexibility, flow state, range of motion, detoxification, vitality, nervous system reset & muscular strength.
Influenced from the traditional lineage, her class flows from the lineage are designed on functional parameters of the body at the root level.
Her teaching style supports a strong & calm persona to shield the mind against emergence of psychosomatic tendencies for health & wellbeing at the root level.
In her practice, she highly focuses on activating the cleansing pathways of the body daily including activating lymphatic flow, stimulating & strengthening liver for a deeper cleanse, stimulating kidneys & bowels for elimination, stimulating circulation to detox via the skin channel through sweat.
She teaches controlling the state of ‘agni’, the digestive fire with the practice of ‘tapas’, the inner fire or self-discipline used to generate and control the agni, which facilitates purification and
transformation on both physical and spiritual levels.
Her classes are focused on boosting metabolism with circulation enhancing practices, relaxing the nervous system, activating parasympathetic or healing (rest & digest) response of the body, strengthening the skeletal & muscular structure with strength bearing practices using body’s own weight, learning body balance to stay balanced in body & mind.
She highly emphasizes on restorative practices to build inner capacity for stress release and a calm nervous system, the system that makes us experience what we feel. Her relaxation classes target stretching the connective tissue & fascia for better range of motion, graceful aging, staying youthful.
Deepti highly focusses on living life according to Yoga & Ayurveda principles and propagating dinacharya (daily) rituals, ritucharya (seasonal) shifts & living by the rhythms of nature.
She is deeply inclined towards guiding women in their Yoga practice for feminine health. Her passion project in yoga is her series of hormonal yoga practices, a powerful natural program designed to naturally heal feminine
health conditions like PCOD, PMS, infertility, peri-menopausal & menopausal concerns and the related symptoms. Her hormonal yoga flows are based on balancing energy & hormones and graceful aging techniques inspired by the ancient Yoga practices.
Deepti is passionate about the ancient art of preserving youth & beauty guiding women to live their best life & preserving youth with natural beauty yogic practices. Her Yogic wellness inspired Ayurvedic skincare brand Svarasya, is a one-of-its kind initiative in the beauty space that aligns the idea of ancient beauty with selfcare practices to stay youthful & prolong a state of wellness & longevity in body & mind.
Deepti’s yoga classes are a blend Yogic cleansing technique (shat karmas), traditional asanas approached with the understanding of anatomy, pranayama practice, meditation & chanting with Ayurveda lifestyle principles and Macrobiotic dietary principles, all aligned under Yograsya wellness
initiatives.
Credentials
Deepti is based in Canada and is spreading authentic Indian Yoga in the West and on international platforms, being an eminent speaker at yoga festivals in North America & teaching traditional yoga as a guest teacher at various yoga studios in & around Toronto.
She had been the only South Asian Yoga Teacher at Canada’s biggest yoga festival ‘Yoga Conference Show’ in Toronto in 2023 & 2024.
She also has been a teacher at City of OM Yoga Festival, Ottawa in 2024.
She has been a speaker at Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America (AAPNA).
Deepti teaches Hatha, Power & Yin Yoga at Movati Athletic, a chain of Canada’s premium fitness studios.
PODCAST
Deepti’s other initiatives in the space of wellness include her podcast ‘Youvana the Ageless’ where she gets into enlightening conversations with wellness experts. This space has emerged from her innate desire to transmit knowledge about timeless wisdom from Eastern wellnes modalities discussing topics on Ayurveda, Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, Macrobiotics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qi gong, wellness, ancient wisdom, living ageless, beauty, raw food philosophy, naturopathy, Alkaline diet philosophy and more and decode the principles of living well & beautiful to your best potential adopting ancient medicine as a way of life. Deepti is also the author of the book ‘Body & Mind Transformation the Ancient Way’.
Listen the podcast on Spotify & Apple iTunes.
Press & Media
Deepti has been featured on various platforms in India & Canada. Some of the media platforms where she has been featured include interview coverage by internationally renowned author, wellness expert & celebrity chef Jasmine Hemsley, Times of India, RVN Tv, Wedding Vows, CNBC18, Macrobiotics Today.
Entrepreneurial Pursuits
Deepti is an ex-corporate professional turned Yogini entrepreneur building a Yogic wellness sanctuary, ‘YOGRASYA Ayurveda & Yoga Shala’ & ‘SVARASYA’, an Ayurvedic skincare brand.
Rooted in ancient Vedic wisdom, both her ventures YOGRASYA & SVARASYA embody the union of Yoga and Ayurveda as path to inner harmony, wellness, holistic beauty and inner radiance.
Through traditional yoga practices, breathwork, and Ayurvedic skincare & self-care rituals, food as medicine philosophy, Svarasya & Yograsya are focused towards creating a sanctuary for beauty & wellness inside-out.
YOGRAYA Ayurveda & Yoga Shala propagates traditional Yoga & Ayurveda teachings for inner balance & outer wellness.
SVARASYA, her Ayurvedic skincare brand offers traditional Ayurvedic
skincare formulations and emphasizes on beauty & selfcare rituals from Yogic
& Ayurveda selfcare at the root of its philosophy.
Trainings
100 Hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program in the tradition of Vinyasa Krama Yoga with Srivatsa Ramaswamy, longest standing
student of T Krishnamacharya
60 Hr Vinyasa Krama Training with Arun Deva, a known figure in Ayurveda
200 Hr Yoga Shiromani TTC in Sivananda Yoga Tradition, India
2 Years Master's Degree (MA) in Yoga & Science of Living
E-RYT 500 Hr Master Hatha Yoga Teacher Training certification from Yoga Alliance International, India & The Yoagguru Institute, India
50 Hr Yin Yoga Teachers Training with Arhanta Yoga
60 Hr Functional Yin Yoga Training with Paul Grilley
300 Hr Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant Certification with David Frawley, Institute of Vedic Studies
1 year Macrobiotic Consultant Certification with David Briscoe
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