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Team
We are a group of committed and caring yoga practitioners and instructors, focused on holistic wellbeing. Our specialties cover various aspects of classical yoga, meditation, mindfulness, breathing/ pranayama, ayurveda, vedanta and yoga therapy. We have decades of combined experience and have conducted classes and healing sessions globally in the USA, UK, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Please see below for more information about our Instructors.
Ruchi Singhal Bhatia
Founder & Instructor - Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Pranayama breathing,Energy Clearing,Yoga Nidra, Sound Healing , Dynamic mindfulness, Chair Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Chanting, Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda concepts.
Certifications - C-IAYT (Yoga Therapy), RYT 200 (Yoga Teacher Training), Yoga Nidra, Sound Healing, Chair Yoga, Restorative Yoga.
Co-Author of book - 'Yoga as Practiced by the Ancient Sages of India' - by Jagdish Chandra Singhal & Ruchi Singhal Bhatia.
Co- Author of - 'Gratitude & Art Journal' for mindfulness - by Ruchi Singhal Bhatia & Ashima Kumar.
Ruchi has been deeply connected with yoga for over 20 years growing up in India. She has conducted sessions in Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Sound Healing,Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, Stress management, Yoga Sutras and the Gita in California, Singapore, Boston, London, Malaysia, Thailand & India. She also teaches the Yoga philosophy, meditation and pranayama breathing modules in Yoga Teacher Training and Certification courses and is currently working on a book on Classical Yoga.
She got her teaching certification in Yoga, Yoga Therapy (C-IAYT- Certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists) and Yoga Nidra from The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers & and her Sound Healing certification from The International Academy of Sound Healing in India. She is currently enroled in the Ayurvedic Life Style Consultant course with the American Institute of Vedic studies, under Dr. David Frawley.
Her academic qualifications include a Masters in Business and a Bachelors in Teaching. She has brought this learning along with her Extensive Yoga training, to build and run her dream venture - OmLotus Wellbeing.
She is especially interested in the therapeutic use of Holistic Yoga practices for Stress Management and Mental/emotional health conditions. Trained in Indian classical music, she also enjoys Chanting and Bhakti Yoga practices.
Priya Anand
Instructor - Gentle Yoga, All Levels Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, OmLotus community connect, Vegetarian Cooking.
Certifications - RYT 500
A lifelong resident of Middle Tennessee, Priya found herself at an ashram in India for the first time in 2014. She has since completed both the Sivananda Teacher Training and the Advanced Teacher Training courses, finding in yoga, invaluable tools for navigating life and relationships in the face of loss and change.
Priya has been leading gentle yoga classes at Sun and Moon Yoga Center in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee since 2015 and deepened her study of karma, serving as an intermittent staff member at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA from 2017 to 2019.
She is ever grateful for each of the dedicated teachers who have helped her along the way and finds herself routinely inspired by the innate wisdom of her students and the natural world. An avid home cook, Priya also holds a diploma in culinary skills from The Art Institute of Tennessee.
Gary Chu
Instructor- Classical Hatha Yoga All levels, Gentle Yoga, Pain management, Posture & corrective exercise.
Certifications - RYT 500, NASM-CPT, ACE-GFI, TRX advanced trainer.
During his office job and stint as a personal trainer, Gary went through lots of physical and stress related challenges..The physical aspect of hatha yoga helped him in healing from a lot of his past injuries that he got from intense workouts and marathon training. He realized how yoga can help in releasing stress and pain at all the levels.
To learn and understand the Holistic yogic science, he took a Yoga teachers training course at Sivananda International Yoga Vedanta Centre. He later served at the Sivananda San Francisco centre for about a year and learned the practical, in depth therapeutic application of Yoga.
Currently, he is working as a yoga teacher/fitness trainer for pain management in an integrative medical clinic under the supervision of medical doctors. His expertise is posture correction & alignment, coordination of movement (macro & micro-movements), stretching for sedentary lifestyle, chair yoga and pain management. Besides being a RYT 500 certified yoga teacher , he is also a NASM certified personal trainer, ACE Fitness Group Fitness Instructor and TRX Advanced Group Traine
Maren Penu
Instructor- Classical Hatha Yoga All Levels, Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga.
Certifications - RYT 200, Chair Yoga.
Classical Hatha Yoga, Chair Yoga and Gentle Yoga Teacher trainings have inspired Maren to share the Yogic lifestyle and wisdom with her students for seven years now. Her journey is inspired by vast wisdom of yoga teachings and feedback from her students.
Maren is dedicated to helping students build a solid foundation for lifelong wellbeing through yoga practice.
She is currently enrolled in a 2 year Yoga Therapy training program.
Shikha Garg
Instructor- Ayurveda and Vegetarian Cooking
Growing up in India with a passion for cooking with fragrant aromas and spices, Shikha has traveled widely to cultivate her culinary skills across cultural experiences. Access to fresh and local produce from farms combined with learnings of Ayurvedic concepts and spices has enriched her with knowledge of the impact of food to the body and soul.
She has specialties with cuisines of North India, Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh. She is a teacher of history by profession and is passionate about everything related to food and cooking. She strongly believes that the food that we eat has a strong influence on who we are.
Surabhi Bhatia
Instructor - Yoga Therapy
Certifications - C-IAYT, RYT 500.
Born in the land of Himalayas, yoga and spirituality is an innate part of Surabhi's life. To fulfill the quest for knowledge and experience, she went on to pursue 500 hours yoga teachers training and C-IAYT yoga therapy program from The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. The deep learning was enriching ,which included hatha yoga, kriya yoga, pranic healing, vedanta/yoga philosophy and therapeutic application of yoga for disease management.
She is currently working for an integrative wellness clinic under the supervision of medical doctors and has successfully applied yoga as a therapeutic intervention. Her professional experience includes working with diverse chronic illness cases like cancer, stroke, bi-polar, parkinson, diabetes and stress. She is passionate about helping her students through therapeutic yoga, vedanta studies, consciousness coaching and selfless service.