A yoga study centre in Rishikesh, teaching Iyengar Yoga and Medical Yoga Therapy.
Two disciplines
Used as a treatment
Assessment first, then a practice built around one person’s condition and limits. Over a thousand people treated.
Read more →Alignment and props
B.K.S. Iyengar’s method: exact alignment, held postures, and props that make a pose correct rather than approximate.
Read more →Courses: 1 & 3-day workshops · 7-day foundations · 11-day Iyengar intermediate · 2-month certificates
Inside the studio
A rope wall, benches and a full range of props, in daily use.
Upcoming programs
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Come and study with us
Pick a program, choose a date, and tell us a little about yourself. We read every enquiry and reply on WhatsApp.
Medical Yoga Therapy
Medical Yoga Therapy begins with an assessment of the person: how they move, where the limits are, and what a stated condition does in practice. Specific postures, breathing and props are then used to work with that condition, and the practice is changed as the person improves. It works alongside medical care.
Conditions commonly treated
Practice is chosen for the issue in front of it, with props for support and traction.
Best used alongside medical advice, not as a replacement for it.
What you study
Assessment
Read a body before working with it: range of movement, posture, breathing, and what a condition actually restricts.
Contraindications
Know what not to do for a given condition, and how to tell when a practice is doing harm rather than good.
Adaptation
Change a posture to fit the person: reduce the range, add support, or substitute a shape that does the same work.
Props for support and traction
Use belts, blocks, bolsters and the rope wall to carry weight, open a joint, or make a position sustainable.
Sequencing for a condition
Build practice around a specific issue, back, neck or knee, instead of following a fixed class.
Review
Reassess and adjust. What changed, what did not, and what to try next.
Therapy programs
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From the therapy room
Hands-on work, props and adaptation in daily use.
Private Medical Yoga Therapy
One to one, built entirely around your assessment.
A private session begins with assessment, then works on your specific condition with the props and adaptations that suit it. Held daily between 1 and 4 PM by appointment.
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Iyengar Yoga
Iyengar Yoga is the method developed by B.K.S. Iyengar. It works through a fixed vocabulary of postures, practised with exact alignment, held for time, and arranged in a deliberate order. Props, ropes, belts, blocks, bolsters and chairs, let a posture be done correctly before it is done unaided. Progress is measured by precision, not by how many poses you move through.
How the practice works
Alignment
Where each part of the body belongs in a posture, and how a change at the foot or hip changes everything above it.
Time in the pose
Postures are held. Staying is where the work happens, not the entry and the exit.
Sequence
Poses are taught in order, standing before seated, seated before inversions, so each one prepares the next.
Props
Ropes, blocks and belts make a correct position reachable, then come away as the body allows.
Iyengar programs
Certificate courses. Tap a program for its schedule and dates.
From the studio
Alignment, held poses and rope-wall work.
B.K.S. Iyengar
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) taught yoga for more than seventy years and set out his approach to alignment and props in Light on Yoga. Our Iyengar classes follow that method.
Programs
Tap any program to see its daily schedule and start dates. Limited participation throughout.
Medical Yoga Therapy
Iyengar Yoga
What students say
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Read our Google reviewsA yoga practice and study centre in Rishikesh
Rishi Yogpeeth is a practice and study centre in Upper Tapovan, Rishikesh. It teaches two disciplines: Iyengar Yoga, and Medical Yoga Therapy, where yoga is used as a treatment adapted to the individual.
Teaching is hands-on and done in a fully equipped studio with a rope wall and a full range of props. Programs run from a single day to two months.
Classes are taught in English. Accommodation and food are not part of the programs, so the longer courses suit practitioners already staying in Rishikesh. Places on each program are limited.
Rishi Deva
Sanskrit Scholar · Yoga Teacher · Medical Yoga Therapy Practitioner
Rishi Deva studied at Patanjali, at Yoga Peace, and at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune. Alongside formal study he trained directly under several teachers through seva, learning by assisting their work.
He is a Sanskrit scholar and teaches across Iyengar Yoga, Medical Yoga Therapy, Sanskrit, philosophy and Ayurveda. The teaching stays close to what can be observed: how a body is built, how it moves, and what changes when alignment, breath or support changes.
AYUSH Recognised Institution
Rishi Yogpeeth is an AYUSH-recognised yoga institution in Upper Tapovan, Rishikesh.
Whose work we draw on
Maharshi Patanjali
Swami Vivekananda
B.K.S. Iyengar
Bhagwan Rajneesh (Osho)
S. N. Goenka
Daily practice
Questions
How many people are on a program?+
Places are limited so each person gets attention and hands-on correction. Numbers are kept small.
Do the courses come with a certificate?+
The 7-day Iyengar course is a Foundation certificate and the 11-day is an Intermediate certificate. The 7-day therapy course and the two month courses are certificate courses. The 1-day and 3-day workshops are not certified.
Do you provide accommodation or food?+
No. Accommodation and food are not part of the programs. The two month courses suit practitioners already staying in Rishikesh.
What language are classes in?+
English.
How do I pay?+
After you enquire, we reply on WhatsApp to talk through the program, dates and next steps. Nothing is paid at the enquiry stage.
Upper Tapovan, Rishikesh
3rd Floor, IMA Sadhana Hotel
Balaknath Road, Upper Tapovan
Rishikesh
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