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Photo Gallery: Life at Anantadrishti Yoga

Photographs from Anantadrishti Yoga in Lower Tapovan, Rishikesh, beside the Ganga: the shala, the daily practice, the river and the people who study here. Select a photo to see it full size.

Smiling woman in white stands in the Ganga releasing water from cupped hands, temple behind, Rishikesh
Yoga teacher leads four students in white in seated meditation on the rocky Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh
Teacher guides students seated in meditation in a Rishikesh yoga hall with forested hill views

Shala

The practice hall: tall windows onto the forested hills, brass gongs, and the teacher leading from the front.
  • Teacher gesturing as he instructs students seated cross-legged in a bright Rishikesh shala facing the hills

    The teacher explains a practice

  • Teacher demonstrates Nadi Shodhana alternate nostril breathing with his right hand at the nose in a Rishikesh shala

    Vishnu mudra, demonstrated

  • Pranayama teacher sits facing his students in a Rishikesh yoga hall with a bookshelf and hill views

    Leading the class from the front

  • Teacher stands over a seated student, guiding his posture during a class in a Rishikesh yoga hall

    A correction during practice

  • Teacher and students in white raising their arms overhead in a bright yoga shala in Rishikesh

    Arms raised overhead

  • Pranayama teacher leading three students in white in a Rishikesh yoga shala with large windows facing green hills

    Teaching a small group

  • Pranayama teacher seated cross-legged with eyes closed before a window overlooking forested hills in Rishikesh

    The teacher before the hills

  • Students in white sit with chins lowered as the teacher guides a class in a large Rishikesh yoga hall

    Chins lowered across the hall

Practice

Nadi Shodhana, chin mudra and seated meditation, close up.
  • Five students practice Nadi Shodhana alternate nostril breathing in a Rishikesh pranayama class

    Nadi Shodhana, five students

  • Close-up of a student practicing Nadi Shodhana with the right hand at the nose, eyes closed, in Rishikesh

    Nadi Shodhana, close up

  • Woman in white meditating in chin mudra in profile beside a brass gong in a Rishikesh yoga shala

    Chin mudra beside the gong

  • Two women practice Nadi Shodhana with the right hand at the nose and chin mudra in a Rishikesh yoga shala

    Nadi Shodhana, side by side

  • Two women in white meditate with chin mudra on folded orange blankets in a Rishikesh yoga shala

    Chin mudra on orange blankets

  • Woman with glasses meditating cross-legged with hands resting in her lap in a yoga shala in Rishikesh

    Hands resting in the lap

  • Pranayama students in white sit in meditation with chin mudra in a bright yoga hall in Rishikesh

    Meditation in the bright hall

  • Bearded student in white meditating cross-legged on an orange mat beside three brass gongs in a Rishikesh shala

    Stillness beside three gongs

By the Ganga

Sitting, breathing and offering water on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh.
  • Students meditate cross-legged on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh with the Trimbakeshwar temple behind

    Meditation facing the Ganga

  • Yoga teacher instructs four seated students on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh, Trimbakeshwar temple behind

    Instruction on the riverbank

  • Woman in white offers Ganga water from cupped hands toward the sun in Rishikesh, Trimbakeshwar temple behind

    Arghya, the water offering

  • Teacher sits cross-legged on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh facing the river, one hand raised in a mudra

    The teacher faces the river

  • Teacher and four students sit upright with eyes closed on the rocky Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh

    Eyes closed on the rocks

  • Four students in white practise Nadi Shodhana alternate nostril breathing together on the riverbank in Rishikesh

    Nadi Shodhana by the river

  • Close-up of a student practising Nadi Shodhana alternate nostril breathing with eyes closed in Rishikesh

    Alternate-nostril breath, eyes closed

  • Two students practise Nadi Shodhana with right hand at the nose and left hand in chin mudra in Rishikesh

    Nadi Shodhana with chin mudra

  • Four students in white rest in savasana on yoga mats on the rocky riverbank in Rishikesh

    Savasana on the riverbank

  • Man in white pours Ganga water from his raised hand as an offering, temple and hills of Rishikesh behind

    Water returned to the river

  • Man in white stands in the Ganga in Rishikesh with palms joined in prayer, head bowed, temple and hills behind

    A prayer in the Ganga

Our students

Teacher and students, in the shala and on the riverbank.
  • Students and teacher in white greet with namaste hands in the Anantadrishti Yoga shala in Rishikesh

    Namaste in the shala

  • Teacher and four students in white stand with palms joined in namaste on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh

    Namaste by the Ganga

  • Yoga teacher and a woman in a white kurta smile on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh, temple and hills behind

    Teacher and student by the river

  • Yoga teacher stands smiling between two companions in white on the Ganga riverbank in Rishikesh

    The teacher with two students

Earlier classes

A few photographs from earlier courses, indoors and by the river.
  • Seven students practise pranayama on mats in an earlier Anantadrishti Yoga class, a mandala mural on the wall

    Pranayama before the mandala mural

  • Students practise Nadi Shodhana in front of a Buddha mandala mural in an earlier Anantadrishti Yoga class

    Three students in Nadi Shodhana

  • Students wrapped in orange blankets practise Nadi Shodhana in an earlier Anantadrishti Yoga class in Rishikesh

    Nadi Shodhana on orange blankets

  • Two students meditate side by side indoors, one wrapped in a poncho, in an earlier Anantadrishti Yoga class

    Two students in meditation

  • Students practise pranayama on the sandy bank of the Ganga in Rishikesh, a temple on the far bank

    An earlier group by the Ganga

Ceremonies

Havan, puja, offerings at the Ganga ghat and the evening Ganga aarti.
  • People sit around a small havan fire on the floor of a yoga hall, one placing an offering into the flames, hills through the windows

    Havan · offering into the fire

  • A man in an orange kurta and a woman stand facing each other on the Ganga ghat steps in Rishikesh, a plate of flowers and fruit beside them

    Ganga · offering at the ghat

  • A woman pours water into the Ganga from the ghat steps in Rishikesh, a plate of flower offerings behind her

    Ganga · water offering

  • Four people sit on the floor around a puja altar decorated with marigolds and oil lamps in a yellow-walled room

    Puja · marigolds and oil lamps

  • A small brass figure of Durga on a lion, on a brass plate with rose petals, fruit and marigolds behind

    Puja · Durga murti

  • Priests raise flaming lamps at an evening Ganga aarti while a crowd watches and films

    Evening Ganga aarti

More photographs and short videos on Instagram:@anantadrishtiyoga

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