Check out the list of top yoga instructors in India who are engaging and inspiring yoga instructors in India. He is dedicating his life to yoga and has a lot of experience in teaching. He is spreading his ancient yogic, holistic and philosophical knowledge all over the world. All are Yoga Alliance and International Registered Yoga Teachers.

1. Who Are The Top Yoga Instructors In India?
Yoga is considered as an intrinsic part of India's health science. It is a 5000-
year-old holistic approach to mental as well as physical well-being. This ancient
mind-body intervention practice was introduced by the yoga instructors in
India who were ancient sages and has now become very much popular even in
western countries and America.
Yoga has gained wide acceptance throughout the world. Everybody gladly
recognizes and considers India as the country where yoga originated. They
wholeheartedly believe that the journey of yoga started from Lord Siva who
passed it on to ‘Adiyogi’ which was then handed over to ‘Adiguru’ from where
it spread all over the world from India.
It is an unforgettable fact that during the past centuries eminent yoga
instructors in India have dedicated their life for the cause of yoga trying to
unearth the meaning of yoga in its original form in which was transmitted long
back.
Years of perseverance, discipline, strong determination, and practice from the
part of yoga instructors in India were involved in the evolution of a strong
persona suitable for training and practicing and attracting people across
various countries.
Selecting the best and most inspiring yoga instructors in India will naturally be
a difficult task as one will have to choose the best teachers based on their
learning, yogic journey, and experience in asanas, yogic meditation, etc. One
also will have to consider diverse sections like therapy and training which are
matters of prime importance in the present scenario.

2. Tirumali Krishnacharya
Thirumalai Krishnacharya is one of the renowned yoga instructors in India. He
is also known as the father of modern yoga. He is the force behind the revival
of hatha yoga and is also the architect of Vinyasa. He has immense knowledge
in both yoga and Ayurveda. He mixes both Ayurveda and yoga proportionately
and uses them for promoting yoga. He has also performed wonderful feats like
stopping his breath. His book named Yoga ‘Makaranda’ was written in 1934
and ‘Yoga Rahasya’ was written in 1941. He has also written several poetic
compositions and essays. Famous and influential yoga instructors in India like
Indira Devi 1899-2002) and B.K.S. Iyengar are his students. He has acquired
degrees in logic, philosophy, philology, divinity and music. He was offered the
most revered position of Acharya according to Srivaishnava Sampradaya. But
he has declined it as he preferred to stay in his native place with his family.
Ram Jain
He is a living yoga maestro and the founding director of Arhanta yoga ashrams
in India and the Netherlands. From the year 2009, Arhanta ashrams under his
patronage have trained more than 4000 yoga teachers.
He was born in Delhi, India in a traditional Jain family. He started his studies of
Vedic and yogic philosophy at the age of 8 when he was doing his primary
education as part of the primary education. He has deep knowledge in classical
hatha yoga. He is also well-versed in Indian scriptures of the ancient days. He
was fortunate to work with various physiology and anatomy experts and has
developed special skills in modifying, adjusting, and teaching of yoga.
Presently he is engaged in teaching different yoga styles like hatha yoga, yin
yoga, Vinyasa yoga, and meditation as well as yoga Nidra. For a good part of a
year, he teaches in India and for the remaining part, he teaches in the
Netherlands where his family consisting of his wife and two children are living.

3. Jain is a well disciplined and creative yoga expert. His teaching style is unique
and his asana correction and modification techniques are superb.
He believes in personal supervision and individual attention. He believes that
the duty of a teacher is to support his students and let them achieve their
goals. His teaching style has evolved from his personal talent and experience
and he is very adept in explaining complex Vedic ideas in a simple and easy-to-
understand manner. This rare quality has made him one of the best yoga
instructors in India.
Swami Sivananda
Swami Sivananda was a prominent vedantic and yogic scholar and a Hindu
spiritual teacher. He was born in Tirunelveli in the year 1887. Though he was a
physician by profession he took up monasticism later. He founded the Divine
LIfe Society and Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy. More than 200 books were
written by him on his favourite subject yoga.
His disciple Vishnudevananda has propagated a new style of yoga introduced
by his teacher and known as Sivananda yoga This style has now spread to
many countries through the Vedanta centers established in his name in those
countries, though these centers are not part of Sivananda Ashrams run by his
Divine Life Society. Swami Sivananda, one of the greatest yoga instructors in
India attained his ‘Mahasamadhi’ also known as the departure of a refined
soul, in the year 1963.
B K S Iyengar
B.K.S. Iyengar is a student of Krishnmacharya. He is the person who was behind
the popularisation of yoga in western countries. He has to fight a lot of
diseases that were always burdening his life. It made him feeble and weak. He

4. tried to find his solace in yoga. His conscientious dedication to yoga gave him
the ability to introduce what is now known as Iyengar yoga. Even at the age of
95 when he bid farewell to the world, he was able to do shirshasana for 30
minutes.
In the year 1952, he had an opportunity to teach yoga to the famous violinist
Yehudi Menuhin. This made Menuhin write a forward to Iyengar’s treatise
named ‘Light on Yoga’ which contained around 600 photographs of Iyengar in
different yoga poses and asanas. This gave a great break to yoga in Europe and
America.
Iyengar, one of the greatest yoga instructors in India, started the Ramamani
Iyengar yoga institute in memory of his late wife. This was run with the
assistance of his son and daughter. By the beginning of the 21st century, this
yoga center has grown tremendously with around 200 sub-yoga centers,
thousands of yoga teachers, and millions of students around the globe.
K Pattabhi Jois
A Sanskrit scholar and one of the greatest yoga instructors in India, Sri.K
Pattabhi Jois was instrumental in developing and popularizing the vinyasa style
which is known as Ashtanga Yoga. He started the Ashtanga Yoga Research
Centre in Mysore, India. Pattabhi Jois along with B.K.S Iyengar were the great
yoga instructors in India and the pioneers of establishing and propagating yoga
as an exercise and wellness practice in the 20th century.
From 1976 to 1978 he was an Honorary Professor at a Government College of
Indian Medicine. He was also fortunate in saving the then Maharaja of Mysore
from an incurable and chronic disease. The Maharaja was very happy and
became his patron and allowed him to start a Yogasala in JagMohan Palace,
Mysore. In the year 1948, he started Ashtanga Yoga Research Center at their
home town Lakshmipuram.

5. He went to South America in 1974 to deliver a lecture at the international
yoga conference. In 1975, he inaugurated Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. For the next
20 years, he regularly visited the US to teach yoga to thousands of American
people. Iyengar, one of the greatest yoga instructors in India wanted to bring
back ‘Parampara’ which means the passing of knowledge from a teacher to his
student. There was one student named Having who stayed with him for many
years as part of his ‘Parampara’ and secured his lineage.