The breath-linked flow of posture and stillness that became the world's most-practiced moving meditation, rooted on the banks of the Ganges and in the halls of the Mysore Palace.
Earn your RYT-200 where the Ganges meets the Himalaya, shoulder to shoulder with a global cohort in the city the practice itself calls its capital.
Living sceneMeccaUnbroken lineageHeritageGold credentialThe densest living vinyasa community outside India, where rice-terrace shalas run cohort after cohort and you will absolutely find your people.
Living sceneMeccaInside the Mysore Palace city where Krishnamacharya architected vinyasa itself, the wellspring every modern flow on Earth descends from.
BirthplaceUnbroken lineageHeritageThe Pacific cradle of American yoga, where Yogananda planted the practice in the West and a deep teacher-training scene still trains on the cliffs above the sea.
Living sceneHeritageI'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.
If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.
This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.