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.
Learn to teach, and earn your RYT-200, where the Ganges comes down out of the Himalaya.
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 credentialLearn in a rice-terrace shala, inside the densest living vinyasa community outside India.
The densest living vinyasa community outside India, where rice-terrace shalas run cohort after cohort and you will absolutely find your people.
Living sceneMeccaLearn the flow in the palace city where Krishnamacharya built vinyasa in the first place.
Inside the Mysore Palace city where Krishnamacharya architected vinyasa itself, the wellspring every modern flow on Earth descends from.
BirthplaceUnbroken lineageHeritageLearn to teach on the cliffs above the Pacific, where Yogananda first planted yoga in the West.
The 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 sceneHeritageWhat you can realistically reach: A 200-hour teacher training (3–4 weeks, residential) genuinely qualifies you to register as a teacher and lead a basic class — it is a foundation, not mastery. A one-week retreat deepens your own practice but will not certify you to teach.
This Atlas exists because there is a real difference between a school that teaches you and a good-looking website — and too much of the internet is the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what we'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.