The Teacher

My name is Krishen Govinden. I spent the first 16 years in Mauritius, the next 4 years in Belgium and the subsequent 16 years in India. The formative years were inevitable, the European bit hazy and the Indian chronicle, significant.

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Following a ten year stretch as a translator in various multinational companies such as Macmillan, Capgemini and Accenture, I developed severe lower back issues. A good friend recommended Inner Engineering (IE) which is the flagship program of Isha Foundation head-quartered in Coimbatore, India. This was in 2009. The back issues didn’t get fixed immediately but the program swayed me away from a skewed idea of yoga. 

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Thereupon, an intriguing ride towards the formidable science of yoga begun. In 2013, I attended an advanced program called Shoonya Intensive followed by another consequential program called Yoga Marga (extremely intense, focused, dynamic and distinctly therapeutic in nature) at Isha Foundation where I was first introduced to Classical Hatha Yoga. An intense desire to delve into this original form of yoga then arose, leading me to the decisive 21-week Hatha Yoga Teacher's Training Program under the guidance of Sadhguru (founder of Isha Foundation and Isha Hatha Yoga School) in 2018. That was a significant shift which not only intensified my practice but sprouted the urge to share it.