About Us

We are a collective of individuals who have come together to offer a unique possibility of healing, enquiry and solitude through yoga (vedic chanting, asana and pranayama), energy healing and reiki, and being in nature. Our programs are a distillation of our personal experiences and meaning-making, as each of us walk our respective path towards spirituality, healing and well-being. What holds us together is our conviction in yoga (philosophy and practice), vedic chanting and our human-ness.

Our programs (online and in person) are

- An invitation to experience different possibilities of living.

 - An opportunity to step back from our habitual patterns, gather and collect our broken parts and put them back together with much love and compassion.

- An act of inner revolution in our current times, an island of radical questioning to recognise the internal roots of our sorrow and suffering.

Vishoka Team

Anita Balasubramanian is a yoga teacher, therapist, Reiki master and life coach. She completed her IAYT certified yoga therapy training from YogaVahini and has studied with senior teachers in the tradition of Sri.T.Krishnamacarya and Shri T.K.V. Desikachar. She also has PhD in curriculum design & pedagogy, and a graduate degree in engineering. Given her varied educational background, she integrates philosophical and scientific perspectives and healing modalities to create processes for understanding oneself, bring change within/out, and experience life fully.

Kavitha Elango is a yoga practitioner and teacher, trained in Sivananda, Iyengar and the Krishnamacharya tradition. She has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She currently lives in Bangalore. Having learnt Carnatic music formally, she finds great joy in chanting by connecting to the deeper essence of the chant within. She uses chants in her teaching to help her students connect to their inner faith.

Gayatri Iyer is a self-taught artist, a yoga teacher in the Sri Krishnamacarya tradition trained at Yoga Vahini, Chennai. Her journey to start discovering herself and leading a meaningful life started with many art forms and tools like visual art, chanting, singing, yoga and reiki. She firmly believes that the path of yoga and other healing practices enables her to discover beauty and rhythm in her own life and helps her to enable others to blossom in their journey of life.

Priyamshakti is a Yoga therapist in the Krishnamacarya tradition of and adapts Reiki, chanting, life coaching, and Ayurvedic practices in her healing spaces. Chanting for her is a way of connecting to herself and her roots. She is committed to building collectives that have the praxis of Yoga at their heart. She works with alternative and meaningful educational processes and loves teaching children, writing poetry and being in Nature.

Vidya Saktivel has explored many traditions of Yoga seeking to find the true purpose of life along with the well-being of the body and mind. She is trained in the Sivananda and Krishnamacharya traditions. Her sadhana has opened up a path of action, self reflection and surrender to a higher divinity that keeps her anchored and balanced in life. She also finds much joy in being with nature, her pets, listening to music and reading.

Radhika Rammohan is a yoga therapist, having studied with Saraswathi Vasudevan of Yogavahini, Chennai. She learned Vedic chanting with Savithri Ravikrishnan and finds her chanting practice very anchoring. The healing power of sound draws her to chant and share it with others. Interested in sustainable living, she is one of the founding volunteers of reStore, a non-profit organic food store in Chennai. She enjoys being in nature, music and reading.

Akila Ramakrishnan is a yoga practitioner and teacher in the T.Krishnamacarya tradition, graduated from Yogavahini, Chennai. Chanting for her, is a way of self purification, contemplation on the wisdom of Vedas and a practice to quieten the mind . She teaches classical music and yoga to children and enjoys working with them. She loves travelling, exploring places and experiencing the flavour of the culture. She takes interest in the study of Yoga Sutra as a means to self discovery.