

The Himalayan Iyengar yoga centre, founded in 1985 by Yoga Master Sharat Arora, was the first Yoga School in Dharamkot, Himachal Pradesh. Sharat and his assistants have been teaching there continuously ever since and have helped thousands of students with his excellent therapeutic yoga practice.
Sharat spent 7 dedicated years with Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar in Pune which led him to explore and develop his own yoga practice in line with Guruji’s teachings of alignment & healing. Whilst in Pune Sharat assisted his teacher in the daily yoga therapy sessions and this was incredibly influential to his development of the practice along with his committed regular Vipasana meditation. Therefore, the Yoga we practise and teach at the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre is therefore an EVOLUTION of the Traditional Iyengar Yoga.
Master Sharat Arora’s relentless exploration led him to discover the importance of the foundations in Yoga Practice. From there the Yoga Asanas grow and alignment is found. The revelation about footwork and handwork is integral and specific to Master Sharat Arora’s style of teaching. His life’s work has been about integrating the rest, or non-action, with the action of yoga asanas, or the “tha” within the “ha”.