Taught live from Bengaluru
Live online yoga classes, taught from India
The same teacher, the same class and the same 40 years of teaching that fill a hall in north Bengaluru, taught live over video to whoever is on the call. Two batches a day, cameras on, corrections given out loud by name. It is not a library of videos, it is not an app, and there is nothing here you can binge.
Most people who search for online yoga classes from India are trying to work out one thing: whether a teacher on a screen can actually see them, or whether they are paying a subscription to press play. This page answers that as directly as it can, including the parts that are not flattering: which time slots are useless in your country, what breaks when your connection drops, and what a camera genuinely cannot do that a hand on your back can.
What time the batches land where you are
Indian Standard Time is five and a half hours ahead of UTC, which makes some of these slots excellent and some of them absurd. Both are in the table. If a slot is at an hour you cannot realistically keep, it says so rather than leaving you to discover it in week three.
| What is being compared | 6:30 AM IST | 7:00 PM IST | Which one is realistic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf: UAE (GST, UTC+4) | 5:00 AM | 5:30 PM | Both work. Most students in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi take the evening batch, which lands right after work. |
| United Kingdom (GMT, UTC+0) | 1:00 AM | 1:30 PM | Only the evening batch, which is your lunchtime. The morning batch at 1:00 AM is not a class anyone can keep. |
| Europe (CET, UTC+1) | 2:00 AM | 2:30 PM | Only the evening batch. It falls in the middle of a working afternoon, so it suits people who set their own hours. |
| US East (EST, UTC-5) | 8:00 PM the previous evening | 8:30 AM | Both, and this is the easiest region to fit. The morning batch is your evening the night before. |
| US West (PST, UTC-8) | 5:00 PM the previous evening | 5:30 AM | The morning batch, at 5:00 PM the previous evening. A 5:30 AM start is possible and almost nobody sustains it. |
| Singapore (SGT, UTC+8) | 9:00 AM | 9:30 PM | Both. 9:00 AM suits anyone working from home; 9:30 PM is late but people do keep it. |
| Australia East (AEST, UTC+10) | 11:00 AM | 11:30 PM | The morning batch only. 11:30 PM is an unusable hour and we would rather say so than sell you a slot you will drop. |
About daylight saving
India does not observe daylight saving and never has, so the Indian time of every batch is fixed all year. The United States, the United Kingdom and Europe do observe it, which means that for roughly half the year both batches appear one hour later on your clock than the table shows, and Australia shifts in the opposite season. The Gulf and Singapore do not shift at all. You are told before each changeover; you do not have to keep track of it yourself.
How you actually join
Classes run on Google Meet or Zoom. Which of the two has not been settled, and rather than print a confident answer that changes next month, this page says so: you will be told which one before your first class, and it will not change under you afterwards. Both work in a browser, both work on a phone, and neither needs an account you do not already have.
The link comes on WhatsApp before class, to the same number you used to book. There is no login page on this site, no portal and no password to lose. If you have joined a work call this decade, you already know how to join this.
If your connection drops mid-class, rejoin with the same link. The class does not stop and nobody comments; you come back in wherever it has reached. If your line is unsteady rather than gone, turn your own video off, keep the audio, and follow by voice until it settles. If the teacher drops instead, everyone waits, he rejoins, and the class still runs its full hour.
Whether the class is recorded is not fully settled either. The intention is that a student who misses a class can be sent a recording of it, and that is what the plan description says. What has not been decided is how long recordings are kept and whether they go to the whole batch or only to the person who asked. Until that is written down, assume the live class is the class and treat anything else as a bonus.
Setting up the camera so you can be corrected
This is the part that decides whether a live class is worth more to you than a recorded one, and it is the part almost every online student gets wrong for the first month. Five minutes spent once, and you never think about it again.
Side-on, not facing you
Turn the camera so it sees your profile rather than your front. A front-on view flattens the two things a teacher needs to judge: whether your spine is long or rounded, and whether your hips are actually square. From the side both are obvious in a glance.
About two metres away
Far enough that the whole mat is in the frame, head to feet, with a little room above and below. If your head disappears when you raise your arms, move the camera back. This is the single most common setup mistake and it costs you every correction in a standing pose.
Roughly hip height
Prop the phone or laptop on a stool, a stack of books or a low shelf so the lens is at about the height of your hip. A camera on the floor foreshortens everything and makes a straight back look rounded; a camera on a table looks down at you and does the reverse.
Light in front of you, not behind
A window behind you turns you into a silhouette and the teacher can see an outline and nothing else. Face the window, or put a lamp on the same side as the camera. It takes thirty seconds and it is the difference between being taught and being watched.
Whole mat in frame, every pose
Check it once at the start by standing at the top of the mat and then lying flat on it. If both fit, you are set for the class. Nothing is more disruptive than a teacher asking someone to shuffle their laptop in the middle of a held pose.
Why side-on matters for forward bends
In paschimottanasana or a standing forward bend, almost everyone rounds the upper back and calls it a deeper stretch. From the front that looks like progress. From the side the teacher can see the hinge is happening at your waist instead of your hip joint, which is the correction that keeps the pose safe for your lower back. That is why you will be asked to turn side-on before the forward bends and told to turn back afterwards.
A phone propped on a stool against a wall does this better than a laptop on a table, because you can put it where you need it. If you only have a laptop, put it on the floor on a cushion or on a low shelf, angled up slightly, two metres to the side of your mat. Once it is right, mark the spot with a piece of tape and stop thinking about it.
Where the students on the call are sitting
The batches are mixed rather than split by country, and that turns out to matter more than it sounds. On a single morning call there are people in Bengaluru who could have come to the hall and chose the screen, an engineer in New Jersey for whom it is eight o’clock the previous evening, and someone in Dubai who is up before work. Nobody is put in a separate beginners’ room; the sequence is the same and the depth is adjusted per person.
The people taking live online yoga classes from India to the USA are the largest group outside India, and almost all of them are in the morning batch, because 6:30 in Bengaluru is a workable evening in both New York and California. Students in the UK and across Europe are on the evening call, which lands at their lunchtime; students in the UAE take whichever suits, and Singapore and Australia sit at opposite ends of the same problem, one comfortable at both slots and the other only at one.
A large share of that group is Indian families split across countries. A mother in Bengaluru and her daughter in Texas in the same class, the same hour, both being corrected by name, is a perfectly normal Tuesday here, and it is one of the few genuinely good things video has done for this kind of teaching.
Try it free, then what it costs
Your first class is free, in any batch, on any day. No card, nothing to cancel. Come once and see whether the teaching suits you before you pay for anything.
There is no card, no trial that quietly becomes a subscription, and nothing to remember to cancel, because you were never signed up to anything. You message on WhatsApp, you are sent the link, you come to the class. If it is not for you, you simply do not come back, and no one will email you about it.
After that, the online class is ₹3,500 a month for students in India, and the same fee applies wherever you join from . There is no joining fee and no annual charge. Paying for three months at once brings the Indian rate to ₹3,200 a month, and six months at once brings it to ₹3,000 a month. Every figure is published on the fees page rather than sent when you ask.
Live online, monthly
₹3,500 / month
Six mornings a week, live
- Live class, camera on, corrected by name
- Two batches: 6:30 AM IST and 7:00 PM IST
- Batch capped at 15, so you are seen
- Recording if you miss one
Questions people ask
If you came here with a problem rather than an ambition, start with the page written for it: yoga for back pain, yoga for anxiety and stress, yoga for weight loss, yoga for PCOS, yoga for thyroid, or starting yoga after forty. Each one says what helps, what to leave alone, and what the evidence actually shows. If you would rather practise first and read later, begin with Surya Namaskar, all twelve steps, the ten minute morning routine, or the guide to how to start yoga at home.
Is the class live, or is it a recording?
It is live, every time. You join a video call at the batch time and the teacher is there, teaching that class to that group, for that hour. Nothing on this page is a library of pre-recorded videos, and there is no app that plays you a session on demand. If a recording exists it is a record of the class you attended or missed, not the product.
Can the teacher really see me and correct me over video?
Yes, if your camera is set up so there is something to see. Cameras stay on, the batch is kept small enough that every person is on screen at a usable size, and corrections are given out loud by name: drop the left shoulder, bend the front knee more, stop holding your breath. Set the camera side-on, about two metres away and at roughly hip height with your whole mat in frame, and the teacher can see your spine and your hips clearly. It is not the same as a hand on your back, which is why the in-person class in Bangalore still exists. It is a different thing entirely from a video that cannot see you at all.
I have never done yoga. Is the online class a bad place to start?
It is a perfectly good place to start, provided you tell the teacher on day one that you are new and provided you keep the camera on. Beginners who hide from the camera are the only ones who get into trouble, because a mistake nobody sees is a mistake that becomes a habit. Every pose is offered at two or three depths and you take the one your body agrees to. Most people who start online have never done yoga, and a fair number of them cannot touch their toes on the first morning.
My parent in India wants to join. Can we attend the same class together?
Yes, and it happens often. Two people in two countries can join the same batch from their own homes, on their own screens, and be taught together. The 6:30 AM IST batch is the one most families use for this: it is the natural morning class in India and it lands in the previous evening across the United States, so a parent in Bengaluru and a son or daughter in New Jersey are in the same class at a sensible hour for both. Each person pays the same fee, wherever they live, and each is billed on their own plan so that a pause or a change by one does not touch the other.
Do I need a mat and any equipment?
A mat or a thick folded blanket, a device with a camera, and enough space to lie flat with your arms out. That is the whole list. A block and a strap are useful later and a rolled towel and a belt do the same job in the meantime. What matters far more than equipment is the floor: practise on a firm surface rather than a carpet with deep pile or, worse, a bed.
What happens if my connection drops mid-class?
Rejoin with the same link. The class carries on and you come back into it wherever it has got to; nobody stops and nobody makes anything of it. If your connection is unstable rather than briefly gone, turn your video off, keep the audio running and follow by voice, then turn video back on when it steadies. If the teacher's own connection drops, everyone waits, the teacher rejoins, and the class runs on to a full hour rather than ending early.
How do the timings work over a whole year with daylight saving?
India does not observe daylight saving, so the Indian time of each batch never moves. What moves is your local clock. In the United States and Europe, when the clocks go forward in spring both batches appear an hour later in your day, and when they go back in autumn they return to the times in the table above. The Gulf, Singapore and most of India's other student regions do not shift at all. Australia moves the other way from the northern hemisphere. You are told before each changeover rather than being left to work it out.
Practise live, from wherever you are
The same class, taught live over video, camera on and corrected by name. Slots that land in the evening in the Gulf and the UK, and an early-IST slot that is a US evening.
You message on WhatsApp, we send the link. No card, and nothing to cancel afterwards.