Yogacharya P R Mohanan started his yoga life in 1981 guided by his uncle, Swami Gaudapadananda Puri, who is an Indian holy man and director of the Vivekananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram Monastery in Kerala, India. He then went on to teach in a popular resort in Varkala and later extended his knowledge and understanding of the yogic philosophy in the Vivekananda Yoga Vedantha Ashram Monastery before teaching at the Sivananda Yoga Centre in Trivandrum, Kerala, India for 14 years as well as in classes at various ayurvedic resorts. He is qualified to teach many different yoga systems. He passed the Yoga Teachers’ Training course – and the Advanced Yoga Teachers’ Training course.
He also qualified at Yoga Vedanta in Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, the Yoga Therapy course at VK Yoga in Banglore and Yoga Instructors course at Vivekananda Kendra in Kanya Kumari, Southern India. In addition to his extensive experience and Indian qualifications, he has the British qualification of a City and Guilds. His Yoga Programme is broadcast on Indian television (DDK and Kairali cable channels). In 2003 he came to England and since then has taught in a variety of settings such as schools, community centres, health spas and leisure centres.
He has also led workshops across the U.K. as well as yoga holidays in Turkey, Spain, Greece and Egypt. Yogacharya P R Mohanan is now living in Liverpool in the UK and taking Liverpool Yoga Classes at various locations around the city as well as running Liverpool Yoga Teacher Training courses.
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