Our Lineage
Paramahamsa Madhavadasaji
His Holiness Paramahamsa Madhavadasaji was born in 1798 to a Mukhopadhyaya family in Bengal in a small village near Shantipur in Nadia district. He renounced the mundane life and made efforts to learn different traditions.Shri Yogendraji
Shri Yogendraji kept very clear records of all the work he has done in Yoga right from the beginning and many more people came to him mainly for solution of their physical and emotional problems. He wrote books and did a great deal of research and slowly the Institute grew in stature.
Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra
In 1987, he set up the first Museum on Yoga at the Institute. Since taking charge at the Institute, he has concentrated in formalizing ancient knowledge for common householders and laymen by publishing various books in yoga.
Smt. Hansaji J Yogendra
Smt. Hansaji Jayadeva was born in 1947 in an aristocratic Jain family. Her schooling was at Vile Parle, a cultural western suburb of Mumbai. The education at her school was based on Gandhian principles.