My Journey towards Trianga Yoga
Welcome, and thank you for visiting Trianga Yoga.
Whether you’ve come to explore Trianga Yoga, learn more about the immersion programmes, deepen your understanding of yoga, or simply satisfy your curiosity, I’m delighted you’re here.
My journey with yoga began more than thirty-five years ago, not merely as the practice of āsana, but as a lifelong exploration of philosophy, spirituality, breath, movement, and self-understanding. Over the decades, that journey has taken me through diverse traditions of Hatha Yoga, Tantra, Kriya Yoga, and classical philosophy, while also leading me to study functional anatomy and the science of human movement.
Trianga Yoga has grown naturally from these experiences. It is my attempt to bring together the wisdom of the classical tradition with a thoughtful, contemporary understanding of practice—integrating body, prāṇa, and mind into a single, coherent path of yoga.
I hope this website offers not only information about Trianga Yoga, but also a place to discover, question, practise, and perhaps see yoga from a fresh perspective. Thank you for being here, and I look forward to sharing this journey with you.
The First Steps
My practical journey into yoga began during my teenage years in Kolkata, where I learnt āsana through traditions influenced by Bishnu Ghosh—the brother of Paramahansa Yogānanda and teacher of Bikram Choudhury—as well as the lineage of Swami Shivānanda of Kāmākhya.
However, growing up in Bengal—a region deeply associated with Hatha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Shākta Tantra, and the Bhakti tradition of Shri Chaitanya—I found myself naturally drawn to the rich spiritual heritage that surrounded me. During my school years, the writings of Swāmi Vivekānanda awakened a deep interest in Advaita Vedānta and encouraged me to explore yoga as a path of self-discovery rather than merely a system of physical exercise.
Despite my growing fascination with yoga philosophy, one statement by Swami Vivekananda left a particularly lasting impression on me: “Body and mind must run parallel.” I continued exploring different approaches to āsana beyond the Ghosh style, spending time at the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger and, in 2005, attending Ashtanga Vinyasa classes in Delhi when the method was still largely unknown in India. Alongside these, I studied other streams of classical Hatha Yoga, gradually integrating the most valuable practices and principles from each tradition into my own practice.
My spiritual journey evolved alongside my physical practice. In 1998, I was initiated into the Mantra Mārga of the Kaula tradition, opening the door to an ongoing study of Shākta Tantra, mantra, ritual, and contemplative practice. A few years later, in 2005, I was initiated into Kriya Yoga in the lineage of Shri Panchānan Bhattāchārya, widely regarded as the foremost disciple of Shri Shyāmācharan Lāhiri. These traditions continue to shape my understanding of yoga as a path of inner transformation grounded in direct experience rather than theory alone.
Over the decades, my study has extended to Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, the Yoga Sūtra, the Bhagavad Gitā, Shākta Tantra, and Kashmir Shaivism. While these philosophical traditions have profoundly influenced my understanding of yoga, I have always believed that genuine insight must ultimately find expression in practice. Philosophy and āsana, contemplation and movement, scholarship and experience have never been separate pursuits for me—they have continually informed and enriched one another.
Sharing the Journey
By the early 2000s, yoga had become far more than a personal practice—it had become a calling. In 2004, I made the decision to leave my job and dedicate myself to teaching yoga full-time. For the next four years, I taught regular classes and conducted yoga workshops across a variety of settings. Yet, as fulfilling as those years were, I gradually realised that something was missing.
While I found great joy in teaching āsana, opportunities to share the deeper philosophical and spiritual dimensions of yoga were few and far between. I increasingly felt that I was presenting only one part of a tradition whose true richness lay in the integration of body, breath, mind, and self-inquiry.
Eventually, I decided to step away from full-time yoga teaching as I felt that I could not yet teach yoga in the complete way I had always envisioned. I spent the next couple of years teaching mathematics to students preparing for the GRE and GMAT examinations. I later returned to the corporate sector, where I worked in the domain of Process Excellence and Analytics.
Looking back, I no longer see those years as a departure from yoga. They gave me the space to continue my personal practice and deepen my study of Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, the Yoga Sūtra, the Bhagavad Gītā, and Tantra. Alongside this, I continued my personal āsana practice, which remained an important part of my daily life and ongoing exploration of yoga.
A significant turning point came in 2015 when I suffered a herniated disc. Recovering from that experience transformed the way I approached practice. It made me far more attentive to how the body responds to movement, posture, breath, effort, and recovery, encouraging a more reflective and observant approach to āsana. This experience eventually inspired me to study functional anatomy more systematically, it has since become an integral part of my teaching.
An Integrated Vision of Yoga
When I returned to yoga as my full-time vocation, I did so with a renewed sense of purpose. From the very beginning of my journey, I have found it difficult to separate one aspect of yoga from another. I knew that I wanted to teach yoga in the same integrated way that had inspired my own journey.
At the same time, I have observed that modern yoga is often presented in fragments. Some approaches emphasise physical postures, others breathwork, others meditation, philosophy, or devotion. While each offers genuine value, they can unintentionally give the impression that yoga consists of independent practices rather than a unified discipline. The classical traditions, however, consistently point towards integration.
It was this perspective that gradually took shape as Trianga Yoga. Rather than creating another style of yoga, my intention is to organise the breadth of the tradition into three complementary dimensions that are both practical and faithful to its classical foundations: Kāya Yoga, which cultivates the body through intelligent movement and functional alignment; Prāṇa Yoga, which refines and directs the vital force through the practices of Hatha and Kundalini Yoga; and Mano-Yoga, which transforms the mind through mantra, devotion, contemplation, and the philosophical traditions of yoga and tantra.
Although these three dimensions may be explored individually, they are ultimately intended to support one another. Together, they reflect the principle that first inspired my own journey decades ago—Swami Vivekānanda’s observation that “Body and mind must run parallel.” Trianga Yoga is my attempt to honour that insight by offering an integrated path in which body, prāna, and mind evolve together.
An Invitation
Yoga has been one of my greatest teachers, and I continue to approach it with the same curiosity and humility that first drew me to it decades ago. Over the past four years of teaching, I have also come to realise that learning does not flow in only one direction. Every class, workshop, teacher training, and conversation with my students has challenged me to reflect more deeply, refine my understanding, and continue growing. For that, I am deeply grateful to every student who has been part of this journey.
If the ideas you’ve encountered here resonate with you, I warmly invite you to explore the rest of this website, join one of the immersion programmes, attend a class or talk, or simply continue the conversation. Whether your interest lies in āsana, prāṇāyāma, philosophy, tantra, or a more integrated understanding of yoga, I hope our paths have the opportunity to meet, and I look forward to sharing this journey with you.