The mission of the Himalayan Yoga Institute is to assist you in becoming a highly competent, inspiring, ethical and spiritually evolved yoga teacher, who will be of service to individuals from all walks of life and who will teach the practices with an open heart facilitating deep physical, emotional and spiritual healing within yourself and your students.
One of the foremost aims of the Institute is to contribute to the development of a new society, based on kindness, compassion, justice and love.
The Himalayan Yoga Institute has at its core the desire to awaken and deepen the interest for yoga and meditation and offer it for the benefit of all. We are eager to help you at every step of your practice and will do our best to assist you along this beautiful path. The principle form of yoga taught by the Himalayan Institute is the Ashtanga Yoga version of Raja Dhiraja, which is a highly comprehensive form of yoga, the most complete system of self-development known today.
Ashiyana was born in a sleepy fishing village in unspoiled North Goa, India, in December 2006, and year upon year it has grown and evolved into what is now one of the most acclaimed yoga and healing retreat centres in India and the world. Ashiyana Brazil opened in October 2019, and our most recent centre opened near Barcelona, Spain in the Spring of 2024.
In 2025 we launched The Ashiyana Journey™ ‘World of wellbeing’, a unique on & offline ecosystem which supports our customers in becoming the very best version of themselves - healthy, fulfilled and long-lived.