Basic Info

First Name

Ram

Last Name

Jain

Nickname

ramjain

About the instructor

Bio

For more than twenty years Ram Jain has served as one of the important contributors and educators in the field of yoga, meditation and philosophy. Throughout his career Ram has trained more than 4000 yoga teachers from all around the world. Along with his wife he has co-authored the best seller book in its category: Hatha Yoga for Teachers and Practitioners – A Comprehensive Guide for Holistic Sequencing – which is currently being translated and published in multiple languages.

 

Born and raised in India in a traditional Hindu family, Ram was sent to a Vedic school for his formal education. He studied Sanskrit, Yoga, the Vedas & Upanishads from the age of eight years from traditional teachers. He has also studied modern yoga styles with Western teachers such as Paul Grilley and David Swenson. In 2009 – after an eleven-year career as a yoga teacher – he founded the Arhanta Yoga Ashrams in India & in the Netherlands, which offer professional yoga teacher training programs.