Sri Sheshadri's Biography
V. Sheshadri is one of the most experienced and respected Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teachers in the world. He teaches in the traditional style as passed down from Sri Krishnamacharya, Sri Pattabhi Jois, and his guru, Sri BNS Iyengar.
Sri Sheshadri began practicing yoga asana in 1985 with his first teacher, Yoga Vishareada BNS Iyengar at the Parakala Mutt in Mysore, India. He practiced with him for 13 years and, in addition, learned kriyas and pranayama with Prakash Guriji in Bangalore, Malvan in Uttar Pradesh, and Sri Dhirendra Brahmachari in North India. He has travelled widely in India to deepen his knowledge, and practised asanas in Rishikesh, Badari, Kedaranath, Kanyakumari and the Bihar School of Yoga of Swamy Satyananda Saraswati. In Addition to this Sri.Sheshadri is learning Patanjala Yoga Darshna from Maharshi Nagaraja Surya Narayana Pande in Patanjaliya Yoga Kendra , Mysore.
His Yoga Championships titles include:
- 1st Place - 21st State Championship, 2001, Karnataka Yoga Association, Bangalore
- 3rd Place - 19th Karnataka State Yoga Championship, 2000, Karnataka State Yoga Association, Bangalore
- 7th Place - National Himalaya Yoga Olympiad 1998, Vivekananda Kendra Yoga, Bangalore
- 2nd Place - Karnataka State Yogasana Open Championship, 2000, Sri Vasavi Yoga Kendra, Bangalore
- 1st Place - South Indian Yogasana Open Championship, 2000, Sri Vasavi Yoga Kendra, Bangalore
- 3rd Place - Himalaya Yoga Olympiad, 1998, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga
- 5th Place - 25th National Championship, 2000, Yoga Federation of India
- 3rd Place - 7th International Yoga Festival, 1999, Department of Tourism, Pondicherry
- 2nd Place - 7th Karnataka State Yoga Non-Medalist Competition, 1996, Karnataka Yoga Association, Mandya
Sri Sheshadri began teaching in 1994 at the Renukacharya Temple, and continued to teach there until 2000. He started teaching Western students there in 1998.
In 2001 he started teaching at the Mysore Mandala. This was where Sri Sheshadri started being introduced to more Western students. It was here that he gained his fame for being a very attentive teacher with a great sense of the students' needs. He developed his style of assisting students with deep adjustments to get them to fulfil their potential. This is the part of teaching that he enjoys the most, whether with students who are new to yoga or more advanced ones.
Sri Sheshadri has a keen sense for detail in the postures and he has been able to pass this on to hundreds of students who are now trained through his Teacher Training courses.
In 2007, Sri Sheshadri went on his first European teaching tour. In 2007 and 2008, he went to Vienna and Tulln in Austria and to Berlin and Cologne in Germany. In 2009, Sri Sheshadri was accompanied on his European tour by his son Harish. They completed a one-month tour of Europe which included Austria, France and Germany.
In 2010, and in future years, he plans make regular teaching tours in Europe again. For current information, please check the relevant page of this website.
In addition, Sri Sheshadri has been passing on his knowledge of yoga teaching to his son Harish. Sri Sheshadri and Harish have been teaching together on a daily basis since 2004. Sri Sheshadri feels that a yoga teacher is the link between God and the students and that he is passing on this ancient tradition to his son.