Saraswathi Vasudevan

Saraswathi Vasudevan is yoga teacher, trainer and therapist in the tradition of Sri T Krishnamacharya. She has over three decades of study, practice and teaching experience in this tradition, having studied directly with Sri TKV Desikachar for 17 years and continues to study and teach with senior teachers in this tradition. 

She has two Masters Degrees in Nutrition and Psychology from the University of Madras, Chennai, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Yoga Studies from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), Chennai. In 2010, she founded YogaVahini, a Specialised Yoga Training, Therapy and Research Centre along with her husband Sundar, with the aim of making the transformative and healing wisdom of yoga and personalised yoga therapy more accessible to everyone. YogaVahini has centres in Chennai & Hyderabad and presence in other cities in India and around the world. In 2016 she co-founded Yoga Vahini Foundation, a Public Charitable Trust that aims to bring yoga and yoga therapy to rural and under-served populations through yoga camps and awareness programs.

YogaVahini's study programs offer a strong scaffolding for an aspiring yogi, leading one through every step of learning and teaching using traditional learning methods adapted to the  rapidly changing modern context. YogaVahini was the first school in India to receive accreditation for its Yoga Therapist training program (Yoga Vaidya) from IAYT. 

Saraswathi currently serves on the Voluntary Board of Directors of Yoga Alliance, the largest international yoga certifying and credentialing body which provides strategic direction that advances the development and livelihood of yoga professionals across the world.

In Chennai, she continues to study and teach along with senior teachers like Sri Raghu Ananthanarayanan, R Sriram, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Jyotsna Narayanan, Dr. Latha Satish, Srivatsa Ramaswami, seniors teachers from this tradition.