About Us
ABOUT YOGJEEV
YOGJEEV is a group of individuals who are masters in Yoga with experience of teaching around India and neighbouring countries.Yoga is not only limited on mat as an exercise, Yoga has a unique quality to experience of higher effectof practices and yogic lifestyle.
YOGJEEV has planned various yoga activities for people who not only love yoga, also for those who never experienced it.Yogeev has quality and capacity togive completely new and unique experiences to all.
YOGJEEV organise yoga courses, workshops, tours, yoga competitions and many related activities in India and neighbouring countries, giving you a unique experience of each activity and event of YOGJEEV.
Team Members
Sanket Chavan (General Secretary)
Sanket started his yoga journey through participating yoga championship competition at school and college levels.
He has been awarded with many prizes and medals by Indian Universities, national and international yoga clubs
in India and abroad. He has also trained and led many students in yoga championship competition.
Sanket experienced the positivity of yoga and felt many changes in his life during practice for the participation
in yoga championship and his academic career. This experience has led him to dedicate himself for the cause of
yoga since 2007.
His yoga career started with completion of Diploma in Yoga Education from “Yoga Vidya Gurukul,
India”. After learning yoga with its core traditional values and teaching in schools, colleges and private
institutes , Sanket decided to pursue deeper understanding of yoga and its application in everyday life by
joining PGDYT (post graduate diploma in yoga therapy)in Yoga at the world renowned Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute.
He also done200 Hrs RYT -Yoga alliance. There he has been trained in advanced practices of traditional Hatha
Yoga with Scientific base and has also got the skill to use yoga as alternative health science.
He has also sound knowledge and teaching ability in many modern form of yoga like Ashtanga, Vinyasa.
Power Yoga etc.
Sanket is an expert and hardworking yoga Teacher. His practical & subtle synthesis of yoga anatomy with yoga philosophy into asana and pranayama teaching allows his students to build an authentic yoga practice. His ability and expertise in teaching alignment & adjustment of asanas with scientific cues endears him to his students. Sanket inspires his students to take a simple, direct and sublime approach of yoga practices into everyday life. He teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Flow, Power, Yin Yoga, Yoga Therapy, and Pranayama in Yoga Teacher Training programs, yoga workshops and seminars.
Amritesh Prasad (Director)
Amritesh is a uniquely inspiring and experienced Yoga Teacher and Therapist. His teaching mainly focuses on the
connection of body-breath-mind and the subtle effects of yoga on them. Amritesh encourages students to be open
to all aspects of yoga. His relaxed style of teaching is soothing and uplifting. He takes good care to
provide a welcoming and light-hearted environment in his classes where students can feel comfortable in
learning along with experiencing the essence of yoga. He is also very passionate to share his experiences
and practices of yoga to students.
Since last 9 years, Amritesh has been teaching Hatha, Ashtanga,
pranayama, philosophy & meditation through Yoga Teacher Training courses, workshops, seminars,
groups in different yoga institutes, schools, colleges, old age home, and orphanages.
He has joined and
represented in several national and international yoga events spreading the message of health and
well-being to the common mass with help of yoga practices and philosophy.
Amritesh has born in north India and has got spontaneous inclination towards yoga from his childhood.
During his study, he has participated at a different level of yoga championship and been awarded with many medals.
He holds Post Graduate Diploma in Yoga Therapy (PGDYT) from Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, Lonavla and has gone
through a deep study of yoga from different places in India. In the beginning of his yoga practice,
he dedicated himself more to asanas and its physical aspect because of his sound academic knowledge and
carrier of anatomy & physiology.
He has good ability to hold asanas for long time easily and has the
skill to teach difficult asanas in a simple way with scientific cues to the students. But later, he understood that the whole science of yoga has been developed by Yogis not for the body only but to experience something which is beyond body-mind and the art of living blissfully. Apart from his teaching, he devotes time to explore the deeper realm of yoga by joining advanced yoga & meditation retreats.
Sagar Latkar (Director)
Sagar Latkar is an amazing yoga teacher with charming personality . His name means the ocean.
His personality is very similar to the ocean - very open to various perspectives of life. Whenever you see
him he will be smiling & many students have nicknamed him as sunshine teacher because as per them his smile
is like sunshine & it which makes them very happy. When he teaches class (theory or practice) he is completely
focused on it. In his class he shares his experience about yoga and life itself. His classes are fun and
engrossing to experience. He explains about yoga in the most simplest possible way and is open to explore
with other students the depth of yogic experience. His unique way of teaching the class whether theory or
practice makes his class very fun, interesting and enjoyable.
In his class students can explore various
ways to do yogic practice . He also suggests different things for practice and does not restrict it.
His perspective about yoga is - yoga needs to be modified to suit a person’s need and not to modify the
person to suit yoga. His personality is very unique, he is very down-to-earth person, calm and always
listens to everybody’s suggestions or talks or problems of peoples lives.
He is also very understanding and loves to help people when needed. He wishes to see the entire world as a happy place & everyone as a happy person. His voice is very attractive and soothing which makes his prayers chanting very wonderful & peaceful. Everyone loves to listen to his prayers and they also love to record the prayers that he chants.
In his life he has been through a number of different aspects about life. He started his yoga journey at the age of 21-22 but his complete focus was on asana. He hardly had any idea about exactly what yoga is or how deep the love of yoga or the knowledge of yoga is. At the same time side-by-side he was working in office, he was a computer professional. After few years sagar decided to pursue his yoga journey & quit his job. To understand the depth of yoga he undertook a yoga therapy course at Kaivalyadhama yoga & research institute near Mumbai. Through his studies his yoga knowledge enhanced and his practice became more deeper and his perspective about yoga shifted from the asana’s to every aspect of the yogic life.
Work in India - Sagar is associated with Thane District Yoga Association, one of the wonderful and prestigious Yoga Association around Mumbai. With them he has worked as yoga therapist and has been taking public & private classes numerous workshops across India.
After few years he got an opportunity to spread the knowledge of yoga in China and at present he is working in China conducting the classes public & private classes, however his prime focus is the yoga teacher training courses which is excellent at.
Vishal Patil (Manager)
Vishal is a complete personality . his view towards life is not only typically philosophical ,practical or
theoretical but he also finds the reason and purpose of life , his understanding makes everyone excited to
know more about their goal and purpose of life. At age of 15 he started yoga journey to experience changes
according to yoga philosophy, during his yoga practice he participated different yoga championships and he
won many awards. Also National level Player in various Sports and Game's, Marathon Runner/Player,
Vishal has completed his degree in bachelor of commerce , after that he did Bachelor in physical
education (B.PED) to understand science of sports to combine yoga with sports lifestyle .
Since, he was working on different aspects of life ie. physical, mental and emotional ,
he Vishal is a complete personality . his view towards life is not only typically philosophical ,
practical or theoretical but he also finds the reason and purpose of life ,
his understanding makes everyone excited to know more about their goal and purpose of life.
At age of 15 he started yoga journey to experience changes according to yoga philosophy,
during his yoga practice he participated different yoga championships and he won many awards.
Also National level Player in various Sports and Game's, Marathon Runner/Player, Vishal has completed his degree in
bachelor of commerce , after that he did Bachelor in physical education (B.PED) to understand science of sports to
combine yoga with sports lifestyle . since he was working on different aspects of life ie. physical, mental and
emotional , he decided to get more involve in yoga by completing yoga
certification in N.I.S.(NATIONAL INSTITITE OF SPORTS,PUNJAB) During all this journey he also finished
2 year's advance DIPLOMA in YOGA. From Mumbai University. His information were turning in to knowledge
to get experience about own life. He didn’t stop his learning process, instead he did M.PEd.
(Master's in Physical Education), P.F.C.C (Gym & Specialty in Aerobics.) his inner journey never stopped.
Vishal’s journey never got affected during career struggle and inner journey of life. He is the personality who has been balanced everything ,he is an ideal personality . His qualities made him - Player, Teacher, Coach, Trainer, Rafree – Judge etc. in very short time he became a guru of some disciples and he is on top in society .He is a General Secretary of Thane District Yoga Association and Currently working as a.. Sports Director in Mary's M.H.J.C. Education institute.