Founders Profile

Yogacharya Mahesh Chandar has been teaching yoga and meditation for more than 15 years. He is the grandson of Late Yogi Rajappa Sivam, renowned Hatha Yoga expert, a disciple of Swami Abhedananda and author of many authoritative texts on yoga in Malayalam.

He served as a Yoga Teacher at Chinmaya Vidyalaya and was also a Yoga Trainer on projects under the Social Welfare Department. His primary focus has been to deliver the classical Hatha Yoga in its full depth and dimension to the younger generation. With a vision to offer this ancient science in all its purity and to make it available to every individual, he started the Samskriti Yoga Vaidya Nilayam (SYVN).