Name: World Peace Yoga School
Item: World Peace Yoga School
Rating: 4
Author: Rebecca

World Peace Yoga School is a lively, vibrant and cutting-edge ashram that differentiates itself by offering not only yogic practices but also by providing the correct understanding, traditions, context and meaning of yogic science, asana and philosophy.

Yoga Alliance Certified 200 & 100 hour Ashtanga, Hatha, vinyasa & International Yoga Alliance 100 & 200 hour Meditation Teacher Training In Rishikesh, India for beginner & advance.
Open yourself up to the countless opportunities that only World Peace Yoga School can provide with our world renowned 100, 200 hour Yoga-Teacher-Training & Meditation-Teacher-Training Courses, yoga retreats programs located in magical Rishikesh, India. World Peace Yoga School is a lively, vibrant and cutting-edge ashram that differentiates itself by offering not only yogic-practices but also by providing the correct understanding, traditions, context and meaning of yogic science, asana, meditation and philosophy. Our school’s mission is to promote world peace through spreading the yogic message of love, kindness and the commitment to spiritual development. Yoga is a beautiful and enriching way to connect with others and ourselves. We believe that no matter which country we come from or call home, we are all one.

Yogi Vishnu Panigrahi has been steeped in spiritual endeavors since childhood. As a young boy, his grandfather advised him to meditate and pursue spirituality from an honest and pure perspective.

A Radhe-Krishna Temple was constructed by his grandfather in their village in Odisha, India where Vishnu would frequently serve food and water to wandering sadhus.

In the larger town ten kilometers away from his village, young Vishnu would skip school and attend the satsang (spiritual company and discourse of the saintly) of several swamis, counting among them was Swami Avdheshanand Giri of Haridwar. He found a kalyana-mitra (friend on the noble path) in a boyhood friend who would arrange to meet with him at 3 a.m. in secluded places away from the village. Here they would join for meditation and chant "Mohamudgaram," a famous hymn by Adi Shankaracharya, to dispel their fears and gain vairagya (intense inclination to renunciation).
On Sundays and holidays, Vishnu would serve the impoverished people at the nearby hospital by washing them and taking care of those waiting and recovering from treatment. There was always a lack of nurses to care for the patients who had to lay on the cement floor with bare facilities. One day, young Vishnu met an old man who had a horrible odor with small worms attached to his legs. He was neglected by the doctors for a long time but eventually, his legs were treated and bandaged. For a few days, Vishnu took it upon himself to care for the man by cleaning his beard and taking care of his every need. The man was so grateful and — driven to happiness the old man blessed young Vishnu.

Stay at World Peace Yoga School and experience India in a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere with other spiritually like-minded individuals. Rooms for students are located at Laxman Jhula Regency Hotel where the yoga school is also held.

The hotel is perfectly situated near the magical waters of the Ganges River and all the popular shops, markets and cafes are just around the corner. Witness glorious pastel-colored sunsets at the end of each day on our terrace balcony where you are free to do meditation and yoga. Sleep soundly in a quiet, serene atmosphere without disruption. Absorb the beautiful and breath-taking sights of the Ganges River visible from our yoga halls, bedrooms and balcony.

Amenities:
Wifi access
Hot water running 24 hours a day
Clean, hygienic and western-style rooms with attached bathrooms
Filtered water system for drinking
Bed sheets, blankets, pillows and towels are provided

Sort By

Rebecca
Overall Experience

I did the 500h course for kundalini febr/mar 2024.
I was a life changing experience and after some adjustment time I fell in love with Rishikesh (February was really cold, but I tought I would be nice and warm 🙈).
Maa Hari Priya came in March and she was amazing! She is a powerfull, gentle, wise, caring and overall incredible woman and teacher. I am so gratefull that I could follow her amazing kundalini lessons and ceremonies 🙏❤️
For me she is everything a great rolemodel should be and I can’t wait to go back and follow more of her classes/ trainings.
The other teachers are incredible too. But Ankur ji (kriya, mudra and bandha) and Anant ji (anatomy) made my day. They were do funny and skilled in making the subjects fun while still teaching the material. 🙏❤️
The food was often a bit to much spicy for me and there where a lot of carbs and not that much options for veggies (without sauce)
The cooks are really helpfull and great in there job and the pancakes, dahl and parata’s where amazing!
Manisha at the front desk was so sweet and helpfull. I really loved her personal touch and attention for everybody.
Good to keep in mind that it is an Ashram and the room are great (for an Ashram)
It is India however, so elektriciteit and warm water sometimes don’t work.
Excursions was twice a month on Sunday. Loved the Temple (went twice). The chanting with Hari Priya is one of my favourite moments!
As feedback I would say the cleaning could be better. Maybe some spray bottles and wipes so everybody could clean there own yogamat after using it would be a start. I bought my own (for a few euro’s) in town.
Personally I didn’t like the many moments of photo’s etc for the social media. I understand that for a lot of people it is part of there job/earnings but I didn’t like that. Also the students are much more divers then is showed on insta.
A tip is to take your western yoga clothes (pants) with you because there is no show that sells them only cotton ones.
I really want to thank the teachers and staff at WPY!
❤️💋 Rebecca
2 years ago
Ghalia
Overall Experience

Warning: this might be the longest review but the most honest one.
As much as I’d love to leave a review saying that this was the worst yoga school I’ve ever been to and wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemies, but I’m a good person and will leave a very honest review.
First let me state that this school has three buildings and the pictures on the website are only from the latest/nicest building and so it is you and your luck which building you’re placed in, and the other two buildings are pretty old and look absolutely nothing like the pictures. So false advertising here.
Second, I payed for a private room, which says on the website that I get a nice balcony, I did not get a balcony and the room had two single beds instead of one kind/queen size bed and again the room looked nothing like the pictures.
Third, the website says that all rooms have AC units (not all rooms do) and the rooms that do have an AC unit, you have to pay 300$ extra PER NIGHT if you want to use it which is not mentioned on the website anywhere (they might change the website after this review because they tend to do that a lot but at the time I joined, nothing was mentioned)
So that’s for the accommodation.
Now for the course:
The girls that were taking the 200 hrs ashtanga vinyasa course were pretty happy and satisfied with the teachers and the course so I can’t put a judgment to that.
I enrolled to the 100 hrs meditation course and it was a total disaster.
First day we did ABSOLUTELY nothing, just wasting time in useless conversations about our selves and our lives and did not do any session of meditation or speak anything about meditation and it was pretty bad and disappointing.
And the only “meditation session” we had was supposed to be kondalini yoga (I don’t know much about kondalini) but the teacher first asked us to jump in our place to receive energy from the ground then put music on his phone and told us to dance around (and he started dancing too) then told us to sit in silence then lie down, without explaining anything about what we were doing and why but If that were a method from kondalini yoga, I don’t think it was suitable for a first day.
Then I complained and wanted to leave the school because of just first day but then the management told me to give it another try because first day is usually slow (which it shouldn’t be because I’m only taking 100 hrs)
But anyway I did give it another day and I saw a tiny bit of improvement, the teacher were slightly going by the course schedule and giving information about meditation.
But then the third day they were just repeating them selves and again the class was going off topic and somethings were completely not related to mediation and it was a total disaster.
One teacher kept looking at the time to see how much is left and what BS should he continue with till it’s time to end the class.
It seems to me that the teachers know what they’re doing (maybe) when it comes to the ashtanga vinyasa course but have no idea what they’re doing for the meditation course.
And I put all the blame on the management for putting them in such a position because they seem like nice people and for being total hypocrites.
We were only 4 girls in the program, me and another girl ended up leaving by day 3 and barely got our money back (obviously didn’t get the whole amount back because this school is all about making money with lies)
It’s really disappointing to see that there are schools out there trying to make money by scamming people when one of the first principles of yoga is truthfulness….
There is nothing wrong with making money but it is truly horrible when you take advantage of people that want to make a difference in their lives and others.
9 years ago

You must be logged in to post a comment.

World Peace Yoga School

Welcome back

Sign up for Review My Retreat