We Are Prakruti Yogashala

Darshan ji was raised in a Jain family, his great grand father was a monk, his mother was his first Guru, He spent his early career as an engineer and a physics professor, trained to question everything and to accept nothing on claim alone. That discipline still shapes how he teaches yoga today. His practice was built under teachers, not through courses. He learned asana in the Iyengar tradition, where precision and alignment are non negotiable, and studied under his guru in the Kaula Marga lineage of Tantra. Alongside them, many teachers shaped his understanding of philosophy, anatomy, and the inner dimensions of practice. What he passes on to students is what was passed on to him.
For years he studied how the Gurukul system actually worked, the ancient Indian model where knowledge moved through relationship, repetition, and lived experience rather than syllabus. He saw a clear gap in modern yoga education. Most trainings hand out certificates. Very few build the foundation that makes someone a consistent practitioner and a capable teacher. Prakruti was created to close that gap. In 2022 he left engineering and academia entirely, convinced that the change he wanted to make could not happen from a lecture hall. Prakruti Yogashala is the result: a school built on traditional pedagogy, small in scale, serious about depth, and designed to produce teachers who understand what they are transmitting. His work continues to bridge science and tradition: biomechanics and yoga therapy, philosophy and psychology, physics and consciousness. He currently is finishing his book on biomechanics and Indian cultural sciences, which also became the course manual and guide book for Prakruti students. Outside the school, he is committed to animal welfare, quality education, and keeping India's cultural knowledge alive and evolving.