Yoga Asanas Online: 6 Platforms For Beginners And Experts

Yoga is an ancient discipline that originated in India but has become wildly popular globally. The essential aim of yoga is to bring harmony between mind and body. The pandemic, having driven everyone indoors for weeks at a time, has also contributed to the popularity of yoga as a means of staying fit at home when other forms of exercise might be difficult.

If you are thinking of becoming a yoga practitioner or just hoping to maintain consistency with your practice, there are options beyond the institutions set up by stalwarts like BKS Iyengar and Baba Ramdev. There are a vast number of YouTube channels that stream videos on different styles of yoga asanas and explain their benefits. However, there are also some paid apps and other platforms where people can get personalised online yoga sessions and fitness sessions under experienced yoga instructors. Everyday in the early morning hours, many TV channels air yoga programmes with experts instructing and performing.

Given below are some of the top-rated Yoga YouTube channels and other well-known sources for yoga classes. The costs mentioned below were originally in US dollars but they have been converted into rupees as per the conversion rates in early March. As is evident from the list below, the online yoga scene is dominated mostly by practitioners outside India.

Do Yoga With Me

Do Yoga With Me was launched by brothers David and Sean Procyshyn in 2008 with the aim to provide “high quality free yoga classes” as their website says. Currently, the website has 600 free online yoga videos with 2 lakh registered users. The yoga videos or the classes are taken by a group of experienced and passionate yoga teachers. The class videos are completely free and can be accessed by all. Anybody, irrespective of their level of knowledge and experience of yoga, can join this community.

Website: doyogawithme.com

Yoga with Adreine

Adreine Mishler started her ‘Yoga with Adreine’ YouTube channel in 2012. The channel has many yoga session videos with different titles such as ‘Yoga for bedtime’, ' Yoga for at your desk’, ' Yoga for anxiety’ and many more. Each video lasts about 45 minutes. Since its inception, it has been one of the best channels for yoga classes and among top five yoga channels on YouTube. Within three years after launching her YouTube channel, Mishler gained millions of subscribers.

Aham Yoga

Another hugely popular channel, Aham Yoga was started by Arundhati Baitmangalkar, an Indian immigrant residing in Washington. Aham Yoga provides classes both online and offline, in the US. Besides regular classes, it also offers workshops and teacher training. For those yoga enthusiasts who want to improve their poses and those who want to workout, this is the best yoga channel to meet your goals. Arundathi also hosts a podcast where she hosts discussions on the authenticity of yoga and yoga as self-care. The fee varies depending on the mode.

Fee: Rs 7,000 per month

Website: ahamyoga.com

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Care Power Yoga

Career Power Yoga is an online yoga platform founded by Trevor Tice. It provides online live streaming videos and on-demand classes for the yoga practitioners. Over 300 yoga videos can be accessed after registration. Every month, a new video gets added to the on-demand classes. You can find any type of yoga videos ranging from a 10-minute meditation video for anxiety, to a 60-minute video class to foster your inner strength.

Fee: Rs 3,000 per month

Website: carepowerondemand.com

Daily Burn

Daily Burn is an app specially designed for those who want to practice yoga to reach their fitness goals. This yoga fitness app offers videos for practitioners ranging from yoga for beginners to experts. This is a paid app but one can download the app and get a 30-days free trial.

Fee: Rs 1,000 per month

Website: dailyburn.com

Booya Fitness

Booya Fitness in collaboration with Real Fitness Studio has featured a vast number of yoga fitness videos. It does not offer free yoga classes. However, one can get a 30 days free trial to access yoga workout videos of all levels, beginner to advanced. It also offers a few unusual workout videos such as strength based training, yoga boxing, and cardio yoga. Upon registration, one can get access to all yoga workout videos.

Fee: Rs 7,000 per month

Website: booyafitness.com