Yogacharya Lalit Kumar is the Founding Director of Himalaya Yoga Valley Centre. He has over 15 years experience teaching nationally and internationally. He is a prominent and established yoga teacher in the world yoga community with a strong following within the yoga teaching community.

As lead teacher on all Himalaya Yoga Valley educational programs, Lalit divides his time between the Goa centre his European centre in Ireland working on 200 & 5oo hour training’s. Lalit also holds regular yoga retreats and immersions around the world. Lalit teaches popular annual workshops & masterclasses in Switzerland, France, Germany, Denmark, The UK, Italy, Spain. Lalit is the Hon. Secretary for International Yoga Federation for Ireland and Dharamshala.

Lalit began studying at traditional Indian yoga schools known as Gurukulams at the age of 7 and he is honored to have studied yoga under some of the most well-known and respected yoga Masters in India. Lalit was initiated by Swami Veda Bharti of the Himalayan tradition in 2003. He has spent nearly a decade studying numerous traditional styles and disciplines at various Ashrams in North and South India. He studied Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore at Ashtanga Yoga Nilaya and Shri Parakala Mutt. Lalit has also studied at the Sivananda Centre in Trivandrum and spent his formative spiritual years at Swami Ram Sadak Gurukulam in Rishikesh. Lalit has studied under Sri BKS Iyengar and Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Sri Sharath Jois and Sri BNS Iyengae in Mysore and. Lalit continues to train in the Mysore with Sharath Jois as a humble and devoted student. In 2014, Lalit’s son Oisín was born and has been his kindest teacher so far.