Richa Kalra
YCB Level 6- Yoga Therapist| Faculty - YCB TTC | Phd Scholar | Ayushman Yog
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Areas of Expertise
YCB Teacher Training | Yoga Therapy and Disease Management | Alignment-Conscious and Body-Aware Teaching | Anatomy, Physiology and Therapeutic Application |
About Richa
Richa grew up with Yoga. Her grandfather was a yoga teacher, and the practice was woven into the fabric of their home long before she ever stepped onto a mat with any formal intention. His stories, his students, and the quiet discipline of his own life planted something in her that took years to fully surface.
As her personal practice deepened, she found herself drawn beyond asana, into breath, into awareness, into the less visible ways that yoga shapes the nervous system and the mind. And the more she practised, the more a particular question began to occupy her: why does the same posture get taught so differently across different schools and traditions? That question was not merely academic. It pointed to something important, that correct practice is not a rigid prescription but an intelligent, body-aware, alignment-conscious approach that respects each practitioner's capacity and limitations. Pursuing that answer honestly is what set the direction of everything that followed.
Qualifications & Credentials
Richa holds a YCB Level 6 certification as a Yoga Therapist, one of the most advanced levels of the government-recognised YCB framework under the Ministry of AYUSH, which gave her a thorough grounding in the therapeutic applications of yoga, anatomy, physiology, and the management of health conditions through yogic intervention. Her journey through the YCB pathway began at Level 1 and progressed steadily, each stage deepening both her understanding and her commitment to the rigour of the tradition.
Alongside her yoga credentials, Richa is a PhD Scholar in Linguistics, a discipline that, perhaps more than it might seem, shares much with the study of yoga. Both are concerned with structure, meaning, and the relationship between form and understanding. It is a parallel she finds genuinely instructive, and it sharpens the analytical precision she brings to her teaching.
Professional Journey
Richa enrolled at Ayushman Yog to pursue her YCB Level 1 certification. What she found there extended well beyond what she had come for. The depth of the curriculum, the seriousness of the academic framework, and the rigour of the YCB pathway drew her further in through Level 1, and onward to the Level 6 Yoga Therapist certification. It is a trajectory that reflects not institutional requirement but genuine intellectual appetite.
Following the completion of her advanced certification, Ayushman Yog invited her to join as faculty, a role she stepped into with the same instinct for depth and precision that had brought her through the programme.
At Ayushman Yog
Richa serves as faculty in the YCB Teacher Training Courses, teaching practical classes to students across different stages of their certification journey. In the practical space, she works to help students develop, technical competence, genuine body intelligence; the kind of awareness that makes a practitioner safe, adaptable, and confident, rather than merely correct on the surface.
Her teaching is shaped by everything she has come from: a family tradition of practice, a researcher's instinct for curiosity, and a practitioner's understanding that the question of how yoga is taught matters as much as what is taught.
Teaching Philosophy
Yoga, for Richa, only becomes truly meaningful when it moves off the mat and into the way one lives. That conviction rooted in three generations of practice, refined through advanced study, and tested in the classroom, is what she brings to every student she teaches.