Yogasalai is a volunteer based organization. Our dedicated teachers are all volunteers.
Yogasalai is a school of yoga, a not for profit community group working together to share the knowledge of yoga following the footsteps of great teachers who have walked the talk. Our dedicated teachers believe in sharing this knowledge with the community. Science of yoga is a time tested tool practiced by hundreds of millions of people. It is a perfect tool to achieve wellbeing at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. A path towards self realization and liberation. Yogasalai was founded by Mayavan Ananthanadarajah in April 2011 in Canada, as continuation of his journey of teaching yoga which began in Dec 2006 in India with the International Sivananda Yoga Organization. Yogasalai was founded with the vision of building a self-sustaining yoga community by the community for the community.
Our Teachers
Yogasalai is a volunteer based organization. Our dedicated teachers are all volunteers who believe in sharing this knowledge with the community and making yoga accessible and affordable for everyone. Yogasalai’s team of teachers, youth ambassadors and volunteers are working towards building a sustainable community by enhancing the health and well being of people from all walks of life. Yogasalai has facilitated high school students to become yoga teachers assistants by successfully creating and conducting a 108 hour course called “Yoga Teachers’ Assistant Program”.
Head Teacher
Mayavan is a yoga teacher who has devoted his life in learning and teaching the art and the science behind yogic practices for the past 28 years. He has earned the prestigious Yoga Siromani, Yoga Acharya and Yoga Baskara designations from the International Sivananda yoga and Vedanta centres under both Gurukula system and academically trained in conventional system. He is the founder of Yogasalai. He is a renowned teacher with international centres such as Toronto, Montreal, Val Morin and New York. Mayavan specializes on Prana and Ayurveda aspect of teaching yoga. He has experience teaching specialized classes for strengthening with yoga, asana variations, yoga for vulnerable sectors such as anger management kids with TDSB, Senior Centres, Children with Special needs, Juveniles Correctional Centres, Chair Yoga, Counselling and Guided Meditations and Corporate Yoga Classes. His passion is to share it with the community, to help others to benefit from the peace and joy of authentic, traditional yoga. He also completed Masters in Yoga Therapy from the Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Our Community and Partnership
Our Partnership With OCTD
The Organization of Canadian Tamils with Disabilities (OCTD), is a reputable organization among the Canadian Tamils which has been providing essential support to persons with disabilities and families that have children with disability. Their programs are tailored to be culturally suited to the Tamil community and providing services bilingually in both Tamil and English has proven to be effective for their clients. Even though we have known them for many years, we had the opportunity to work with them closely since February 2017. Since then our teachers regularly offer yoga classes and cooking workshops once a week. Our teachers and youth members also volunteer in OCTD’s workshops giving a hand in their mandate to engage and skill building initiatives for their clients. One of our teachers is also a member of the OCTD board, serving as a director providing advisory services in the aspect of Yoga, Health and wellness promotion.
Our Partnership With Aathi Silambam Martial Arts Academy
Aathi Silambam Martial Arts Academy is a Tamil Heritage Martial art school operating in Ontario over 20 years in Canada. We have partnered with them since Jan 2016 to offer free rejuvenating yoga lessons to their students, help break down the teaching modules to suite people of various age categories for example children and seniors needed modified preparatory yogic exercises which made it easier for them to learn the silambam art, provide advisory services and collaborate in exchanging training techniques, research on the philosophy behind both yoga and silambam in an on going basis.
Our Partnership With Thai Veedu
One of our Yoga teacher writes articles on Yoga Asanas, Breathing techniques, and general yogic lifestyle in Tamil on a monthly basis for the past 2 years. This has a greater welcome in the community and the outreach through such news medium created an awareness of yoga among seniors and new immigrants.
Our Partnership With Centre for Tamil Heritage and Culture
Yogasalai community has partnered with the Centre for Tamil Heritage and Culture (CTHC) since Jan 2012. The CTHC organizes the Tamil Heritage Festival in Canada – the Markham Thai Pongal Villa / Tamil Heritage Celebration. The festival which began as a simple event with 300 people attendance in 2012, has grown year after year to a 2 day grand celebration which takes place at the Markham Civic Centre and the Flato Markham Theatre. Yogasalai team assists with event planning, set up, tear down and also organizes yoga workshops as a part of the Tamil Heritage event series.
Connect with Us!
Our mission is to work with the community towards a healthier, happier and stronger community. We welcome your participation and support reaching this goal. Your participation and moral support is always appreciated. Please contact us to learn more!
Address
210 Silver Star Blvd, Scarborough, ON M1V 5H4
Phone
(647)-760-8156
Email Address
members@yogasalai.org
Business Hours
Monday/Friday: 6:30 am to 8:30 pm
Weekends: 6:30 am to 12:30 pm