Class Details


Classes at Shanti Bhavan are led in traditional Sivananda style by Sivan.
Yoga is twice a day at 7.30am and 4pm for about 90 mins per session.
For complete beginners the class is at 9.30am. The cost is Rs250 per class.
Classes are ongoing throughout the season; November through to the end of March.

Sivan is from Kerala and grew up in Pachalloor, the backwaters on the outskirts of Kovalam. He studied yoga at the Sivananda Ashram at Neyyar Dam and obtained his masters certificate there. A qualified, experienced and professional teacher, Sivan has lived in England holding residential weekends and classes in Cornwall, taught at The Yoga Shala in Manchester, enjoyed being a guest teacher at Hazur Vadisi in Turkey and teaches in Europe during the summer.
He has been teaching yoga in Kovalam since 1998.