Ashutosh Mishra & Hema Balan established Explore Yoga in 2016 to offer research based Traditional Yoga that serves the needs of today

Ashutosh has dedicated his life to sharing the transformative power of Yoga through classes, workshops and courses for more than 2 decades now. Right from the start, he identified that Yoga is his call and has never even ventured into any other profession or business. Ashutosh’s students and program participants are from various parts of the World. It was his conscious decision to create a global community of practitioners and teachers. Ashutosh has conducted Yoga sessions at diverse locations such as Goa, Kerala, Kashi, Himalayas, Patna, Kolkata, Bangalore, and a couple of international locales, Bali and Malaysia, As a result his students are actively teaching Yoga in the USA, Canada, Dubai, Thailand, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Germany, UK, Netherlands etc., to name a few. Before embarking on his own (in 2016), he worked at I-AIM (Institute of Ayurveda & Integrated Medicine), Bangalore, a Tata Trusts funded Ayurveda Hospital, where he understood how integrated holistic healing practices work well with Yoga and Yoga Therapy. He is credited as a pioneer of on-call Yoga at Bangalore through one of his clients who operated a call centre. In 2010’s it was an innovative idea that helped to connect well trained Yoga teachers with the needy practitioners in Bangalore. Ashutosh continues to conduct Yoga Teacher Training Courses, Corporate Wellness modules on Stress Management and Office Yoga, lead Yoga retreats at various locations in India and abroad.

Hema completed her Graduation and Post Graduation in Yoga from SVYASA Yoga University. Her certification in Garbha Samskara and proficiency in Yoga Nidra makes her unique. It's sheer coincidence that, like her life partner Ashutosh, Hema has never ventured into working in any other industry or profession as she always wished to create a direct impact on those who come in contact with her. Through Yoga she has been doing the same since 2010.  Hema’s stint at the internationally renowned wellness properties such as Shreyas Retreat and The Tamara Coorg, as well as her continued association with the respected Yoga School Shrimath since 2011 has helped her to understand and personalize Yoga based programs. She has the handson experience in teaching students from 45 Countries across the globe. The reviews about her in TripAdvisor (Shrimath’s account) is a testimony to her reach and impact.  Since 2011, whenever long term residential courses happen, she continues to teach the rural school children and also helps international course participants in farming activities. Hema is multilingual and multifaceted that many international Yoga students learn aspects of life other than from her namely Rangoli, Garland Making, Healthy Cooking etc., Hema specially focuses on (1) Women Wellness (including Garbha Samskara and Pre-natal Yoga), (2) conducting sessions as well as courses on Pranayama and Yoga Nidra and (3) Yoga for Children.