Your Path to Balance and Clarity Starts with Traditional Hatha Yoga in Europe
Are you looking for more calm, clarity, and joy in your everyday life? At the Classical Hatha Yoga Teachers Association (CHYTA), we bring together independent teachers trained in over 1750+ hours of intensive instruction to offer you traditional hatha yoga, yoga flows and yoga asanas. Beyond fitness or stretching, these practices are designed to quiet the mind, energize the body, and support lasting inner well-being.
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Who We Support
The Seeker
Even with past exposure to yoga and spiritual wisdom, you still feel unsure how to bring the practices fully into daily life. Stress, distraction, and a lack of deeper experience often leave you searching for more consistency and real transformation.
The Restless Achiever
Life is good on the outside, but inside you feel unfulfilled and drained by stress and constant mental chatter. You long for balance and clarity, but with limited time you don’t know where to begin.
The Wounded Healer
After heartbreak, depression, or struggles with addiction, you feel lost and out of control. You are searching for strength and a healthy way to rebuild your life without falling back into old patterns.
The Silent Sufferer
Years of back pain, stiffness, and recurring injuries have left you frustrated after countless treatments that didn’t last. You simply want to move freely again and hope for a method that can finally bring lasting relief.
No matter where you start — with stress, pain, or just curiosity — Classical Hatha Yoga offers a path to balance, vitality, and inner strength.
What Is Classical Hatha Yoga And How It Compares
Unlike popular studio yoga or quick fitness classes, hatha yoga offers much more than physical exercise. It is a powerful system of ancient practices designed to bring harmony between body, mind, and energy.
| Studio Yoga / Fitness Classes | Classical Hatha Yoga structured by Sadhguru |
|---|---|
| ✖ Focus mainly on physical workout and flexibility | ✔ Integrates body, mind, energy for holistic well-being |
| ✖ Often taught in a fast-paced hatha flow style | ✔ Practices taught with precision, depth, and stillness |
| ✖ Benefits usually last only for the duration of the class | ✔ Tools you can practice at home daily for lasting impact |
| ✖ Inconsistent teaching quality, varies by instructor | ✔ Teachers trained with 1750+ hours of rigorous training |
| ✖ Short-term stress relief, but mind remains restless | ✔ Calms the mind, improves clarity and emotional balance |
| ✖ Primarily group exercise with limited personal attention | ✔ Personalized guidance and smaller class settings |
| ✖ Social, fun activity but often lacking depth | ✔ A profound path of growth rooted in thousands of years of yogic tradition |
“Hatha Yoga is not body-bending business. It is about taking charge of the way you think, feel, and perceive life.”
Sadhguru
Who We Are
The Classical Hatha Yoga Teachers Association (CHYTA) is a non-profit community of independent teachers across Europe who offer yogic practices structured by Sadhguru. Our mission is to make traditional hatha yoga accessible, trusted, and recognised everywhere.
We offer yoga in its pure form, just as it has been practiced and transmitted in India for thousands of years — a rarity in Europe today. Each of our teachers has personally overcome limitations and transformed through these powerful practices, which gives us the first-hand experience and intrinsic motivation to help others walk the same path.
We believe in collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness — supporting each other as teachers while reaching more people like you.
Explore the Practices
Through carefully designed hatha yoga sequences, breathing techniques, and meditative practices, you can experience clarity, inner balance and physical health. We offer both slower, more meditative and faster, more intense yogic practices for different purposes.
Our most sought-after and beginner-friendly practices we offer are:
Upa Yoga
A gentle but effective way to start your yoga journey
Surya Kriya
A meditative and powerful hatha yoga flow to energize your system
Yogasanas
Postures that bring stability, balance, and inner strength
Angamardana
A dynamic process to build strength, fitness, and resilience
Surya Shakti
A dynamic yoga flow for physical strength and fitness
Bhuta Shuddhi
An elemental purification practice for balance and clarity
Frequently Asked Questions
What is traditional hatha yoga?
Traditional hatha yoga is a holistic practice that combines physical postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation. Unlike modern fitness yoga styles, it emphasizes both body and mind, helping you find balance, clarity, and inner stillness while also building physical health.
Do I need prior experience to join a Classical Hatha Yoga class?
No, beginners are welcome. The practices are adaptable: slower, meditative sessions guide you gently, while faster, more dynamic sessions challenge you when you’re ready. Each class is structured so everyone, regardless of experience, can benefit.
Do I need to be flexible to start Classical Hatha Yoga?
Not at all. Flexibility develops gradually through practice. Traditional hatha yoga is designed to meet you where you are, using postures, breathing, and awareness to build mobility and strength safely over time. Many people actually begin yoga because they are not flexible.
Is Classical Hatha Yoga religious?
No. Hatha yoga is a spiritual and practical discipline, not a religion. While its roots are ancient and connected to Indian philosophy, our classes focus on universal practices of breath, body, and awareness that anyone can benefit from, regardless of personal beliefs.
How much time do I need to practice Classical Hatha Yoga?
You can benefit even from short sessions of 20–30 minutes a few times a week. Longer sessions of 60–90 minutes allow for a deeper experience. The key is consistency: regular practice, even if short, has lasting effects on energy, focus, and overall well-being.