Nepal is an amazing country, where unique conditions have been created by nature for meditation and yoga.
Yoga Centers
Pokhara provides a huge variety of specialized centers where you can find harmony with your body and spirit. For example, Purna Yoga is a popular yoga center offering daily practice: physical - asanas, respiratory - pramaana and meditation, and additional healing methods - reiki and massage.
The Garden Yiga Chopen Meditation Center (address: Nah. Kahare Lakeside, Kaski District, Pokhara) emphasizes the daily lessons of hatha yoga. In Sadhana Yoga you will also be offered mud baths.
Copan
In Kopan, located 25 km east of Kathmandu, you can take yoga classes with professional mentors. Such a program consists of morning meditation, training, discussion of the morning lecture, meditation with a mentor, reflection. The cost per person for seven days fluctuates around 530 USD.
Yoga in Kathmandu
Kathmandu also has a number of schools, the choice of which depends on your preferences and expectations. The center of Pranamaya, located in the Kantipath area, is 10 minutes from the center of the Tamel region, has a wide range of styles: hatha yoga, astanga yoga, sivananda yoga, vina yoga, liengar yoga and meditation.
In the center of the Tamel region, just above the Jatra Cafe is the Charak Yoga Center, which also offers a variety of yoga styles. Lessons are held daily at 7.00-8.30, 16.00 - 17.30, and 18.00 - 19.30.
Chetana Yoga - Yoga Nepal & Naturapaths Association, in the center of Tamel - Parnajol, opposite the Manang hotel, is ready to heal you with the help of yoga, meditation, massage, reiki and natural healing. Every day, yoga classes take place from 5.30 am to 7.00 am, and from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm.
Kathmandu Valley
Ananda Yoga Center is located in the village of Matatirtha in the Kathmandu Valley, it can be reached in 30 minutes by car. In addition to classes, you can fully penetrate the life of the local population and come into contact with their life. The best option is a 3-day cleansing of the body.
Next to the largest stupa in Nepal, Swayambhunath is the Himalayan International Yoga Academy, where the practice of yoga kriya, ashtanga and hatha is at the highest level.
The Patanjali Yoga Center is the oldest yoga center, which started the first to offer multi-day yoga courses with accommodation. A lot of tourists go especially to the yoga guru Sushil Bhattacharya, who is continuously sharing experience in hatha yoga, pramayana, mudra, bandha, shat-kriya (methods of cleansing the body), dhuana, kirtan (spiritual chants) and mantras, sapta yoga and ayverdic massage.
In general, the average cost of one yoga class in Nepalese centers lasting 1 hour 30 minutes is 5USD. The cost of a day of classes and accommodation in the center is about 50USD.
Yoga-tracking
Fans of hiking and yoga can combine both of their passions while passing the classic route of the track to the Annapurna, Langtang or Everest areas, where there are stops for yoga and meditation in the background of the most beautiful places in this country.