Soumya Pahwa is a yoga teacher having learnt and practised yoga for about 10 years and has been teaching yoga since 2018. She has been trained in the aspects of yoga as enshrined by her teachers at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute Pune) .
Yoga is her passion and a way of life, as her world revolves around yoga. Over the years she has been able to harmonize her body, mind, breath & soul, creating a peaceful and vibrant self within herself, and this has been possible due the teachings of Yoga by her teachers at RIMYI , who have been the torch bearers of the teachings of her Guru.  
She considers it as a deep honour to have you visiting her yoga page and trying to get educated about Iyengar’s yoga and to know more about her as a person and a yoga teacher.
SAMATRA symbolises equanimity and evenness of mind, which is the quintessential part of yoga, which every yoga practitioner strives to attain.
The Sanskrit word SAMATRA is an amalgamation of two words, SAMA + TRA. SAMA symbolises the equanimity of the mind and the breath as it embodies a balanced state. TRA is deemed, as to be in the present, and that equanimity needs to be achieved now. Her site epitomes her perpetual state of mind and her own life and enunciates the teachings and traditions of Iyengar’s Yoga as enshrined by her Guru BKS Iyengar .
Her initiation into yoga started at an early age, during school hood, where they were taught the basics of asanas as a part of the overall physical development programs. As the years rolled by, personal traumatic experiences left her physically and mentally very vulnerable and traumatized. It was at this juncture that she turned to yoga to heal mentally and physically and get back the confidence that had been lost due to the external gravities that had weighed down her confidence and self-esteem. That was the SAMATRA moment of her life and the beginning of her transformation.
Yoga helped her evolve positively at all levels; physical, mental, emotional and above all spiritual. Her metamorphosis and transformation made her realise the power of Yoga and my self-confidence discovered a NEW HER ,as she discovered yoga as the catharsis in the evolvement a NEW Her. As she traversed through her yogic journey, it dawned on her that she needed to give back to Yoga what it had given her, and to carry the torch of knowledge that her Guru and instilled in her. The ten long years of being taught yoga,readied her to now teach yoga on her own as she now started teaching yoga since 2018.
Yoga is a journey, a journey of knowing oneself, and she as a teacher would be guiding you through this journey of your, self-discovery.
She have been trained by the best of teachers from the Iyengar school of Yoga and by some of the finest teachers in Ashtangayoga, which has resulted in her being exposed to the best of the two worlds in yoga.
Her online and offline classes are conducted in the Iyengar methodology and style of yoga, which is unique as it emphasises the concept of alignment and precision, and the use of props, which is unique to this form of yoga.
She is a certified AYUSH Teacher and Evaluator, Level-3, a qualified Iyengar teacher and she conducts special programs & classes for the elderly, in Wellness, as Wellness is the key to Well Being. She branched out to evolving specialised programs for people with injuries and women who were facing physical mid-life crisis, which is a part of womanhood
She has partnered in writing the of a book on Iyengar yoga & its philosophies, called “Gems from the MASTER “
Join her through this fascinating journey of what could be game changer, as you discover the way of life and partake in a Yogic journey , as you walk in the shadows of the path laid down by her Guruji ( BKS IYENGAR)
Welcome to the world of Samatra BKS Iyengar Yogashala , where we hold in the highest esteem Yoga – the IYENGAR way .

Sincerely yours;
Soumya Pahwa