Abhaya Balaji
Abhaya Balaji is the founder of Yoga Netri, a holistic wellness practice she established in Bangalore in 2017 with the intention of making ancient, time-tested practices the centre of her work. She is a trained Isha Hatha Yoga teacher with eight years of experience teaching students across the world, a track record that brings both breadth of perspective and a grounded confidence to her teaching. Her ongoing exploration of complementary disciplines has taken her through training in Integral Regression Therapy with JIVA, Holotropic Breathwork facilitation, Nature Cure with IMANAH, and Process Work with Sumedhas — a range of credentials that speaks to a practitioner who has pursued her education with genuine curiosity rather than collecting certifications for their own sake.
Through Yoga Netri, Abhaya offers classical Hatha Yoga classes alongside the vigorous physical practice of Angamardana, Holotropic Breathwork facilitation, Integral Regression Therapy sessions and a programme of immersive wellness retreats. Her work is deliberately varied, recognising that different people arrive at different moments in their lives and may need different points of entry. Rather than prescribing one path, she draws on her multi-disciplinary background to meet each client across their physical, mental and spiritual dimensions, working with the whole person rather than presenting a single modality as the answer to everything.
What sets Abhaya apart is not the breadth of her certifications but the coherence of her underlying philosophy. She holds that genuine well-being is cultivated through consistent, conscious practice rather than through quick fixes or one-off experiences. This conviction shapes the pace and texture of her teaching — sessions are grounded and unhurried, with space for students to actually absorb what they are doing and why. She brings a disciplined classical lineage from her Isha Hatha Yoga training into dialogue with the somatic and psychological insight she has gathered from breathwork and regression work, creating a practice that addresses the body, the nervous system and the deeper patterns that sit beneath them.
Yoga Netri is a good fit for those who are serious about building a real practice rather than sampling wellness as a weekend activity — people who want to understand what they are doing, not just feel good in the moment. It is also a thoughtful choice for anyone navigating stress, emotional difficulty or a need for deeper self-understanding who would benefit from working with a teacher trained across both classical yoga and therapeutic modalities. Abhaya works from Bangalore and you can find her and Yoga Netri at yoganetri.com or follow her on Instagram at abhaya.balaji.