Yogacharini Kalavathi Devi has been practicing yoga for nearly 15 years. She is one of Swami Gitananda's Senior students and in 1999 she trained for 6 months at his ashram in India. It was an intensive residential course where Kalavathi lived a Yogic life and learnt in the traditional style of the Guru Chela (student) relationship. Here she learnt the eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga (which you can learn about elsewhere on this website). Kalavathi returns yearly to the ashram to increase her knowledge and deepen her practise.

Kalavathi lives with her husband and two small children in South Wales and has been teaching since she returned from her training in India. Kalavathi teaches a variety of classes, courses, workshops and retreats which can be tailored for all walks of life, including pregnant women and babies, children, special needs and adults. As well as teaching throughout the UK, she has taught has taught in India, Ibiza, Italy, France and Greece. In 2005 and 2006 Kalavathi was invited to give classes and demonstrations at The Yoga Show held in Olympia, London.