Omshankar was born in Dharamsala, where he did his basic study. At the age of 11, he started to learn and practice yoga. He has traveled and visited many yoga ashrams, and also lived with many great yogis and masters throughout India. He did his first yoga teacher training course in the year 2006. Thereafter, in 2009, he studied classical Hatha yoga from Bangalore. Since 2010, he has been running a successful center in the Himalayas, and many courses in yoga, meditation, Reiki, yoga therapy, pranayama, and 200-hour yoga teacher training.