Shashi Kumar is the founder of Mystic School, Mysore. He has been a spiritual seeker since birth. In his childhood he learn yoga and vedas and has always been passionate towards spiritual activities. This began a fascination with the disciplines of internal martial arts, Qi gong, Tai chi, Thai yoga massage, Hatha yoga and other similar subjects. His multi-dimensional passion encouraged him to create a place known as “Mystic School”, a space for spiritual practice and also a place to relax and chill out.

Surya Vatsa is an RYT 200 Ashtanga yoga teacher from Russia. Born to an Indian father and Russian mother, she was lucky to discover yoga at a very young age. Her first formal yoga class was in 2000 when she fell in love with the practice. Finally, she knew that her life would be dedicated to yoga. At that moment, she began looking at India as her second home. Surya teaches people of different levels. In her classes, she is happy to see both a novice who has no idea about yoga and a strong practitioner, with whom she can share her third series experience.

Swami Deva Arhato (Shashi) a yogi, tantrica, and shaman. Since his childhood days, he was more interested in spiritual practices, particularly Hatha yoga, Vedas, Upanishads, then academic studies. In 2006, he started Mystic School which is renamed as Nirvana Yoga Shala where under his spiritual guidance the center offers Ashtanga, Hatha, Tantra yoga teacher training courses, regular classes of Ashtanga, Hatha, pranayama, meditations, Reiki and Munay Ki healing, singing bowls healing, past life regression sessions, and training.

Mother of a two-year-old daughter, the path of Yoga for Shilpa was not a smooth terrain. Born in a poor family, her father being a Tuk Tuk driver at outskirt of Mysore. She studied Iyengar yoga, Hatha yoga, and Ashtanga yoga at various school around Mysore and teaching school kids in a few educational institutions. She completed yoga teacher training from Vivekananda Yoga center Mysore and is Diploma in yoga therapy from Indian school of yoga, Bengaluru. She also completed the 500-Hour Yoga Alliance USA certification at Nirvana Yoga Shala.