founder and head teacher
Ajay Bobade
Yogacharya Veda Chaitanya
Leads intensive study programs based on ancient Indian traditional sources and values
as an alternative to modern yoga trends
17 years
of Yoga and Ayurveda
in Czech republic
About life in India
Yogacharya Veda Chaitanya (Ajay L. Bobade, MA., MSc.) was born in the Indian state of Maharashtra into a traditionally established family of Brahmin pandits (priests and scholars). His mother’s father was an Ayurvedic physician, a prominent astrologer and Hindu priest, while his father became a sadhu (a holy man who renounced the worldly world) in his later years, and was an expert in yoga, tantra and Vedic philosophy. Ajay studied intensively from both of his ancestors since childhood and wanted to devote himself to Vedic philosophy as an adult.
Studying at university and in the ashram
After successfully completing his studies in computer technology at the university, he worked for some time in high positions in this field in the USA. However, the world of computer technology did not fulfill him for a long time. Therefore, he went to study Vedic philosophy at the ashram of the famous Hindu philosopher Swami Dayananda Saraswati in Coimbatore.
After studying at the ashram, he went to the Himalayas. There he lived for more than half a year in asceticism in the remote Tapovan (4500 m above sea level). Then he settled in the foothills, in the city of Rishikesh, and devoted himself to teaching Vedic philosophy and yoga at the famous Parmarth Niketan ashram and taught mainly at international courses for yoga teachers. Gradually, he began to move his teaching activities to Europe.
Since 2006, he has been living and teaching in the Czech Republic. In 2007, he founded his own teaching center, which was first in Hradec Králové and since 2021 in Hrobičany.
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