Annual Convention 2025
Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October, 2026
Above: Our Plenary Speaker: Saraswathi Vasudevan
Above: Our Convention venue: Eastwood Hall, Nottinghamshire, UK
Kriyā Yoga
aYs is delighted that Saraswathi, long-term student of TKV Desikachar and founder of Yoga Vahini in Chennai, will join us to talk about the practice of Kriyā Yoga from chapter 2 of the Yoga Sutra, and how she has come to understand its importance in bringing yoga into every aspect of our daily lives.
Saraswathi began her yoga and healing journey in 1990, studying under TKV Desikachar for over 17 years in the tradition of T Krishnamacharya. She holds two Master’s degrees (Nutrition and Psychology) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Yoga from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), Chennai. She has served as yoga teacher, therapist, consultant, trainer, and head of KYM’s Research department, continuing to bring scientific perspective to yoga therapy through her work with Yoga Vahini. As teacher, trainer, and therapist, she has touched thousands of lives in India and abroad, training serious yoga aspirants worldwide. Straddling tradition and modernity, she integrates yoga’s wisdom holistically for all seekers, wherever they are on their path.
In case you are unfamiliar with Saraswathi, read in the April 2026 aYs Newsletter an excerpt from an interview I did with her this February in Chennai (the full interview will appear in an upcoming aYs Journal). Saraswathi is an inspiring teacher and yoga practitioner, devoted to spreading the teachings of the yoga of Krishnamacharya and Desikachar (her long-time teacher) all around the globe. She travels far and wide, and also teaches online. If you want to learn more about her, please read about her work on the Yoga Vahini website here.
Kriyā Yoga
Our Annual Conventions are a wonderful opportunity for teachers and students alike to learn from a hugely experienced teacher.
We are also joined by many inspiring aYs teachers for a varied selection of workshops as well as delightful morning practices.
As well as the great learning on offer it is also the chance to meet with old friends and make new ones, it is always a warm and welcoming environment!
Recordings of the Plenary Sessions will be available if you are unable to attend.
Take a look at our full flier HERE.
To REGISTER YOUR PLACE, please click HERE
We are also pleased to announce that the Convention 2025 recordings are now ready. Four ‘Yoga for Transformation’ plenary sessions with Gary Kraftsow are available to purchase at £40. Please click HERE.
Past Conventions
2025 Gary Kraftsow Yoga For Tansformation
2024 R Sriram The Power of Sound to Connect (Joint Event with TYSP).
2023 Leslie Kaminoff from Yoga Anatomy. Desikachar’s Revolution: Yoga as Relationship – The Individual, The Breath.
2022 Nrithya Jagannathan from the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. Cikitsa – Yoga Therapy and its place in the teachings of TKV Desikachar
2021 Martyn Neal Roots and Branches: The Teachings of TKV Desikachar (Joint Event with TYSP).
2020 Dave Charlton and Ranju Roy Embodying the Yoga Sūtra.
2019 Ravi Shankar and Sheela Shankar Yoga and Music.
2018 François Lorin Yoga and Fear.
2017 Eleanor Dawson and Hilary Norman The Yoga Sūtra and Emotional Intelligence.
2016 Sylviane Gianina Embracing Change – Pariṇāma.
2015 Gill Lloyd The Heart of Yoga.
2014 Navtej Johar Yoga and Faith.
2013 Sriram Yoga and Emotion.
2012 Peter Hersnack Freedom in Relationship: The Path of Yoga.
2011 Chris Preist and Miranda Bevis The Viniyoga of Meditation.
2010 Dave Charlton and Ranju Roy, with Ruth Gilmore The ABC of Yoga: Awareness, Being, Seeing.
2009 Sheila Baker Inside Out – Outside Inside.
2008 Peter Hersnack Yoga Pradīpīkā: Special Light on Yoga.