Testimonials

Payal Ramchandani

Kuchipudi Dancer , UK

I started training with Soumya during the pandemic and ever since there has been no looking back. Soumya’s approach to every student is unique and that stems from an astute understanding of the body owing to her experience as a teacher and as a lifelong student of yoga.

She has not only brought about a great deal of body awareness in me but has also helped me explore new horizons while enabling me to let go off my fear and apprehensions. My body feels different and stronger since having started practice with her and I definitely feel more confident as a practitioner and a disciple of yoga with Soumya as my teacher.

Raj Soni

IT Professional, Boston

Myself Raj Soni and an IT Professional. I live with Ankylosing Spondylitis which is autoimmune disease and type of arthritis that causes pain and stiffness in the spine, and there is no cure. After spending lot of time and money here and there, I realized only Yoga and Stretching can help me to survive with this. I started with few yoga types. Finally, The Iyengar practice fits my body and needs better than any others I’ve studied.

My journey started of studying Iyengar Yoga 2013 and met with Soumya in 2018.

Soumya is an excellent teacher and having both theoretical & practical knowledge about Yoga as Subject make her Subject matter expert.

She is thoroughly grounded in technique, communicates clearly, firmly, and with humor, and explains the importance of the spiritual aspects without preaching.

With infectious joy and precision, Soumya both demonstrates and explains to us, how step by step we can understand our bodies, and learn how to create space between the segments of the spine and other joints and how to build solid core strength. Then gradually many yoga asanas become easy because they make total sense.

Soumya has incredible knowledge of Iyengar Yoga and is always learning and bringing new information to share with her classes. She challenges us to do our best while keeping in mind that it is our practice, and we have to adjust our practice based on how our bodies are feeling on a particular day. She is so in tune with each individual and their needs for modifications.

Soumya exudes warmth and compassion, and she teaches from the heart.

I’m totally committed to continuing to learn from her.

Krishna Sharma

Home maker, Bareilly (U.P.)

Myself Krishna Sharma. My Yogic journey has begun in 2012 and I met Soumya in 2019.It has been such a wonderful experience for me to learn yoga from her .With her classes I feel more confident and mindful in my practice ,in my understanding of poses .I appreciate her understanding of yoga which is not only for physical health but also for mental, emotional and spiritual well-being…The way she explains and notices each and every student on virtual platform is commendable. I would surely like to continue the classes.

Mohini

Entrepreneur, New Delhi

I am Mohini from Delhi , an artist by profession , in touch with Samatra for last 4 years . The journey has been incredibly beautiful and spiritual.
I’m glad I met Soumya at that point of time when I was reaching menopausal phase of my life – with lots of gynae problems affecting my physical and mental health . Yoga didn’t help like magic at once but within 5-6 months I saw amazing changes in body and my mind . And Soumya – she is an amazing teacher with too much patience for a difficult student like me , made yoga a part of my life . Really can’t thank her enough!!

Neelaxi

Director of Inovatrix wireless limited , Delhi

Soumya is a wonderful healer. She is more than just a yoga teacher, she imparts wisdom and encouragement as part of each class. She is helping me heal from an old knee pain and shoulder injury while becoming stronger and more flexible. I highly recommend her yoga classes. “I feel more confident and mindful in my practice. The quality of the teaching is excellent, and simple advice and techniques taught in class greatly helped my understanding of some poses

Aditi Aggarwal Sarna

B.Tech -IT, M.A- Kathak , M.A.- Yoga

Currently working from home as a teacher partner for online platforms Cuemath for Math and Planet Spark for Public speaking courses. I am based out of Delhi.

I am a follower of yoga since I was 14 years old and have always been in search of expanding my horizon of knowledge in this aspect. I came across Soumya ma’m while looking to learning more. She gave me a new understanding of how to work on different angles and use various techniques to understand my body better. I am continuing my journey with her since 2019 and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

She also helped me recover from intense back ache incurred after my pregnancies and made me feel stronger physically and mentally day after another. Thanks for being a wonderful mentor.

Mridula Gupta

Chartered Accountant, Delhi

I have known Soumya since 5-6 years when we were students of Yog under Neeru Ma’am. She was the most passionate, dedicated and focused student amongst us all. We would all copy her notes as she made the best notes! No wonder she mastered Yog so quickly and became an equally passionate, dedicated and focused teacher.

I have been her student since 1.5 years and find her to be a very disciplined but very motivating and encouraging teacher. She understands all the issues related to her students and addresses them all during her classes.

Her Yog sequences are very intelligent and balanced. We keep learning new and different things in each of her class. She is one of the best teachers I have ever met. God bless her!

Shreya Handa

Architect, Jaipur

I am Shreya and I am a practicing Architect. From a young age I had been facing issues with breathing and after consultation with multiple doctors and modes of medicine, I got to know that I have chronic bronchitis which affects me every time season changes.

I had been advised by many to do yoga and Pranayam and how it will help my breathing but no teacher could teach me the correct way forward.
I did start practicing yoga from 2016 but my breathing didn’t get better. I often thought that nothing could make this okay.

In 2021, I started doing Iyengar yoga with Soumya didi and she taught me basics and made me understand how our body and mind works. I had never heard of Iyengar yoga before and with every class, I continued to learn and discovered things about my body that help me.

With a regular sitting job or standing for hours, I can now manage better with a few daily poses.

What I love most about the classes is that no matter how you are feeling before, you always feel refreshed, joyful and energized after. She is a wonderful teacher and always keeps sharing new tips and knowledge, she’s always available and makes sure that we are actually doing things right. She’s also strict with practice which helps me to stay on track.

She is accommodating, friendly and very committed.

I can say that because of this practice and my amazing teacher, I love doing Yoga and will continue to do so for life.

Dr. Swati Singh

M.B.B.S., M.D, Ludhiana

I came across Soumya during the lockdown. Her class helped me deal with the physical stress of early age essential Hypertension, cervical spondylitis, lower back issues which started after two C- sections & a plethora of other health issues.

As a teacher Soumya is par excellence & nudges her students to our own practice in between classes so as we imbibe Iyengar yoga during as well as after the class. Her own practice & prowess shows in her class.This yoga education is helping me understand my body & my mind better & better.

M. R. BinuChandran

Director at Corporate Sector, Hydrabad

“Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.” And true to above quote Ms Soumya is from BS Iyengar school of Yoga and keep the basics right and as an excellent Yoga teacher she understand the core of each of her students and customise her program or say teaching accordingly which suits as per ones age , body, gender , ailment, disability if any. I as a battle casualty person with bullet injuries was really sceptical in the threshold but latter on she made be comfortable with ease of transition of converting my stiff body into flexible one within six months. Soumya ji has excellent understanding of medical yoga and especially pre-natal and post-natal issues thus yoga 🧘‍♀️ exercises accordingly. I recommend Ms Soumya for any student irrespective of age, gender or nationality as it is dream come true to have such an excellent teacher as our guru.

Sachin Khanna

Businessman, Delhi

I m Sachin Khanna, a businessman by profession based in Delhi. I got severely affected by corona virus bcos of which serious breathing issues and other multiple health issues occurred in my body. No medicine was benefiting me from these problems. At that time I came across one of my old friend Soumya who is a yoga practitioner/ teacher and teaches Iyengar yoga. She adviced me to join the yoga classes and assured that it will of great help with my breathing and other health issues .So i joined her Iyengar yoga classes in 2021 and in 2 months time it actually brought me to a situation where I was able to manage without medicines who were my support system from months to breathe and manage my health problems occured after corona virus. Soumya is a gr8 instructer and works on ur body in a very appropriate way as per the need and is very clear with her aasans poses postures n instructions while taking the yoga class. And also keep sharing her wisdom between the classes.After taking a session from her i alws feel rejuvinated n refreshed as she works on every part of our body according to our capacity to work on it. Now it been 2 yrs now that I m regular with her classes and it has helped me immensely with my mind n health to stay active n fit. She is a very committed teacher with gr8 sense of aasans. I will surely continue with her classes and keep grabbing her wisdom which she share selflessly with us.

TESTIMONIALS