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Fashion
Padmashree was a fashion designer. She was good at it, and she liked it. But the work moved quickly, and it asked for output more than it asked for attention.
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PadmashreeC Jain
Co-founder · Yoga Instructor · Actress
Before yoga, Padmashree was a fashion designer. A class she joined to unwind became a training in Rishikesh, and a practice she has been teaching ever since.
- Founded
- Pragalbha Yoga, Bengaluru
- Trained
- Hatha & Vinyasa, Rishikesh
- Also
- Works in film
Founder
Yoga found me in a moment of possibility and transformed my life into a path of purpose.
Her story
How she got here.
None of it was planned. Each step just made the next one obvious.
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A class, by accident
She went to her first yoga class to unwind after work. That was the whole intention. It ended up being the thing that rearranged everything else.
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Rishikesh
She trained there in traditional Hatha and Vinyasa, and studied in the Himalayas with teachers who had given their lives to it. She had gone looking for rest and come back with a practice.
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Her own studio
Back in Bengaluru she opened Pragalbha Yoga in Sahakar Nagar — daily Hatha and Vinyasa, 100- and 200-hour teacher trainings, and an aerial yoga course. The retreats grew out of it.
Beyond the mat
A creative life, not a second one.
Padmashree acts and models alongside teaching — her work is listed on IMDb, BookMyShow, FilmiBeat and Paytm Movies. She has never treated the creative life and the practice as two different things. The same attention runs through both: notice what is actually in front of you, and do not decorate it.
Her philosophy
What she keeps coming back to.
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The body knows first
The body usually works something out before the mind catches up. She teaches yoga as listening, not as performance.
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Empty hours matter
The long open afternoons are deliberate. What you came for tends to arrive in the unscheduled parts of the day, not the timetabled ones.
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Quiet does the work
The moments people remember from a retreat are rarely the sessions. They are a slow meal, a walk, the light changing.
Her practice
What she teaches.
Hatha Yoga
Classical, grounding practice. The foundation of everything she teaches and designs.
Vinyasa Flow
Movement as breath made visible — dynamic, breath-led sequences that build heat and presence.
Teacher Training
100- and 200-hour programmes at the Sahakar Nagar studio, plus an Aerial Yoga TTC.
Retreat Curation
Designing days that feel spacious — sequencing rest, movement, food and quiet with care.
Meet her on retreat
We aren’t just teaching poses; we are creating space for the extraordinary to emerge within you.
Padmashree C Jain