Yogi Ajay Rana is an Advance Level ERYT500“Authorized Yoga Alliance” Yoga Trainer, having received the yoga diploma of Yoga Siromani from Madurai University, India. & post graduate degree of “International Yoga Acharya”from Sivananda International Vedanta Center, Canada. Yogi Ajay Rana spent his life in many ashrams of Himalyas & Gurukals for the advancement of the Yoga practice. He got inspirations in Bhakti Yoga from the satsang(spiritual lecture) of Shri Hans Ji Maharaj & Satpal Ji Maharaj. He has also done the yoga Vedanta Course from Divine life Society, Riahikesh. He has also done Yoga Professional Course from Himalyan Siddha Academy from Latvia, Europe. Yogi Ajay Rana started his yoga journey in 2001 and learned astang yoga & shatkriyas from the ashram of Swami Ram Lal Ji Maharaj Hoshiarpur through his disciple Pawan Thakur. Yogi Ajay Rana started teaching yoga in Delhi, his home city, in 2002. He go got the chance to meet yoga guru BKS Iyengar and learned the Iyengar Yoga. Yogi Ajay Rana travels to Dubai, Latvia, Estonia, Spain, Sweden & Russia and many other countries to teach yoga since 2004. Yogi Ajay Rana’s teaching is inspired by the integration of strength in the Classical Yoga with the inner experience of spiritual discipline. He has received many national & International awards in Yoga & Social activities. Yogi Ajay Rana strongly believes that with disciplined yoga practice & belief in GOD one can open doors to self-realization. His quote “No Yoga, No Life”“Know Yoga, Know Life” is very popular in the world of Yoga.
Yogi Ajay Rana was born and brought up in a traditional Hindu Rajput family in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh later moved to Delhi. Since childhood, he had a deep impression of his parents practicing Bhakti Yoga. He used to visit temples & ashrams in Himachal (The Land of Gods), Rishikesh & Haridwar with his family and these spiritual journeys, seeing yogi sages standing in yogic postures on holy riverbanks, inspired him from an early age and sow a seed to pursue a yogic life. As he grew older, he started practicing yoga to lead a healthy and balanced life. He had an unquenchable thirst to learn more about spirituality & yoga and travelled on his own to ashrams in the North and South of India. He spent a lot of time in many ashrams leading a simple life and got enriched in Bhakti, Gyan, Raja and Karma yoga. During his travels he also comes across different masters from whom he learnt classical & modern yoga for physical and spiritual well-being. Since 2005 he engages in Svadhyaya and moved deeper into yoga practice. Yogi Ajay Rana believes that the classical yoga is the base of yoga but modern teachers have modified it as per their own convenience & converted it to many names to attract people. He wanted to teach the classical yoga in the same way thousands of years ago sages used to teach. He is the founder of Beyond Power Yoga and Having Ashram & Head Office in New Delhi, India. In the early of his professional carrier side by side he worked for many corporate companies in different posts. Last he worked for Brands Academy Pvt. Ltd. as a Director. Currently he is the president of Social Development Foundation NGO. This NGO is helping people in education, health, empowering, cleanliness and many other projects. He has organized the biggest marathon of India EDURUN for the cause of save girl child and Education for all. He is the active member of Mission Education started by the Manav Utthan Seva Samiti. He leads the Yoga Camps of this Smiti to facilitate the millions of people by yoga.