SANMAY MUKHOPADHYAY,
the Yoga Guru at IDYA also known as Dr.Yogi is an X-CIO in Healthcare and a passionate practitioner of Yoga and Ayurveda. He is the author of several books of which The Yogic Warriors, and Fear of Hope are the latest.
Sanmay has attended various Yoga lineages like Iyenger, Vinyasa, Hatha Yoga, Bikram, and Patañjali Yoga for the last thirty years. He has attended courses in the USA as well as India. From childhood, Sanmay grew up in the Yogic culture and was initiated into Yoga using Bisthu Ghosh’s traditions. Though introduced to the therapeutic aspects of Yoga at a very early age, Sanmay eventually took up health/wellness and disease management, using Yoga for the last ten years. He has been teaching Yoga since 2000 and teaches in India and regularly in the USA, including major corporations like the County of Los Angeles. Sanmay studies and specializes in ancient scriptures to create the foundation for his Yogic journey.
Sanmay had launched a major Yoga based disease management App called “DrYogi.” Sanmay also works with Homeless people in the USA as well as differently abled people.
Sanmay, in collaboration with a network of therapists globally, has treated many people with pain, heart disease, asthma and lung diseases, cancer, autoimmune, arthritis, and IBS. He works with physicians and Yoga therapists and customizes Yoga sequences for individuals. He also takes classes to educate patients to become self-managed.
He is a full-time Yoga practitioner who held a Senior Executive position in a large firm in the USA. This experience was instrumental in designing corporate programs on Stress and Anxiety. His YouTube channel is appropriately called “The Techie Takie Yōgi.”