Sumit
Sumit is warm and smiling, raised in rural Nepal. Sumit was born into a family where bhakti yoga has always been an integral part of everyday life. His father is an accomplished harmonium player and bhajan singer, and spiritual music has been a part of Sumit's everyday life since childhood.
Sumit became interested in the more physical exercises of yoga at the age of 12 while living with his older brother in Janakpur. The practicing was a fun pastime for young Sumit, but it also had a more serious purpose: Nepal's health care system is not functional, and the farming family, struggling with even basic needs, had nothing extra. Social benefits are a utopia in Nepal. At first, Sumit and his brother thought that with the help of yoga they could stay healthy and well, and thus avoid the financial problems that illness would inevitably cause.
The spark for yoga remained and in 2014, Sumit and his brother found teacher training based on traditional Hatha yoga in Kathmandu. The intensive full-time training lasted 7 months. After his education, Sumit went to Dubai to teach.
2016 Sumit returned to his home country and continued teaching at Sooriya Wellness & Yoga Center, Kathmandu. Around the same time, he found himself a teacher, Vishal Mirsha, whose close personal teaching he studied until 2020. Such a close student-teacher relationship is not very common nowadays, although in the tradition of yoga, this is exactly the way yoga has been studied and passed on. Sumit has described this experience as having truly opened his eyes to the heart of yoga. At the same time, he found peace and a clear direction for his own practice and work as a teacher. And his guru, Shree Shivapuri Baba.
Later, Sumit has studied traditional hatha yoga and ashtanga philosophy e.g. at Vivekananda Yoga University in India and RYT 500 h studies at the Himalayan Yoga Academy in Kathmandu. In addition, he has studied traditional seven chakra singing bowl meditation in Kathmandu. He also names his elder brother Jitendra Singh as one of his important teachers.
Sumit as a teacher
As a teacher, Sumit is stable and precise, but at the same time gentle, equal and always thinking of the best of the student. Sumit's asana work is precise and focused. He especially loves to talk about the deeper aspects of yoga.
With his roots in Hindu culture, Sumit's cultural capital in the field of yoga is immense. He is constantly deepening his understanding through his own daily practice and his teachers. In the philosophical questions of yoga, he relies on the teachings of his own and his teacher's guru, i.e. Shivapuri Baba.
Sumit's teaching languages are English and Nepali. He also speaks and understands Finnish quite well.