Our FITyogini Mandeep Kaur Sandhu! We, at FITrebel, take immense pleasure to welcome Mandeep Kaur Sandhu as a co-author and Yoga consultant! Her articles will be a regular feature in our Yoga section!
Our FITyogini Mandeep Kaur Sandhu!
Mandeep Kaur Sandhu is one of the few women who have attained popularity outside the periphery of not only their home but also their country. Her caliber and strength has been recognized and appreciated worldwide. Mandeep Kaur Sandhu, is the founder and Instructor at Mandeep Hot Yoga. I have had the pleasure of knowing her since a couple of decades, her whole family has been my patient since long.
Mandeep Kaur Sandhu- Phoenix Bird Rising
Mandeep Kaur Sandhu is an acclaimed Teacher from The Bikram Yoga College of India – USA. She has trained under the maestro Bikram Choudhury, a pioneer in Hot Yoga all over the world. Post her training she has been an Instructor in Bikram’s Yoga Centre – Mumbai before she decided to take the initiative in developing her own series for the benefits of Yoga students in India and all over the world. Like a phoenix bird that rebirths from it’s own ashes, she has risen against all odds to make a life she so much deserves!
Early Years
Born in India – Haryana in 1984, Mandeep Kaur once struggled through school. But she still had an inner craving to discover her purpose in life, and sought knowledge in different ways. After engaging in an intense 10 year practice in yoga, Mandeep Kaur came to the realization that her energy—and all humans’ energy—is one with the energy of the entire universe. She also concluded that humans can either heal or destroy Earth based on how they harness the power of their yoga. Those realizations have been the inspiration for Mandeep Hot Yoga.
Mandeep Kaur, is striving to share her vision in new ways, and wishes to empower individuals to positively change themselves, and the world, through yoga.
Her Yoga Journey
Mandeep hails from a very small village of Yamuna Nagar District from Haryana.
Her father is a Retired Army Subedar from the Indian Civil Service, and her Mother is a retired Government School Teacher. She admits joyfully that being a teacher has always been one of her dreams!
And coincidently that’s how she landed up being a teacher, in Yoga. Since childhood, she indulged herself into Yoga and various other sports in school.
But her actual Yoga practice started once she joined her College.
While going through her education she decided to participate in Yoga’s competitive event independently. Her teachers and family were very proud of her seeing her winning Gold Medals for her College & Universities, and later leading that into National Competitions.
From there to becoming an Instructor and a Yoga Studio owner!
In her own words…
“I was very comfortable and happy with my life as a Yoga practitioner in my village when life took a u turn on me. I got married.”
“Thereafter life was not very kind to me, as I lost my husband within a year of my marriage, but not without having my most precious gift, and that’s my son Hargun, who came into my life like a saviour,my motivation and my reason to live.”
“Thereafter life was not very kind to me, as I lost my husband within a year of my marriage, but not without having my most precious gift, and that’s my son Hargun, who came into my life like a saviour,my motivation and my reason to live.”
“I was on my own again , and wanted to make use of my talent as a Yogini.
One fine day I left for USA to earn a degree in Bikram’s Hot Yoga, as this was a new technique which was gaining popularity all over the world. At that time Hot Yoga was a raging favourite in America, Canada, or Europe.. So I decided to learn it and bring it to India”
Unfortunately Mandeep had no means and resources to pay for the course, although the Yoga institute was run by Indians, and owned by Indians, they did not have any considerations for Indians.
Fueled with the desire to learn and bring it back into India, Mandeep took up a job, driving trucks in Canada/ USA.
“I used to wake up at 3am to drive trucks for my cousin, who owned the trucks!” she recalls!
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Hard work pays off!
In 2-3 years she managed to save enough for her fees to undergo the Teacher Training of Bikram Yoga Institute.
“Finally in Las Vegas I completed my Teacher Training along with about 400 foreigners, who came from US, Canada, Europe, Spain, Germany etc.” says Mandeep!
Her biggest hurdle there was communication, as English was not her native language, and she could barely speak or understand it. Nevertheless her colleagues were very understanding and supported her. Slowly but surely she grasped the language, but not without the accent.
“Thus I still speak English with an accent, so my students also sometimes tease me and call me ‘Spanish Gal”, she laughs.
“For me home is where heart is, and my son and family being in India, I ultimately went back to my country and set up my Hot Yoga Studio in the city of dreams Mumbai.”
“Also remember, I wamted to bring Bikram Hot Yoga to india in the first place?”
At FITrebel we ask Mandeep how her Hot Yoga is unique?
“Firstly, Yoga is soon going to be also categorised as a sport in India!
And it is not merely a practice, but ‘a way of life’.“
“It’s Mandeep Hot Yoga, not just Hot Yoga”, says it with a smile.
“It’s a 25 postures sequence selected and developed by me from various different forms of Yoga that I have learnt since my early days,til date. I believe that ‘we never stop learning’.”
“I have learnt various forms of Yoga viz. Hatha, Ashtangna, Vinaysa, Rhythymic Yoga and later Hot Yoga from an Indian Yoga Guru Bikram Chaudhry in the USA.”
“I developed my own series of postures, which are scientifically designed to take the practitioner through High Intensity Cardio to Low Intensity Cardio in a formulated order, which helps condition not only the heart, but also develops, strength, balance and fitness within.”
According to her each asana takes care of a different part in the body, and yet they all work together in synergy, contributing to the health of every other one, and extending its benefits.
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What do you think of FITrebel and your association with FITrebel?
“First of all let me congratulate you, Dr. Bhanu Abohari/FITrebel for doing such a superb job with your articles. I have read all of them and shared them with friends and family and they have always given me a positive feedback.
The clarity with which you put across your point of view is amazing. Also all of your suggestions are very much doable.”
“Your own comittment to fitness is amazing, I have seen your fitness journey. You are a role model for many, Doc!!”
” I think together we can do a great job of promoting yoga, fitness and health. My yoga experience and your writing skills can build a foundation from which many would be able to benefit. Really looking forward to working with you.”
Mandeep Kaur Sandhu is also The Head of The Department, Yogic Sciences at IIIMS.org, a sister concern of FITrebel.in where she trains individuals to be Mandeep Hot Yoga Teachers! IIIMS is recognised by the Govt of India and affliated to the I.A.O. USA
Our FITyogini Mandeep Kaur Sandhu
Our FITyogini Mandeep Kaur Sandhu
HER ACHIEVEMENTS: Only Indian “A – Level” Certified Judge 2021 by IYSF (International Yoga Sports Federation) of U.S.A. India – 7 TIMES Gold Winner – National Yoga Asana Championship Universities – 7 Times Gold Winner – Inter Universities Internationally – Trained under Bikram Yoga College of India and a certified Bikram Yoga Teacher after having completed Bikram Teacher Training course in Las Vegas. U.S.A. Doctorate in Alternative Medicine – Acclaimed and Certified Doctor from The Indian Board of Alternative Medicines in 2004, as a Naturopathic & Yoga Doctor. Gold Medalist in Air Rifle Shooting from Kurukshetra University of Haryana – India.
QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor of Arts from Kurukshetra University of Haryana – India. Master of Physical Education (M.P.ED) from Kurukshetra University of Haryana – India
Where To Find Mandeep?
Mandeep Hot Yoga Studio
Gazdhar Enclave, Plot- C, 5th Floor- 502
Opp. Veera Desai Road, Next to Fun Republic Mall
Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400058 India Contact No- 8928544909
At IIIMS.org Mandeep Hot Yoga Courses
Our FITyogini Mandeep Kaur Sandhu!
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