Our story
A practice carried forward since 1997.
Yoga Payammehr grew from a school founded in Tehran into a continuing space for practice, study, teacher education and the transmission of yoga across generations of students.
Read the storyThe beginning
A school shaped by continuity rather than a single course
Yoga Payammehr’s official Canadian Yoga Alliance school profile records the school as founded in Tehran in 1997. From that beginning, its identity developed around sustained practice and education rather than short-term instruction alone.
Across the years, the school’s documented teaching history has included physical practice, breath, meditation, yoga philosophy and teacher education — different dimensions held within a broader relationship to yoga as a living discipline.
That history continues today through teachers, ongoing courses, specialist learning pathways and a community of graduates whose practice has extended beyond the classroom.
A broad field of study
Practice, breath, philosophy and the art of teaching
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Asana & embodied practice
Developing a more attentive relationship with the body, movement, steadiness and the quality of practice.
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Pranayama & awareness
Breath and attention as integral dimensions of practice rather than additions to physical movement.
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Meditation & philosophy
Study extending beyond form into observation, self-inquiry, yogic philosophy and contemplative practice.
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Teacher education
Learning how practice becomes responsible teaching through knowledge, continuity, experience and care.
A teaching tradition
An approach that connects different dimensions of practice
Historical curriculum material associated with Yoga Payammehr documents study across areas including asana, pranayama, meditation, Yama and Niyama, yoga philosophy and teacher education. Some specialist areas have also formed part of the school’s educational history.
These references describe the breadth of Payammehr’s teaching heritage; they should not be read as a list of courses currently on offer. Today’s active programmes are presented separately through Yoga Payammehr’s current course channels.
Within this wider history, Cyclic Yoga has formed an important part of the school’s documented identity — a subject explored separately as part of Yoga Payammehr’s methodology and teaching heritage.
Continuity
A story still being written
Rather than assigning dates we cannot reliably document, this timeline keeps only the historical anchor that is clearly recorded and describes the stages that followed without inventing chronology.
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1997
Foundation in Tehran
Yoga Payammehr begins its documented institutional story in Tehran.
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Study
Practice expands into education
The school develops a broader educational framework connecting practice, breath, meditation, philosophy and sustained study.
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Teaching
From personal practice to teacher education
Training pathways support students in developing the knowledge and responsibility required to guide others.
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Today
Teachers, courses and a growing alumni community
Yoga Payammehr continues through live education, ongoing practice and graduates carrying their learning forward.
Institutional record
A history documented beyond our own website
Yoga Payammehr’s Canadian Yoga Alliance school profile provides an external record of the school and its published graduate roster. Because third-party records can change, the Canadian Yoga Alliance profile remains the authoritative source for its current listing.
Stay in conversation
The practice continues.So does the learning.
Explore Yoga Payammehr’s current courses, teachers and educational work — the next chapter of a story that began in Tehran in 1997.