A members' circle · Navi Mumbai

yujkalpa

yuj · kal · p(a) the final a stays silent sanskrit

A circle, not a class. Step in, and stay a while. Transform within. Heal beyond.

The daily practice
The Gathering
The Masters
The farm retreats
17 teachers vetted 1,247 students in the network 8 neighbourhoods covered 0% commission, ever
i etymology
yuj युज्
to yoke. to bind. to draw two things into one. the root from which the word yoga first drew breath.
kalpa कल्प
an age. an aeon. a span of time so wide it holds a life. and, more quietly: a vow that lasts as long as you choose to keep it.

Together: a long, devoted union. Not a thing you do, but a way of life.

ii the four pillars

Inside the circle.

Four anchors across the year. Steady enough to build a practice on. Open enough to keep it alive.

i.

The daily practice.

A class each day, with our teachers and a circle that turns. Asana, pranayama, the long sit. The same room. The same hour. Where the quiet work gets done.

Daily · Vashi, Sector 17
ii.

The Gathering.

Once a week the circle widens. Sound healing one evening, breath the next. A therapy for the knot you cannot name, a workshop for the question you keep asking. Whatever the season brings, we make room.

Weekly · and whenever something rare arrives
iii.

The Masters.

Every fortnight, a teaching on how to live. Not a set of rules, but a way of seeing: how to carry the practice off the mat and into an ordinary day. We return to it, and grow.

Fortnightly · the circle stays after
iv.

The farm retreats.

Some seasons, three nights at Roha. A hall of earth, a garden that feeds you, a mud bath under neem, silences long enough to hear yourself again. These are the days people carry home.

Seasonal · three nights at the farm
iii the founders

Anchored by three.

Rekha, Rakesh, and Anuja built Yujkalpa from a decade of quiet introductions: a circle, a farm, and a name for the work they were already doing.

Anuja

Anuja Kulkarni

Certified by the Ministry of Ayush Yoga Certification Board, and fluent across Hatha, Vinyasa, Iyengar, and the older traditional flow. A PhD in the making. She takes a problem apart with her own hands before she hands it to anyone. Good is never quite good enough. She raises the bar.

Rakesh

Rakesh Patil

Rakesh came up through the army and brought the habit with him: early mornings, steady drills, a body that does what it is told. He teaches at the advanced edge, techniques that ask for real fitness, strength and breath under load. He sounds the post.

Rekha

Rekha Ubale

For twenty years Rekha has taught yoga in Navi Mumbai: Iyengar-trained, Vipassana-sitting, naturopathy-reading. She matched teachers and students by hand long before there was a directory. She holds the circle.

Also on the circle

Chaitra creative lead

The eye behind the circle. Chaitra holds the photographs, the feed, the colour and light of every gathering, the small things that decide how a place feels the moment you walk in. She gives it its glow.

iv the place · roha, raigad

The farm, two hours out.

· fourteen acres of quiet.
· a kitchen that grows what it cooks.
· a meditation hall built of earth.
· a mud bath under neem.
· a sky you forgot existed.
100km
Vashi to Roha, two hours through the Western Ghats.
14 acres
Orchards, paddy, a kitchen garden, a hall, a pond.
14 beds
Small enough to know everyone by the second morning.
v voices

In their words.

The repetition in daily practice did what years of hopping between studios never could. I stopped performing. I started staying.

Priya · Vashi

A sound healing night at The Gathering left me quieter than any retreat I had paid three times more for. I still think about the bowl that found my sternum.

Arjun · Belapur

The Masters sessions are not philosophy lectures. They are how you live on a Tuesday when nothing is wrong and everything feels thin.

Meera · Nerul

Three nights at the farm in monsoon. Mud under neem, rain on the hall roof, strangers who felt like old friends by the second morning.

membership

By application, by intention.

We read every note ourselves, and answer within three days. The circle stays small on purpose.

Open

The Member.

₹1,800 / month
or ₹19,800 ₹15,000 a year.
What lives inside
  • The daily practice, every day.
  • The Gathering, every week.
  • The Masters, every fortnight.
When you wish

Farm days, retreats, and 1:1 sessions, at a member's rate.

Apply for membership
Founding · 20 seats

The Founding Circle.

₹15,000 / month
The founder's rate, held for as long as you stay.
7 of 20 seats taken
Everything, and then some
  • Everything in The Member.
  • Every seasonal retreat, included.
  • A monthly 1:1 with a founder.
  • An open door to the farm on quiet weekends.
Apply for the founding circle