Join us at the International Yoga Festival 2025, from March 9-15 at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh—a sanctuary for healing, unity, and transformation on the sacred banks of the Ganga River in Rishikesh, India.
In the birthplace of yoga, where ancient sages, seers, and yogis sought enlightenment amidst the majestic Himalayas, this is your invitation to reconnect, recharge, and renew. Here, you’ll join a global family of seekers, co-creators, and conscious souls—all coming together to expand consciousness and bring healing to ourselves and our world.
Why Join Us?
✨ Uncover Your True Potential: Awaken the best version of yourself through transformative teachings, practices, and wisdom. Step into your power, ignite your inner light, and leave behind what no longer serves you.
🌍 Global Unity & Community: In a world often marked by stress, division and burnout, the importance of connection and community has never been more! Come and connect with like-minded, conscious yogis from every corner of the globe. Whether you’re on a path of personal transformation or searching for a new beginning, this is where friendships turn into lifelong connections.
🧘 Transform Your Body, Mind, and Spirit with World-Renowned Masters: Dive into teachings and practices led by the world’s top yoga teachers, wellness experts, and revered spiritual leaders. Reclaim your health, find deep clarity in your mind, open and health your heart, and reignite your connection to spirit. This is your chance to receive life-changing tools to live with energy, peace, and purpose every day.
The awe-inspiring beauty of the ashram, the clear, flowing Ganga, the majestic mountains, and the lush green forests will embrace and rejuvenate your entire being. Parmarth Niketan offers comfort, inspiration and upliftment for your body, mind and spirit as well as a deeper connection with the Divine. As you stay in the ashram, you will feel your soul bathing in the peace of sacred energies, including those that emanate from nature and those that linger from the timeless healing powers of saints, sages and holy ones. Parmarth Niketan contains within it the voice and the spirit of divine communion.
Rishikesh and Uttarakhand as the sacred birthplace of Yoga. Even after the tragic floods of 2013, when the state faced a huge blow to tourism, the state is standing strong, attracting and inspiring over some 600 participants from over 50 countries in the sacred practice of Yoga during the International Yoga Festival. The Himalayas are not only a place that is safe to travel, but stands strong and resilient in its sacred spiritual roots. The Ministry of Tourism’s beautiful slogan ‘Uttarakhand: Simply Heaven’ is given a deeper, more profound meaning, when through the practice of Yoga, IYF participants leave the sacred land of Devbhoomi, Swargashram with a tangible and exquisite experience of heaven within their own selves, bathing in the waters of their own peace, love and joy.
HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati (Pujya Swamiji) is the President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, one of the largest interfaith spiritual institutions in India, located on the banks of the National River Ganga, in the lap of the Himalayas. He is co-founder/co-chairman of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), which was launched at UNICEF headquarters as the world’s first initiative to bring together the leaders of all the world’s faiths to enable a water-secure future where all may access safe and healthy water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Pujya Swamiji is also Founder of Ganga Action Parivar, which is leading the way towards saving the Ganges River–one of the world’s most threatened rivers– which is depended on by over 500 million people. In addition, he is Founder of Divine Shakti Foundation and Interfaith Humanitarian Network, which are international, non-profit institutions dedicated to education, women’s upliftment, health care, rural development, relief services and other humanitarian projects. Pujya Swamiji’s religion is unity, and he is a leader in numerous international, interfaith summits and parliaments as well as guides and directs multifaceted and innovative solutions to address some of our world’s greatest challenges and threats to the environment
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, PhD is a spiritual leader, motivational speaker, author and social activist, based at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, Himalayas, India. She is President of Divine Shakti Foundation, bringing education and empowerment to women and children. She is Secretary-General of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, the first alliance of religious leaders for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Director of the world-famous International Yoga Festival. She has received numerous awards for her humanitarian work including the Lifetime Achievement Award by U.S. President Joe Biden. She is also the author of #1 bestselling memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation. Originally from Los Angeles, and a graduate of Stanford University, Sadhviji has lived at Parmarth Niketan for more than 26 years, where she gives spiritual discourses, satsang and meditation, leads myriad humanitarian programs and serves as a unique female voice of spiritual leadership throughout India and the world.
The International Yoga Festival is honoured to host some of the greatest Yoga Masters from the Eastern and Western lineages of Yoga. These individuals have influenced and defined Yoga in the 21st century. Come join us for a rare opportunity to learn and experience first hand from India’s leading spirtual leaders and take your Yoga practise further with some of the world’s most renowned teachers.
The renowned presenters at IYF bring not only the best of strength and flexibility through asana, but they also bring the depth and breadth of yogic philosophy and spiritual wisdom for true alignment of body, mind, heart, spirit and connection of the self to the Divine!
Parmarth Niketan is a true, spiritual haven, lying on the holy banks of Mother Ganga, in the lap of the lush Himalayas. It is also the largest ashram in Rishikesh. Parmarth Niketan provides its thousands of pilgrims – who come from all corners of the Earth – with a clean, pure and sacred atmosphere as well as abundant, beautiful gardens. With several hundred rooms, the facilities are a perfect blend of modern amenities and traditional, spiritual simplicity.
The International Yoga Festival is held at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. To learn more about Parmarth and how to get there,click here. Please note: IYF’s venue is ONLY at Parmarth Niketan, not at any other locations throughout Rishikesh.
There are currently no COVID protocols in place at the ashram.
Every year we have more than 70+ hours of yoga classes, taught by renowned teachers from around the world practicing multiple styles of Yoga including Kundalini Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Iyengar Yoga and Hatha Yoga. To see the full list of IYF 2025’s presenters, click here.
We’re sure you can appreciate that with the large number of teachers, classes and days that we need to coordinate, it isn’t always possible to confirm an exact date when a schedule will be released. However, it will be shortly before the Festival opens. Look for updates on website and social media.
List of presenters and schedule is subject to change at short notice.
While we encourage you to participate fully in the Festival, attendance is optional.
All registration options include meals, hot drinks, classes, lectures and performances. In an effort to keep our waste to a minimum, please bring a reusable water bottle. We have filtered water machines throughout the Ashram at no charge.
The first person to register from each country will become a country ambassador.
*Airfare & transfers
Before 1 Jan 2025, full refund less $75 processing fee.
After 1 Jan 2025, 50% refund until 8 Feb.
After 8 Feb, NO REFUNDS.
You can transfer your ticket to another person, at no charge, before February 8, 2025. Ticket transfers are not possible after this date. Transfer requests should be made in writing by the original purchaser to info@internationalyogafestival.com with full details of the person.
