We are Bassanti & Mira Pathak, two Indian-German sisters with decades of experience teaching yoga. As children, we were taught asanas, myths and yoga philosophy by our Indian father (who taught yoga on the side) and many old remotely living Indian gurus. This ancient wisdom and the latest scientific research informs all our classes.
Mira studied at Bonn, Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris, after which she gained over ten years’ office experience in various industries. Bassanti was educated at Bonn, Harvard and Clark. A former Fulbright scholar, banker, film producer and screenwriter, she knows the challenges that fast-paced and volatile industries can throw at you. So we decided to bring wellbeing to the corporate world, ‘making employees healthier and employers happier’.
Just one other company provided corporate yoga back then, but they seemed to teach workouts that put the label yoga on for effect. So Pathak Yoga was born! We were not just one of the first office yoga providers in London, but also the first company to provide chair yoga.
What do we do when we’re not in your office?
We are based in London, but operate globally with clients in the US, Germany, Malta and Cyprus. So you can contact us no matter where you are.
Bassanti also teaches in select gyms around London: you can find her at the #1 London Luxury Health Club Third Space (if you’re a member you can find her in Soho, Wimbledon and Islington) and the iconic Brockwell Lido (with affordable pay-as-you-go options: Timetable).
As a yoga and mindfulness expert with a deep understanding of neuroscience, Bassanti offers executive education, resilience training as well as speeches and talks on various topics around stress management.
Occasionally she still works as a scriptwriter and her yoga-related creative outpourings can be found in CBeebies’ children’s TV series Happy Tent Tales.