Louis Lim (Ramana)
Co- Founder & Teachers Trainer
Louis Lim, also known as Ramana, is an Embodied Yoga Facilitator and International Teacher Trainer, and the co-founder of Yoga Sadhana Malaysia. His yoga journey began in 2008 under the lifelong guidance of his Guru, Acharya Shri Parveen Nair. Over more than a decade of consistent, dedicated study, Louis’ understanding of yoga has been profoundly shaped by Parveen’s influence — shaping his approach to alignment as attunement, discipline as consistency with compassion, embodiment as curiosity in motion, and teaching as shared exploration. This long apprenticeship forms the backbone of Louis’ clarity, sensitivity, and precision as a teacher.
As a trained educator with a deep passion for Anatomy & Physiology, Louis has developed a distinctive way of teaching that makes complex anatomical concepts digestible, experiential, and engaging. Rather than approaching anatomy as a purely intellectual subject, he emphasizes felt experience, integrating Parveen’s embodied yoga methodology with myofascial awareness and biomechanics. Louis enables students to understand how the body truly moves, adapts, and heals.
Guided by the belief that true learning arises through experience, Louis’s teaching methodology blends play, theatre-inspired exercises, creative exploration, and joyful interaction, enriched by storytelling drawn from Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata, and the Bhagavad Gita. Through these timeless narratives, philosophical principles come alive in the body, allowing students to embody Vedic wisdom rather than merely study it intellectually. His classes invite curiosity and presence, transforming anatomy and philosophy from static theory into a living, breathing practice that students can feel, explore, and apply directly to movement, asana, and teaching.
Louis’ continued commitment to learning has led him to study with renowned teachers and movement pioneers such as Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Judith Hanson Lasater, Bernie Clark and Thomas Myers, deepening his understanding of different traditions of Yoga, Somatics, myofascial connectivity, and the body-mind relationship.
He also had the privilege of studying directly with the late Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar, and Prashant Iyengar at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India. In 2015, Louis was honoured by the Indian High Commission and AYUSH, witnessing the historic 1st International Yoga Day, inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, on 21 June in New Delhi.
After nearly two decades of devoted practice under his Guru Parveen Nair, Louis’s journey has cultivated not only strength, mobility, and refinement in asana, but also a steady, contemplative, and grounded mind. His deep spiritual inclination has drawn him to Advaita Vedanta, where he continues as an ardent student of non-duality, inspired by the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi. He further pursues advanced studies in Yoga, Ayurveda, Mantra, and Meditation with the American Institute of Vedic Studies, under the guidance of Pandit Vamadeva Shastri Vedacharya Dr. David Frawley.
“Understanding function, not memorising anatomy” lies at the heart of Louis’s Anatomy & Physiology teaching. For Louis, movement is not a mechanical formula, and meditation is not confined to theory. Both are heart-centred, embodied practices, expressed through the thinking body, sensing body, moving body, and emotional body.
