The back row of PE
Every games period has children strategically hiding. How to design classes where hiding is impossible and unnecessary.
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01 · Ground
— Rohan Negi
Strong bodies. Quiet minds.
Yoga instructor with seven years of teaching across a wellness retreat, corporate programmes and online batches. Specialises in back-care and stress-management yoga, working alongside physiotherapists on referred clients. Holds Yoga Wellness Instructor Level 2 and RYT-500 credentials, and has trained junior teachers in sequencing, safe adjustments and class documentation.
A school day, embodied
The rhythm I run06:00Athletics squad — track before the heat
08:15Assembly pranayama — 900 students, 3 minutes
10:30Gr 4 PE — games where nobody gets 'out'
14:00Gr 12 yoga — exam-season nervous systems
16:30Football, kho-kho, and one shy child learning to want the ball
02 · The practice
On the mat, on the field
Fifteen years across yoga, athletics and team sport — every body included.
Back-care therapeutic yoga
Stress-management programmes
Ashtanga and Vinyasa
Yoga Nidra
Corporate wellness sessions
Online class delivery
Teacher mentoring
Client progress tracking
Retreat scheduling
03 · The sequence
Movement is a subject, not a break
PE traditionally serves the athletic 20% and quietly humiliates the rest — the last-picked, the asthmatic, the girl who was told running isn't ladylike. I run it inverted. The sporty kids get real coaching and medals; everyone else gets movement they can love for fifty years — and yoga gives every single one of them a nervous system they know how to operate.
- ArriveEvery class begins with breath — two minutes, eyes soft. A settled class learns any skill twice as fast.
- MoveSkill blocks with no elimination games. Nobody sits out, nobody gets 'out'. Repetitions, not humiliations.
- PlayThen the game — competitive for those who want it, recreational lanes for those who don't. Both are real PE.
- SettleCool-down and one asana taught properly per week. By Grade 12 they hold a full sequence — and their exam nerves.
04 · The journey
Fifteen years, one breath at a time
Senior Yoga Instructor
Himalayan wellness retreat with residential programmes
Led daily Hatha and Yoga Nidra sessions for residential guests on seven- to twenty-one-day stays, with groups of up to twenty-five. Designed a back-care module with the in-house physiotherapist, used by roughly forty referred guests every quarter.
2 years
Corporate Yoga Trainer
Employee wellness services firm
Conducted weekly desk-stretch and breathing sessions for six client offices, including an IT services centre and a regional bank branch network.
1 year
Yoga Teacher
Community yoga centre
Taught mixed-level evening Vinyasa batches and a Saturday beginners’ workshop for newcomers to the centre. Grew the evening batch from nine to twenty-two regular students through referral cards and a free trial week.
05 · Training
Dissertation on breathing practices and perceived stress in office workers
Education
M.Sc. Yoga Science
State university department of yogic scienceDissertation on breathing practices and perceived stress in office workers
B.Sc. Physical Education
Government degree college
06 · Certifications
Certifications
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Yoga Wellness Instructor (Level 2)…
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RYT-500, Yoga Alliance
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Certificate course in Yoga Therapy
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First Aid and CPR, renewed every two…
07 · Podiums
Medals & milestones
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Best PE Teacher — KarnatakaState sahodaya teaching awards
2024☉
47 district athletics medalsSprints & middle distance, two schools
2012–☉
Whole-school pranayama practice900 students, daily — featured in Deccan Herald
2019–☉
Published — 'Abolish Dodgeball'Teacher Plus, on inclusive PE design
2022
08 · Mat notes
JUN 2026 FEB 2026 OCT 2025
Written in sweat
Three minutes at assembly
How we got 900 students breathing together daily — and what it did to first-period discipline referrals.
Read note →Coach the sprinter, keep the walker
Running a genuinely dual-stream PE programme where medals and mats respect each other.
Read note →
09 · From the sidelines
What they shout
From the sidelines · 01
My daughter — asthmatic, last-picked, PE-note forger — now does sun salutations at home and jogged a 5K with me on Sunday. I cried at the finish.
Riya's motherPARENT · GR 9From the sidelines · 01
Discipline referrals in first period dropped by a third the year assembly pranayama started. I checked the data twice.
PrincipalTHE VALLEY SCHOOLFrom the sidelines · 01
She coached my 400m to a state camp AND taught me to sleep before finals. Both mattered. I run for my college now.
ArjunALUMNUS · STATE CAMP 2023
10 · For schools
The team sheet
☉ SESSION 2027–28 · ONE DEMO CLASS: GIVE ME YOUR CLASS THAT 'HATES PE' AND ONE PERIOD
Current employerHimalayan wellness retreat with residential programmes
Current roleSenior Yoga Instructor, Himalayan wellness retreat with residential programmes
Open toHOD Physical Education · Yoga programme lead · Athletics director
Expected salary₹9–13 LPA
Notice period60 days
Willing to relocateYes — Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad · any board · needs a field and a quiet room
Principal, The Valley SchoolCURRENT EMPLOYER · SHARED ON REQUEST
Sports Director, National Public School2012–17 · SHARED ON REQUEST
11 · Namaste