The People Behind Tri-Bikram

Namaste! I’m Pawan Kandel, known affectionately as PK, and the founder and manager of Tri-Bikram Yoga Centre. After 10+ years of experience working in retreat centres, and having had a love for yoga since my early childhood, I decided to start Tri-Bikram Yoga Centre in 2018 with the aim of sharing my passion and positive energy with others. I live here with my family; my wife Sirjana, known as ‘Siru’, who loves to share her love for authentic Nepali cooking and dancing, and our little 8-year-old daughter Shiksha who loves to converse with and learn from guests and radiate her infectiously joyful attitude.

My ultimate goal is to be able to earn enough to be able to sponsor children’s schooling who parents cannot afford it in my hometown of Meghuli, Chitwan. This has been a lifelong dream of mine since being sponsored myself as a small child by a friend of the family in the US, Hemlal Kafle. I remember so vividly seeing the relief and joy on my parents’ faces when they knew my education would be sponsored, and it’s a feeling I would love to gift to someone else.