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The passing of the baton

Desikachar is the son of the legendary yogi T. Krishnamacharya and this is a story about how he picked up yoga as a career. Growing up in the Krishnamacharya household was not easy. Krishnamacharya was a strict disciplinarian and a … Continue reading

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Yoga is bogus mumbo-jumbo!

Raj Shah is a chemical engineer by training, though he works in IT now. Growing up in Mumbai, India, he was a hard-nosed atheist. It was his unshakable belief that “religion was the opium of the masses.” He viewed religion … Continue reading

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Things are not going as expected!

Ketna Shah, a mother, a wife, and a professional had risked her financial security to follow her heart. “I had given up my accounting career and I had jumped into teaching yoga, yet things were not going the way I … Continue reading

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