FROM BHOGA TO YOGA

The early childhood provided a cultural backgroud of a devout hindu Brahmin family, that had The yoga journey of NKT.M.Jeyagopal started with practice of Asanas and Pranayama from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Chennai in 1988. For over four years he learnt the basics of Yoga from his yoga teacher Vishnu at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, known as the Sivananda Yoga popularly, developed by Swami Vishnudevananda.

From 1988 to 1992 for four years NKT.M.Jeyagopal practiced yoga for almost 6 hours every day, with the thirst to know everything that yoga had to offer. Four years of intense advanced asana pranayama practices, brought about a complete change in the physical and psychological structure and functions.

When he had mastered all the movements, inversions, contractions and stretches, NKT.M.Jeyagopal felt the need to intensify his practice and search, but in the physical domain there was nothing more he could have done. Flexibility, strength, endurance and agility were achieved, but there was a sense of dissatisfaction. There was nothing more that the yoga centre could teach NKT.M.Jeyagopal.

He had to either go for their teacher training program or take to sannyas. NKT.M.Jeyagopal was not inclined to become a teacher, because he was a seeker. He had heard about Kundalini Yoga, about Vedanta, Sri Vidya and many other streams of psychic and  spiritual traditions. He had read masters like Sivananda, Vivekananda,  Ramana, J.Krishnamurthy, Osho Rajneesh and Maha Periyava! Reading of the works made him know that there was lot more than just asanas. Yoga was unleashing a grand path to NKT.M.Jeyagopal!