Way ahead of PM Modi, it was Nehru who practiced yoga

June 21, 2017 10:23

When yoga used to be a personal commitment and not aggrandisation. India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru does the Sirsasana.

This is what what the former PM wrote on the asana.

"Among my exercises one please me particularly -- the shiorshasana, standing on the head with the palms of the hands, fingers interlocked, supporting the back of the head, elbows on the floor, body vertical, upside down. I suppose physically this exercise is very good; I liked it even more for its psychological effects on me. The slightly comic position increased my good humour and made me a little more tolerant of life's vagaries."

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