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Isha Hatha yoga Teacher and Co-founder of 'Nischala Classical yoga',  Praveen Anna takes us on a journey through his life!   0:00​ – Intro  0:40​ – Childhood and schooling in Kerala - Fewer studies and more cultural activities till 10th grade.  05:33​ – Pre-degree in Udupi, Karnataka - new place, a new language, and new people.   10:37​ – College days – Royal mech, Ragging, “Fun Activities”, Father’s motorcycle, and Maruti Omni  20:11​ – The First job – working endless shifts, sleeping in a factory with temperature up to 800 degrees.   22:42​ – Humbling Bangalore adventure – no job for 6 months, starvation and finding the first job.   24:08​ – Job in the automotive industry – mastered the skill of relationship management.  25:37​ – 10-year Work-experience with Toyota -1st engineer in the core team for ‘Etios’.  29:04​ – Marriage at 27 – proposing the childhood sweetheart on email and convincing parents.  33:12​ – Life after marriage – adventures with wife to places known and unknown in ‘Cielo Daewoo’   34:11​ – Little daughter brought foreign travel experiences.  35:00​ – Japan project – learning Japanese, cleanliness, people, and practical application of ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’  39:02​ – Japanese expedition and the once-in-a-lifetime experience of getting lost in Mt. Fuji.  42:01​ – The existential dread of 2014 – “who am I, why are people like this and am I getting fatter?”  46:22​ – Waist size went from 32” to 38” and started noticing a change in emotional responses.  47:35​ – Started searching answers for physical transformation.  48:24​ – Finding answers in scriptures and noticing the reference of Yoga  49:32​ – Baba Ramdev and Yoga for weight loss 50:05​ - Started feeling that there should be more to yoga than just the physical aspects of it.  50:22​ – Noticing an absence of culture and basic discipline in the ways of the younger generation. 51:42​ – Stumbling upon Sadhguru, “the bearded man”, on YouTube. Binge watched for 6 months.  53:11​ – Inner Engineering experience.