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Jyoti on … CM Bhandari
1. You have been in Indian Foreign Service (IFS), an elite group of Indian diplomatic bureaucracy and an unexpected source of traditional arts of yoga, please address your inspiration and beginning of your interest in Yoga.
Ans. The first opportunity I got to learn Yoga was at the National Academy of Administration, Mussooree, Uttarakhand, India. I had joined the Indian Forest Service in March 1972 and after finishing my 2 years professional forestry training at the Indian Forest College, Dehra Dun, I was at the Academy in Mussoorie for the combined administrative training of 4 months duration. Yoga was one of several other options for physical training and I had opted for it. Two trainers from Shivanand Ashram, Rishikesh trained us for one hour daily in the morning for two months during April-May 1974. The entire focus was on physical fitness through Asans, Pranayam and Dhyan.
