World’s Youngest Yoga Instructor: Six Years Old!
Children often amaze us with their capabilities, accomplishing feats not expected from adults. Shruti Pandey, at the tender age of six, has the distinction of being the youngest yoga instructor in the world!
Even more stupefying, the little girl has been teaching yoga to adults at an ashram (yoga retreat), in northern India, for the last two years!
“She’s a fast learner and a perfectionist. She grasps techniques quickly unlike kids her own age, who get bored with something as patience consuming as yoga. Within just six months of her training, she surprised everyone by doing the toughest positions with ease and perfection,” said her trainer, Hari Chetan who set up the retreat some thirty-five years ago.
Shruti begins her daily regimen at 5.30 am, dressed in white leggings and a red t-shirt, her many different students from all ages and walks of life encircling her. They include: businessmen, teachers, housewives and elderly pensioners.
“It feels good when people follow my instructions, I feel like a real teacher… I got interested in yoga after seeing my brother do it. I tried picking it up myself but it was too hard. So I asked my parents to send me to yoga classes,” says Shruti.
This type of talent runs in the family, Her older brother, Harsh Kumar, now 11-years-old, made the Limca Book of Records when he was five years old by learning all 84 yoga positions. He has never been a teacher, however, like his little sister.
Shruti has mastered some of yoga’s most challenging positions. She can hold her entire body on the strength of her little arms and hang her legs right over her head backwards.
Her students are in awe of her capabilities and many have stated that her class has changed their attitudes about coping with life and its many pressures.
Watch the video below depicting a very young child trying to master the art of yoga.
Kudos to you, Shruti. Kudos to you indeed!
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By MDeeDubroff on 18-01-2011
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