Hello Viewers,

This is 'Murtys' of Yogaprayaga greeting you. Yogaprayaga is a school for yoga located in a place called Adambakkam, a suburban area of Chennai, India being run by husband Major P.S.Murty and me, Dr.(Mrs.) Murty.

The name Prayaga originates from our Ancestors of the Triveni Sangam in Allahabad where 3 rivers unite in the heart of the Ganges and similarly we try to unify yogasana,meditation and thirdly a touch of spirituality added to this.

The school is run free of charge, throughout the 365 days of the year catering to all classes of people,irrespective of their age from 6 Years-60 Years and above,except aspiration to learn and involement in the whole process being the salient requirement.

We got the inspiration,Major Murty from Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh,India, and me from him. Though Major had been in the India Army, from his age of 17 years, he used to spend his holidays with Swamiji. He hasalways been this way in spite of his job. It is to be noted that he is also a teetotaler. He had been growing with Swamiji's blessings.

Beind a pediatrician and a medical teacher,I got interested in this subject. Had already an aptitude for philosphy and spiritual from childhood influenced by my guru Swami Vilakshananda. Being a professional it was amazing to understand the depth of patanjali yoga sastra,so wisely based on the juman anatomy and physiology, and relating to spirituality.

At this stage after our retirement, in the beginning of 1990, we planned to visit various institutions to understand different approaches and intricacies of Yoga in many centers of India.Having already known about the Rishikesh Foundation Yoga Center, we visited Yoga Institute of Mumbai, Nayyar dam in Kerala and Guha Ashram of Agra.

We started the school Yogaprayaga in July 1992 and we are luck to get the blessings of our beloved guru Swami Chidananda president of Divine Life Soiety, Rishikesh, India.

Apart from routine classes we have on all Sundays regular teaching program with some theory on the subject practically understood and also a question and answer session. We are very much deviated from very many routing institutions with no commercialization, as it is a free school.The only aim is to propagate yoga to the community in our own humble way. The orthodox teaching is modified to suit our environment and living conditions.

So there we are, tiny tots, running into the eighth decade major at the end and Dr.(Mrs.) Murty at the beginning of the same.