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Born in India, in a family with long history of keeping the tradition of teaching Yoga in its pristine form, Avinash Mishra got inclined towards Yoga from a very early age. The enabling environment, with renowned devotees as grandparents, made him explore the spirituality through Yoga. With roots of yoga since childhood, he started practice yoga systematically under guidance of his elder brother Mr. Sanjay Mishra, himself a renowned Yoga master, since 1997. The elder Mishra molded the young seeker towards exploring not only the art of Yoga but also the science behind it. These teachings eventually would form the bedrock of Dr. Avinash Mishra’s developing a holistic concept for teaching Yoga as a mind-body harmony.

To hone his skills, and moreover for an in-depth understanding of yoga and its philosophy, mechanism and above all its modern conception, Dr. Mishra took a formal yoga instructor course in 2002 from Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA) Yoga University. He subsequently completed higher studies (Master's in Yoga Sciences) from the same University.

He has been participating in several international conferences on yoga and has presented many research papers on divergent topics, including on ‘Yoga for Children’. He is a member of several organizing committees for Yoga for School Children and Stress Management programs in corporate sectors. Amongst his many specializations, two most pronounced are his in-depth understanding of mechanism of Yoga for children; and Yoga for stress management. In addition, he specializes in yoga therapy and research aspects of yoga.

After exploring yoga In India for many years, he came to China to share the knowledge of yoga and enjoyed sharing for more than 5 years in different cities of Yangtze-delta area. Having the interest in cross cultural study and passion for tradition he has started his research as part of doctoral study on the inter-operability and complementariness of traditional Chinese health-care systems, like Tai Chi and Qigong with Yoga, from Shanghai Sport University under the guidance of Professor Yu Ding Hai.

Dr. Mishra has been teaching yoga now for more than 14 years and have taught more than 50,000 students from different part of the globe: countries including, India, China, Australia, US, Germany, Singapore, France, Japan, South Korea, and Russia etc. He is fluent in Hindi, English and Chinese language. He has been teaching more than 10 years in different parts of China including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu among others.

Dr. Mishra was main instructor in 1st and 2nd International Day of Yoga celebrations organized by Consulate General of India, Shanghai, As part of the celebrations, he travelled to nine cities in nine days across Eastern China Region, and imparted training as per the Yoga Protocol prepared by the Ayush ministry. he also played a great part in translation of the Protocol booklet into Chinese, which enabled Consulate as well as local administration to make the booklet widely available to Yoga enthusiasts in most part of China. His knowledge of Chinese language was also significant contributor as a medium of instruction.

He had a wide research experience and has participated in many yoga related workshops. He has participated in project entitled; “Efficacy of Yoga on Mirror Star tracing in School Children” at the department of Clinical Neuro-psychology, in April 2005. Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, Karnataka. India. Participated in the project entitled “Efficacy of three different Integrated Yoga Modules for School Children on Manual Dexterity” in April 2004 towards the partial fulfillment of M.Sc (Yogic Sciences), at Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, Karnataka. India. In addition, he acquired specialized skills, including Basic Neuropsychological tests for assessing children to evaluate the usefulness of yoga, and Research methodology including data organization & analysis using the statistical package SPSS (Version 10.0). Dr. Mishra good therapeutic skills and experience of treating various psychosomatic, autoimmune and immune-deficiency disorders like IHD, hypertension, diabetes mellitus (type II), bronchial asthma, allergies, skin aliments, cancer, arthritis, non-healing ulcers and wounds, gastro intestinal disorders, renal & menstrual diseases etc.

Dr. Mishra has mastery in preparing different individual and group courses to fulfill individual and group needs like yoga corporate, yoga for medical professionals, yoga for students, etc.

He has been a regular participant in many international conferences on yoga, including as a volunteer of the organizing committee in the conference on Golden jubilee conference of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India, Organized by National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA. Has presented a paper entitled; “ Yoga and Diet” in First National convention Science and tradition of food - India’s heritage of 5000 years (2004), organized by Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore and Academy of Sanskrit Research, Melkote, INDIA. Presented another paper “Efficacy of Three different Integrated Approach of Yoga Modules on School Children in Manual Dexterity” in Fourteenth International Conference on Frontiers of Yoga Research and Applications (2003) organized by Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA. Different Seminars hold by Shanghai University of Sport between 2011 to 2016. He was a key team person of management team and experts holding 1st Asian Yoga Therapy Conference, in Shanghai in 2016. Presented applications of yoga in conferences held in different part of china like Beijing, Dalian and Shenyang.