User:Kamaleshwaran Ketheeswaran

Kamaleshwaran Ketheeswaran a yogi and businessman from srilanka and founder of Now Yoga Begins communtiy ) First International Yogi From Srilankan Tamil Community

I was born in Vavuniya in the northern province of Sri Lanka in 1990. I moved with my family to Chennai, India, as a 6-month-old baby to escape the Civil War. We returned to Sri Lanka in 1995 but the Civil War erupted again in 1996 so we returned once more to India. I witnessed the war and death and this lead me to pursue a powerful urge to give back to humanity in a peaceful way.

I studied and worked as a software developer and financial analyst helping small businesses while gaining further knowledge to help with my future vision. In 2006, aged 16, I began to practice traditional Ashtanga yoga under Bhishmacharya Dr T.A. Krishna (who studied under Asana R.Andiappan). In 2008, at the age of 18, I became the youngest yoga teacher in South India and the first international accredited yogi in Sri Lanka’s Tamil community. Around this time I also began to study an undergraduate program in yoga and naturopathy. In 2009 I studied a bachelor’s degree in commerce, graduating in 2012. In 2014 I started my first school, K2 Yoga and taught many VIPs until 2016.

I returned to Sri Lanka in 2017 and began to teach in Colombo. I taught yoga to the private security company, M3Force. But the south was calling me and I wanted to spread my knowledge and spreading the message of peace. I wanted to challenge myself and bring my yogi knowledge to everyone. Armed with a strong vision and intention to help the humanity, I joined Exhale Yoga Retreats, a travelling yoga community. I studied Vinyasa yoga with Mathieu Boldron and Yin yoga with Annie Au. In 2019, grateful for all the experience and knowledge I have gained, I set out on my own to start Now Yoga Begins here in Mirissa where I am happy to teach and lead you in traditional and modern yoga.