In the current week, a person known as Krishna Nayaka is in headlines. Krishna Nayaka who embarked on a 15,000 km padayatra from Mysuru to promote yoga awareness among the people, entered the temple town of Tirupati on Wednesday after covering Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

He has so far covered 2,000 km as a part of his walkathon and hopes to complete his mission in two years. The 29-year-old man walks 30 km a day with the constant aim of motivating people around on the benefits of yoga.

He was introduced to yoga by a sage who came from Himalayas for the treatment of his fractured collar bone at an Ayurveda Hospital in Mysuru way back in 2008.

He attended and practiced yoga for years to get his back pain and some physical disorders cured.

He was a member of the Mysore University cricket team and playing too much of it had caused him back pain during his student life. Healed due to the benefits of yoga, he wanted to promote it in a big way and hence embarked on a journey to account the same.

Earlier, the doctors had suggested him to go through a surgery for healing the back pain. But he didn't want to go with that alternative. Thereafter, he visited the same Ayurveda Hospital where he had met the sage. The doctors there told him that none other than yoga was the best medicine for this ailment. He also relegates that the common man has no understanding of yoga other than the thoughts that it is to do with just twisting the body. He says that he also had a similar perception in this regard unless he himself started practising yoga. He adds that Yoga and Yoga Asanas are different things.

Yoga also helps an individual attain a good physique, besides controlling emotions and subduing stress.

After learning Yoga Asanas, Krishna set up Krishnam Yoga Institute to teach yoga. More than thirty people coming from different walks of life are learning yoga in his institute. During his journey, Krishna visits educational institutions and educates students on the benefits of yoga. He wants to conclude his yatra in Mysuru after covering all the States in the country.

'Yoga does not transform the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.' - B.K.S. Iyengar.

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