Biography
 Yogacharya, Balachandran Chandrashekharan Nair (Balanji) was born on 24th December 1960 in Malacca, Malaysia. His father Chandrasekharan Nair and
mother Chandramathy were working in Malaysia at that time. He has one older brother Ramachandran and older sister Prabha Chandra. When
Balanji was five, the whole family came back to Kerala, India where they are originally from.
He was brought up and educated in Kerala. As a young boy he was interested in sports, art, music, dance but an average student. As a young boy his
ambition was to make artistic films. This interest made him to read a lot and search life more deeply.
In due course he passed school final and joined university. Around 14 -15 years time, on a weekend when he came back home from university, he
saw a graceful man sitting at home and talking to his father. They know each other before, he came to see his father and gave him the book
he had written about Yoga. His name was Yogacharya Govindan Nair. He was his first inspiration to Yoga. The next day he started practicing Yoga from his books.
This is the first programme he teach everybody. From that day onwards, he practiced Yoga everyday.
Later he passed his graduation in Commerce and tried to get an opening in the film world, nothing happened. Unemployed for a long time, he then
went to Kuwait. There he worked as an accountant and taught Yoga as a hobby. After one and half years, Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait and Balanji
has to return back to India. On the way back he decided not to take money from his parents.
Again unemployed, whenever some friends say they have some health problems, he advice them to practice Yoga. Then they ask him to teach and he
used to teach them not for money. After a while friends asked him to go and teach Yoga. This is the time when he started to teach Yoga as a profession.
With difficulties and financial strains, he started to teach in a tourist place. Slowly he started to become busy and made good money for 3 months.
After 3 months the season was over, so he left the place with the money he made and went to the city and started stock market business.
Around 6 months time from the small capital, he made good money and at the end lost all and then he stopped everything. He then went back
home, took his bag and went back to the tourist place and started teaching Yoga more seriously. Slowly it became clear to him, this the work
he wanted to do. He himself convinced that it is more than making a film. If you can transform a person, that is more valuable than giving a message to the society.
Later he became very successful there, then he used to get invitations all over the world.
He travelled the whole west Europe and in Germany. He was working in clinics with psychosomatic problems. The patients in the clinic, when they leave
the clinic, they said Yoga is the best. This enabled him to be employed in the clinic through which he got the permit to stay in Germany.
At the moment Balanji lives in Munich, having a successful private practice and he has a group in sweeden which he makes an education for 2 years
through which he meet the group for 12 times, each time 5½ days (Monday to Saturday afternoon).
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