Swami Ramdev Biography – The Popular Yoga Teacher and a Political Activist

Swami Ramdev, a yoga master, popularized this art in India as well as abroad and he is also a political activist. He is propagating yoga, particularly pranayama, healthy eating and living habits and ayurveda for holistic wellness through his TV aired yoga camps and classes.

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Swami Ramdev Biography - His Journey to Yoga Guru

Ram Krishna Yadav, the birth name of the Hindu Yogi Baba Ramdev, was born in Alipur village in Haryana. Swami Ramdev biography reveals his father is Ram Nivas Yadav and mother is Gulabo Devi. He started practicing yoga at a young age when he joined Arya Gurukula residential Hindu school to learn Sanskrit and yoga. Later, he renounced worldly life taking the title of ‘Swami’ under Acharya Baldev and studied ancient Indian scriptures in Haridwar. In the year 2003, Swami Ramdev - who had by then set up the Divya Yoga Mandir trust - started addressing audiences across the country on television. Many yoga camps and media interactions followed. He popularized pranayama and built his yoga and ayurveda empire through intensive interaction with the people. Swami Ramdev biography also tells that he has been involved in social movements like Bharat Swabhimaan and Jan Lokpal campaign.

Baba Ramdev Yoga - For All

Yoga has helped Baba Ramdev to overcome his own facial paralysis. Ramdev, who began with teaching yoga for free at Kalva gurukul in Haryana, has been influenced by Aurobindo Ghosh’s book- Yogic Sadhan. He extends free yoga training to the poor through Patanjali Yog Peeth. Six simple and basic pranayama or breathing exercises are central to the practice that Baba Ramdev Yoga teaches. Ramdev’s mission through his yoga camps, classes and Yog Sandesh- a journal being published in eleven languages is to revive the practice of yoga among Indians. Which is why, Baba Ramdev Yoga on principle rejects the popular myth that Pranayama is only for the master practitioners. Yoga is for all, he says, and helps the body combat ailments like diabetes and hypertension.

Baba Ramdev Medicines - Ayurvedic Remedies

Foraying into the arena of manufacturing of ayurvedic products and research on yoga, ayurveda has been the natural path for Baba Ramdev to take. Baba Ramdev medicines sell under the launch-pad, Patanjali Yoga Peeth trust based in Haridwar. The Trust has created facilities for researching, extracting and producing ayurvedic medicines and many other organic preparations. Patanjali Yog Peeth is manufacturing known ayurvedic preparations like Shilajeet, Chyawnprash and Medhavati and also new innovations. Medicines like Divya Mukta Vati for high BP, Medohar Vati for weight-loss are totally natural in their formula. Ayurvedic medicines apart, the trust is selling numerous products like hair oil, soaps, gels, face-packs, fruit and herbal extracts, multi-grain preparations and tonics.