Yoga College in China Attracts Thousands of Followers

China-India Yoga College is attracting thousands of followers

Women perform yoga in a glass suspension bridge as a way to attract tourists in Fuxishan, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China.

Yoga College China and India has become a big hit in China, attracting thousands of followers to their free classes in ancient physical and spiritual practice in India.

Yoga college in the country first opened last November in Kunming and is based in the Yunnan 

Minzu (Nationalities) University.

Lu Fang, Deputy Director of the university, said more than five dozen full-time students have completed yoga sessions and about 3,000 people took part in free yoga sessions offered by the school. "Several companies and government offices invited our teachers to teach yoga during celebrations such as International Women's Day", Mr. Lu told the state news agency Xinhua today.

Lu said that a growing number of people who wanted to learn yoga teacher from India. "They not only learn yoga positions, but also sutras, habits of philosophy, culture and cuisine from tutors in India."

Han Mingxue, who took lessons and became a master of Chinese yoga in college, said, "I only knew about the Iyengar style, but after hearing extensive with tutors from India, have come to a much deeper understanding yoga. "

Velusamy Subbulakshmi, who went to China from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India, has spent five months teaching yoga. She said it was not difficult to communicate with students the culture of Chinese yoga.

"The Chinese Taiji (shadowboxing) it has a great similarity with yoga," he said.