Age 6: World’s youngest yoga teacher “a miracle”

Dateline Zero – Shruti can manage some of yoga’s most challenging positions. She can easily hold her entire body on the strength of her little arms and hang her legs right over her head backwards.

The Daily Mail article states that one of Shruti’s fans is a retired teacher, 90 year-old Swami Bhanu. “The best thing about Shruti,” Bhanu explains, “is she tries to provide an alternative position for the complicated ones that are difficult for an older person like me to do. She’s very patient.”

The article says that at just 6 years old, Shruti Pandey “is the youngest yoga trainer in the world. The bendy youngster has been teaching adults at an ashram, in northern India, for the last two years.”

At present, there are over 60 people who attend Pandey’s yoga session.

Her trainer is 67 year-old Hari Chetan. He set up the ashram 35 years ago. The article claims that “as soon as little Shruti became one of his students, as a tiny 4 year-old, he spotted her talents.”

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