world leaders and their love for yoga

Producer: Navneet Vyasan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an avid practitioner of yoga. He called it India's gift to the world.

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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru could perform complicated yoga poses like the Sirsasana.

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Indira Gandhi too, like her father, practiced yoga. She was trained by Dhirendra Brahmachari.

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Lal Bahadur Shastri, too, was an avid yoga practitioner and maintained a simple life.

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife is a Hatha Yoga instructor. Here he can be seen suspending himself by the edge of a table.

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Former British Prime Minister David Cameron loves going to Yoga retreats.

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