From boardrooms to Yogashala

From boardrooms to Yogashala

October 2024
From  
Boardrooms to Yogashala
VS Prakash aka Yoga Sharan from  
Chennai is a rare blend of yogic expertise  and sharp business acumen. With more  than 30 years of corporate experience of which  22 years were spent with The Hindu Group  as a General Manager in the advertisement  department, Yoga Sharan found his true calling  in yoga. Eversince he has dedicated himself to  teaching and mentoring people, helping them  achieve their full potential.  
Yoga Sharan has been practising yoga for over 20  years under the aegis of his Guru Paramahamsa  Swami Niranjananda Saraswati who follows  the Bihar School of Yoga tradition. Yoga  Sharan credits his mastery over yoga to having  undergone intensive residential training in the  ashram environment.  
He says, “My experience in the corporate world  makes me appreciate and understand the high  levels of stress corporate employees go through.  This understanding made me work on modules  that help people manage stress, bring out their  potential in a holistic manner, and correct  physical and mental imbalances.” What he  offers comes under the umbrella of ‘Integrated  holistic yogic experience.’ 
Yoga Sharan graduated in economics and has  undergone extensive training in the workplaces  
  
that include Strategic Media Management in  MICA, Leadership training programme by  Shiv Khera, Bullet Proof Manager training,  and various other training programmes in sales  and marketing during his stint with The Yellow  pages, Times of India and The Hindu Group.  Yoga Sharan is a visiting faculty in the Tamil  Nadu Police Academy imparting yogic wisdom  to senior police personnel as well as cadets. He  has also worked with the police trainees at the  Avadi training camp, and customs officials in the  Chennai Custom House. 
He hosted a workshop titled ‘Discovering One’s  Inner Potential – Holistic experience’ for police  officials, senior staff of Numaligarh refinery  limited, Assam, and teachers of many NGOs. His  expertise on stress management through yoga  and meditation has been much sought after by  the CID Chennai division, and the Tamil Nadu  police department where more that a lakh of  police personnels have benefitted from his deep  insight and knowledge of yoga. 
- By Jamuna Rangachari