Tirthankar Nandy

Since 1982, when I was an infant, with the light of inspiration from my elder brother I have kept myself attached to this eternal way of bringing mental peace to my body under the mentorship of Yogarjuna Shree Manotosh Chowdhury, who runs his renowned institute named Swasthyasri in Kolkata. At the very onset of my association with this practice I participated in local, district and state level yoga championships. Being fascinated by the art I started dreaming of pursuing this practice as my career. But at the same time I was also accustomed with the fact that I will have to enhance my talent and interest. With this goal set in my mind I decided to imbibe in myself the art of Self Defence and therefore I took admission in a Karate school in 1986.Hereby my yoga and Karate training continued simultaneously, catalyzing my ability and merit in the arena of Martial Arts.

When I decided to pursue the same as my career, it was not a well known nor a well appreciated career. But today the scenario has changed. ” NOTHING ABIDES BY HARDWORK ” With this Guru mantra I decided to walk the paths of this challenging career and had won State level, National, International and World championships in my last twenty two years of practice. On the way the burning passion of yoga didn't loose it's lustre rather years of Yoga practice made my belief in yoga all the more stronger. Infact being a sportsman I feel that scientific practice of yoga and yoga massage helps any sportsperson to excel more and become more supple, energetic and enthuastic without loosing the sense of peace and importance of cool mind.. I myself incorporated yoga in my martial art training and achieved unprecedented results.

My hardwork was complimented when I got the opportunity to learn under Yogasree Dr. Prem Sundar Das and Dr. Dibyasundar Das who were the students of the world renowned Byamacharyya Yogindra Bishnu Charan Ghosh. They flavoured my interest and ability with the art of Yogapathy and Holistic healing. Facing different shades and unlevelled terrain of life , today my vision has finally got a steady and smooth path to go on; through the medium of my institute named, TirthaYoga Institute.

As mentioned earlier when I started my career it was not applaused or encouraged but today the changing scenario has made my dream all the more vast and determination all the more ironed. It's the rising interest of the Gen-Y in the ancient yoga therapy that has influenced me to share my experience with them and satisfy their needs and helping them in attaining the state of mental peace in this dynamic and developing life. To enhance my resolutions to their problems I have involved myself with a few research works .At present my subject of research is Occupational yoga on which I am working for the last five years. Through my twenty one years of yoga practice and five years of research work I found that yoga can do wonders to people in almost all the spheres of life. For every different games and occupations there can be a series of asanas which if practiced regularly can help one to reach the pinnacle of fitness.

So I hope our website will be helpful to people from various walks of life.