My Yoga Journey
My Guru and the Journey of Yoga
From Yoga Practice to Health Education
My yoga journey began in 2010, with a simple purpose: to help people understand their bodies and use yoga as a practical tool for better health.
I started working with corporate professionals, helping them address lifestyle-related health concerns through yoga therapy, muscle and skeletal balancing practices, movement, breathing, and traditional yogic techniques.
This experience taught me that yoga is not only a practice for physical fitness. When understood correctly, it can become a valuable part of a healthy lifestyle.
Learning from My Guru
A major turning point in my journey came through the guidance of my revered Guru, well-wisher, friend, and mentor, Shri B. V. SubramanyamGaru.
While assisting him with “Yoga at Work,” a unique workplace health initiative sponsored by Bajaj Life Insurance, I had the opportunity to learn how simple yogic practices could be applied to everyday health challenges.
His clear and practical teaching of yoga asanas, pranayamas, meditation, and traditional health practices helped me understand how these methods could be integrated into modern lifestyles.
More importantly, I learned to look beyond symptoms and understand the connection between movement, posture, breathing, lifestyle, stress, nutrition, rest, and overall health.
Turning Ancient Knowledge into Practical Health
My hands-on experience helped me understand that people do not always need complicated solutions. Often, simple and consistent health practices, when correctly understood and practiced, can make a meaningful difference.
This became the foundation of my approach to yoga therapy: making traditional knowledge simple, practical, understandable, and relevant to modern life.
The principles I learned through my Guru’s research and guidance eventually became an important part of my work with individuals, students, and corporate communities.
Taking Yoga Beyond Borders
My experience with corporate wellness gave me the opportunity to share these health practices with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
I had the privilege of working with the international community in Singapore, including professionals around Changi Business Park, one of the major corporate hubs in the region.
This experience strengthened my belief that health is a universal language. Regardless of nationality, profession, age, or lifestyle, every person has the same fundamental need—to understand, protect, and care for their own body.
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to share yoga and health education with people from more than 60 countries, including university communities, international participants, expatriates, and corporate professionals.
From Yoga Therapy to SAIL Research
As my journey progressed, my understanding of health expanded beyond individual yoga practices.
Through the research and guidance of my Guru, I became deeply involved with the AYR-based SAIL approach—Structured Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle.
SAIL brings together traditional knowledge from Yoga and Ayurveda with practical principles of modern health understanding. It focuses on the importance of everyday habits such as movement, breathing, hydration, nutrition, sleep, stress management, nature connection, and preventive health practices.
This helped me see health not simply as the absence of disease, but as a daily responsibility and lifelong way of living.
What Is HEALTHISM?
One Health.One Humanity.One Future.
HEALTHISM™ is a global health movement and a science-backed lifestyle approach that places health at the heart of a better life and a better future.
It is based on a simple belief:
True wealth begins with good health.
Every person has the ability to make healthier choices and take greater responsibility for their well-being.
Rather than waiting for illness to occur, HEALTHISM™ focuses on health awareness, prevention, and positive action. It encourages people to care for their physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being through simple habits that can become part of everyday life.
The HEALTHISM Approach
Health is more than the absence of disease. It is having the energy, strength, flexibility, resilience, and confidence to live life fully.
HEALTHISM™ encourages healthy living through practical areas such as:
- Nutritious and balanced food
- Proper hydration
- Regular movement and exercise
- Yoga and breathing practices
- Quality sleep and rest
- Stress management
- Connection with nature
- Healthy daily routines
The aim is to make healthy living a lifelong habit rather than a temporary effort. Consistent healthy choices can support better quality of life and may help reduce the risk of many lifestyle-related health problems.
What Is SAIL Research?
SAIL (Structured Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle) is the result of 15 years of dedicated research by Shri B.V. SubramanyamGaru.
SAIL is inspired by the traditional lifestyles of Indian yogis and the timeless knowledge of Yoga and Ayurveda. It brings these traditional principles together with modern scientific understanding to create a practical approach to healthy living.
SAIL is a structured, preventive, and science-backed lifestyle approach that focuses on simple daily habits that support better health and well-being.
A key focus of SAIL is systemic inflammation, which is associated with many chronic and lifestyle-related health problems. The approach encourages healthy habits that may help support the body's natural balance, promote healthy ageing, and reduce the risk of lifestyle-related health problems.
The practices are designed to be simple, practical, sustainable, and easy to follow. They encourage people to take greater responsibility for their health and make positive choices every day.
SAIL and HEALTHISM™
SAIL Research forms the research foundation of HEALTHISM™, supporting its vision of promoting health awareness, prevention, and healthier living through practical lifestyle education.
How Does HEALTHISM™ SAIL Research Help You?
HEALTHISM™ SAIL Research provides simple, practical, and science-backed health knowledge to help you make better choices and take greater responsibility for your well-being.
What You Can Learn and Gain
Understand Yoga and Ayurveda: Learn the basic principles of Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda in simple language and discover how they can be applied in everyday life.
Build Healthy Daily Habits: Learn practical lifestyle habits that support physical fitness, flexibility, energy, mental well-being, and overall health.
Focus on Prevention: Understand how everyday choices can influence your health and learn habits that may help reduce the risk of lifestyle-related health problems and support healthy ageing.
Improve Your Quality of Life: Develop healthier routines that can help you feel more energetic, stronger, active, and productive.
Create a Positive Impact: Healthy choices can also influence your family, workplace, and community, helping create a healthier environment for everyone.
A Simple Message
HEALTHISM™ SAIL Research gives you the knowledge and practical tools to make healthier choices, build better habits, and enjoy a healthier, more active, and fulfilling life.
Our Vision
To create a world where prevention becomes the first choice, healthy living becomes part of everyday life, and everyone has access to the knowledge and practical tools needed to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
Our Mission
To educate, inspire, and empower individuals, families, educational institutions, workplaces, and communities to adopt simple, practical, and science-backed lifestyle practices that support lifelong health, encourage prevention, and improve quality of life.
One Health.One Humanity.One Future.
HEALTHISM is committed to building healthier individuals, stronger communities, and a healthier future for generations to come.
HEALTHISM’s Research Foundation
From Yoga Therapy to a Science-Based Health Approach
My journey through Yoga Therapy, research, and health education, guided by my Guru and shaped by years of working with people from different backgrounds, gradually led to the vision of HEALTHISM.
HEALTHISM is supported by SAIL (Structured Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle) Research, which brings together the traditional knowledge of Yoga, Ayurveda, and natural living with contemporary scientific understanding.
SAIL focuses on awareness, healthy action, and prevention, with particular attention to lifestyle practices that support the body’s natural balance and overall well-being.
Its principles are simple, practical, sustainable, and adaptable, covering essential areas such as movement, breathing, nutrition, hydration, sleep, stress management, and connection with nature.
The goal is simple:
Understand your body. Make better choices. Make health a way of life.
My journey continues through SAIL Research and HEALTHISM, with a commitment to make meaningful health knowledge simple and accessible for individuals, families, communities, students, and workplaces.
One Health.One Humanity.One Future.
Yoga gave me the path.My Guru gave me the knowledge.SAIL gave me the approach.HEALTHISM gave me the vision.
