{"id":995346,"date":"2022-02-17T22:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-yoga-instructor-at-age-9\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T22:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:16:43","slug":"boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-yoga-instructor-at-age-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-yoga-instructor-at-age-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy becomes world&#8217;s youngest yoga instructor at age 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-yoga-instructor-at-age-9.jpg\" title=\"Boy becomes world's youngest yoga instructor at age 9\" alt=\"Boy becomes world's youngest yoga instructor at age 9\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reyansh Surani was awarded a Guinness World Record as the world&#8217;s youngest certified yoga instructor after he received his teaching certificate at age 9 years, 220 days. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 17 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An Indian boy was awarded a Guinness World Record after becoming the globe&#8217;s youngest certified yoga instructor at age 9 years, 220 days.<\/p>\n<p>Reyansh Surani, who is from India and lives with his family in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, said he started practicing yoga with his parents when he was 4 years old.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>His journey to becoming an instructor began when he found out his parents were enrolling in the Anand Shekhar Yoga School&#8217;s 200-hour yoga teacher&#8217;s training course in Rishikesh, India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to join them and surprisingly found out I enjoy teaching, as well,&#8221; Surani told Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>Surani completed the course and became a certified yoga instructor, making him the world&#8217;s youngest certified yoga teacher, Guinness said.\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"K4bjQhawxVQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yoga class with the world&#039;s youngest yoga teacher\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4bjQhawxVQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier, I used to think yoga is only about physical posture and breathing, but it&#8217;s much more than that,&#8221; the young teacher said. &#8220;I learned alignment, anatomic philosophy and the nutritional facts of Ayurveda. It&#8217;s an intense course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surani now teaches yoga classes for school classmates, as well as private instruction outside of school.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy I can pass on my experience and knowledge to individuals around the world for their well-being,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reyansh Surani was awarded a Guinness World Record as the world&#8217;s youngest certified yoga instructor after he received his teaching certificate at age 9 years, 220 days. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records Feb. 17 (UPI) &#8212; An Indian boy was awarded a Guinness World Record after becoming the globe&#8217;s youngest certified yoga instructor at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}