V. Nanammal

Born: 24 February 1920

Died: 26 October 2019

She was India’s oldest yoga teacher.
She trained one million students over 45 years and taught one hundred students daily.
Six hundred of her students have become yoga instructors around the world.
Her work was honoured with India’s National Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2016 and the country’s fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2018.
She started practising yoga when she was 8 years old.
According to Nanammal, her father knew martial arts and had taught her Yoga.
She continued practising yoga throughout her life.
In the year 1972 she established “Ozone Yoga centre” in Coimbatore.
She and her family, follow the traditions passed over to the next generations.
The centre taught their traditional style of yoga, which focuses more on Pranayama (Breath-control).
The ‘Ozone Yoga school’ was established by her and since then, Nanammal and her family have taught yoga to over 100,000 people.