Imagine spending 40 hours doing sun salutations non-stop. Suddenly yoga doesn’t seem so relaxing, does it?
Over the weekend, yoga master, Yogaraj CP (yep, he actually has the word “yoga” in his name) broke a Guinness World Record by continuously executing more than 1,500 ‘asanas’ in 40 hours at his Tsim Sha Tsui studio Prana Yogam.
The 29-year-old Indian-born yoga instructor began his quest to break the ‘Longest Yoga Marathon’ by a male on Friday and achieved it on Sunday afternoon. #WhatAWeekend!
Yogaraj started yoga at age five and began teaching by the age of 12.
In 2003, he also claimed a record by holding a headstand for two hours and 40 minutes in Hong Kong, and in 2011 he wowed the world by completing 23 postures while balancing on the seat of a moving motorbike back in India.
Yogaraj dedicated his latest monumental achievement to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who played a prominent role in having June 21st declared International Yoga Day by the UN.
“It was great recognition for yoga, so to thank our prime minister I want to achieve this Guinness World Record and help propagate yoga on a global level,” he told the SCMP just before undertaking his enduring yoga session.
The Indian Council General in Hong Kong offered Yogaraj his “heartiest congratulations”, as do we here at Coconuts.
What else was he going to do with a name like that, though?
Words: Sidney Gourgel
Photo: Facebook
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