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Sidharth Malhotra takes up yoga; his guru is quite impressed with his progress
Upala KBR (DNA; April 11, 2016)

Sidharth Malhotra has been practicing yoga with Suveer Balvi for the last seven months. Balvi has been training Akshay Kumar and his wife Twinkle Khanna for years. In fact, it was Akshay who put Suveer on to the younger actor and convinced him to take up yoga. Sidharth is now hooked to who he calls, “The best yoga guru in town.” Suveer teaches Ashtanga Yoga, which is the eight-fold path towards liberation.

Suveer says, “Sidharth started learning yoga when Brothers was about to release in August last year. Akshay had told him about the benefits of yoga and put him on to me. Sidharth started yoga to lose weight and prepare for his next role. He also had to recover from the various injuries he had while doing hardcore action in his earlier films. It was training for his mind and body and healing his injuries. Since then, he’s been doing yoga every day. He does his gym workouts and yoga as well.”

The yoga instructor adds that the actor is very dedicated. “Whenever he’s in town and free, he calls me over. The basic essence of yoga is how not to go haywire, practise our basic values in life and to change our dreams. Yoga is 99 per cent practice on mat and 1 per cent philosophy. It is not just about asanas and pranayams, but discipline and practising moral and ethical codes of conduct.”

Sidharth says, “Yes, I have been learning yoga under Suveer. Yoga is a complete workout for mind, body and soul which help me tackle modern-day stresses.”