English Literature – योग-साधना/Yoga ☆ The Curious Case of “Free Yoga” 🤔 ☆ Shri Jagat Singh Bisht ☆

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Author, Blogger, Educator, and Speaker.)

Authored six books on happiness: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!

🌌 The Curious Case of “Free Yoga” 🤔 🌌

My better half has been teaching yoga for over two decades—not because it is a profession, but because it is her calling. She sincerely believes that if yoga has enriched her life, it should quietly enrich the lives of other women too.

Recently, she opened a small yoga studio. The fee is modest, not because yoga has a price tag, but because smaller groups allow her to know every student, notice every posture, and care for every journey.

She has almost no publicity plan. She has unwavering faith in the oldest social media platform ever invented—one happy human telling another.

As a reasonably obedient husband, I have taken it upon myself to become her unofficial ambassador. Morning and evening walks in the park now have an added purpose. Besides discussing the weather, grandchildren, blood pressure, neighbourhood gossip and the price of tomatoes, I gently mention the yoga classes.

The conversations are invariably delightful.

“Oh, I would have loved to join… but the timings don’t suit.”

Or, with equal sincerity, “Yoga should really be free.”

That always makes me smile.

We willingly pay for dinners that disappear in an hour, subscriptions we hardly use, and countless little indulgences that bring fleeting pleasure. Yet when it comes to investing a little time and a modest sum in the body that serves us every single day, we suddenly become philosophers.

Perhaps yoga is expected to arrive like fresh air—priceless, effortless and waiting at our doorstep.

The gentle irony is that yoga has never demanded much. It asks only for a little space, a little time, a willing mind and a patient heart. The rest it quietly returns—with interest.

Time spent on yoga today has a curious habit of reducing the time spent in waiting rooms tomorrow.

And perhaps that is the real fee.

Everything else is merely the receipt. 🌱