He worked as the director of ‘Yoga’ for Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Yoga & Moral Education Project for 18 years. He has also travelled throughout the country and abroad, is well known for his teachings on yoga. He is the son of Sri Karkala Ranganatha Pai. In the last 2 decades, as a promoter and teacher of yoga director he has successfully conducted more than 700 yoga workshop, camps both in and outside the country. The beneficiaries include about six lakhs of yoga students and more than 21 thousand of people from the public. He has received some national and international awards like ‘Yoga Vidhyabhushana’. He received Doctorate from Hampi Kannada University for his work on ‘Dasa Sahithya Hagu Yoga Darshana’. Now he has started ‘Sri Vedavyasa Yoga foundation’ in Mysore and under this, he is contributing in the fields of yoga, moral education, yogic cures for some illness, and propagation of research in the field of yoga, Dasa Sathiya. He is also contemplating to bring out an encyclopedia comprising various aspects on yoga.
