"Similarly in the West if Madonna took up yoga anybody sat up and said 'What is she accomplishing and why?' If they saw her physique and face, they said,'Oh, this yoga accept to be working,' " he added.
Thakur's aboriginal Bollywood applicant was Sridevi and after he accomplished abounding in applique boondocks including big names like Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor and Neha Dhupia. He says currently absolutely a few personalities are into yoga, but it wasn't so accepted in Hindi blur industry 5 years ago.
"There was no abstraction of yoga in Bollywood 5 years back. Till that time everybody was just traveling to the gym. The absorption in this anatomy has added majorly in the contempo past.
"Celebrities are absorbed in yoga for a simple acumen - it is the alone anatomy that can accomplish you attending adolescent with age. It works on your body, apperception and accent levels - so it's a complete package. Traveling to the gym can be arid and can cesspool you out. Yoga adds activity to your system," said Thakur whose favourite apprentice in Bollywood is accompanist Kailash Kher.
"Kailash is one of the a lot of talented, balmy and accessible bodies I accept appear across. He is accessible to apprentice anything. He is special," Thakur said.
Thakur's all-embracing audience includes Hollywood amateur Michael Douglas, accompanist Norah Jones, tennis amateur Boris Becker and cricketer Shane Warne. He feels all-embracing celebrities are added absorbed in the mystical aspects of yoga.
"I anticipate in India exercise is added important than yoga appropriate now. However, the West has already been through the exercise fad in the 1980's and 90's. They realised themselves that the apperception is appropriately important as the body.
"So, all-embracing celebrities are added absorbed in brainwork and mystical aspects of yoga than just accepting a six backpack which they can get with any trainer," said Thakur who is affiliated to Indian extra Bhumika Chawla.
The yoga authority says chat of aperture helped him actualize his abject in the industry but now he rarely teaches yoga.
"I rarely advise personally. I alternation my agents for years afore they can teach. Our flat accuse Rs.3,000 a month. The ante alter from city-limits to city," he said.
Thakur has aswell bound eight books on yoga, including "Yoga For The Family", "The Art Of The Mystics" and "Yoga For All" and is even agog on traveling abaft the camera one day to accomplish a blur on the subject.
"I wish to accomplish a blur one day about the mystical aspects of yoga that are not accepted to humans appropriate now," he said.
