Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has acquired a Scottish isle for about £2 to set up a wellness retreat.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has acquired a Scottish isle for about £2 to set up a wellness retreat.
The Little Cumbrae Island, off the fishing town of Largs in Scotland, will also serve as the guru’s base overseas, where his teachings of yoga as a means to cleanse the body and mind are gaining popularity.
The acquisition itself was carried out by a Scottish couple of Indian origin, Sam and Sunita Poddar, who saw recession and the resultant fall in property prices as an opportunity to expand the base of Patanjali Yogpeeth — the institution founded by Ramdev for scientific research and treatment in yog, spiritualism and ayurveda.
The island property inaugurated on Sunday with a ‘hawan’ will be administered by the Patanjali Yogpeeth (UK) Trust.
"My aim is to turn this island into a peace haven," said Ramdev, who joins a handful of gurus to have set up international bases. One of them was the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who shot to fame because of his association with The Beatles. He had shifted from Rishikesh to Vlodrop in Netherlands. Ramdev will not move in here just yet.
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