Acharya Premayamananda,
Anada Marga Yoga Society, Singapore.
As a young man named Petracca Giuseppe, Dada (as Premayamananda is fondly called by his followers) enjoyed his wine, cigarettes and tamasic food, along with long discussions about communism and capitalism. Yoga and meditation made him unexpectedly turn to his calling “of a total different plane”, and he became Acharya of Ananda Marga. “My new lifestyle became so intense and pleasing that I never even thought of going back to my old self,” he told Yoga Journal Singapore.
It was his regular training in Sweden, followed by his learnings in Varanasi, India, that led him to become a yoga teacher in 1994. Since then, he has spent most of his time in South East Asia, mostly Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.
By YJS Editors
This article was first published in the print edition of Yoga Journal Singapore, which is now Yogahood Online.
