Navtej Johar is a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer, a yoga practitioner, a scholar, and a social activist. He has formally trained in Bharatanatyam at Rukmini Devi’s Kalakshetra, and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi; he later studied at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. He is trained in Patanjali Yoga at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, under the guidance of Sri T.K.V. Desikachar. In 2004, he founded the Abhyas Trust: a non-profit organization dedicated to yoga, dance, and urban design. He has developed the Abhyas somatics method, which draws upon the sukha and rasa components of Yoga and Indian dance respectively, as well as the BARPS method that is designed to practice and understand asana from the inside of the body. Navtej Johar was the lead petitioner challenging the section 377 of the Indian Penal code, which considered consensual homosexual sex between adults as unnatural, unconstitutional and illegal. In a landmark decision in 2018 Section 377 was scrapped. He is also an urban activist and runs a project; POS (Power of Seeing) which sensitizes school children about the environment and sustainable living.
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Abhyas Trust - http://www.abhyastrust.org/
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