Money and the mat
THE WEEK India|August 20, 2023
THE WEEK-Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund seminar looked at the similarities between yoga and financial planning
MATHEW T. GEORGE
Money and the mat

The verdant campus of The Yoga Institute (TYI) in Santa Cruz presents an uncommon sight in Mumbai. Trees shade every available open space, and the atmosphere is one of mindfulness. Step into this minimalist space, and you might forget that you are in Maximum City.

In late June, TYI hosted a seminar that saw the coming together of two unlikely subjects-yoga and personal finance. THE WEEK-Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund seminar series on personal finance had picked 'Holistic Wellness for Life' as the theme. And, there could not have been a better venue than The Yoga Institute (TYI), which was established in 1918 and is regarded to be the oldest organised yoga centre in the world.

The panel comprised K.S. Rao, executive vice president and head of investor education at Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd; Amit Trivedi, personal finance expert and founder of Karmayog Knowledge Academy; and Rajendra Kalur, management consultant, and chairperson of the CFA Society of India.

The invocation to the divine was led by Shailesh S. Parikh of TYI; Shree Kumar Menon, THE WEEK's resident chief general manager in Mumbai; and the panellists. Rao then took the audience through a quick introduction to the theme. Following this, the panel discussion began.

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