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Outdoor courtyard at an ashram campus with a salmon-pink multi-storey building behind. Several practitioners perform mallakhamba pole yoga on tall vertical wooden poles. A shaved-headed man in a black top and black shorts holds a pole on the left foreground. A bare-chested man in orange shorts is braced on a pole near centre, while others in orange and red clothing stand on mats nearby. A large screen shows a video of a performer, and a metal lighting tower and speakers stand at right. A few spectators watch from the balcony and a foreground man in black observes. No clearly appearance-based a person candidate is visible.

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October 03 20172017-10-03October 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor stone courtyard at a person ashram where participants practise Shivasthamba Yoga, also called mallakhamba pole yoga. Several wooden poles stand upright on the paved ground with students gripping and posing on them. Some participants wear white dhoti-style cloths and white or black tops; a man in an orange robe climbs a pole in the centre-left foreground, while a figure in orange robes and others in saffron stand and sit around the courtyard. Foam mats lie on the stone, a black speaker stack and a staging platform stand at left, and green bamboo trees and a red-walled building frame the background. Roughly thirty people are visible, and a figure in orange robes is on the central pole.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03October 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a large mallakhamba (pole yoga) session on a paved courtyard. Many participants perform postures on tall wooden poles and on red and blue mats. Several people wear saffron-orange clothing, and others wear white shirts or black outfits. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti, with a white cord across his shoulder, holds a pole in the foreground while a shirtless young man in a white dhoti and a second shirtless man in the front watch and assist. A man in a white shirt and grey trousers stands at right, and a man in a saffron turban and saffron shawl stands at right edge. Red-roofed buildings, parked cars and trees form the background.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor courtyard of a red-orange multi-storey building where practitioners perform Shivasthamba Yoga, also called mallakhamba, on tall wooden poles. In the centre, a shirtless man in red-orange shorts climbs a vertical wooden pole, one leg hooked high while his body stretches upward; blue crash mats lie at its base. Around him, shirtless men in orange and black shorts stand, squat and wait beside other poles and mats. A white-covered table and a few seated onlookers are visible at the right, with trees and a parked white car behind. No clear identifiable a person figure is visible in this image.2017-10-03Outdoor mass Shivasthamba Yoga (mallakhamba) session on a paved courtyard at an ashram. Many practitioners perform pole postures on tall vertical wooden poles set on blue mats; several wear orange shorts and some bare-chested, one in an orange sari-like wrap on the left. Foreground: a man with long braided hair in orange shorts stands beside a pole while another performs a leg-extended pole posture. Two men on the right, one in a dark t-shirt with a badge and one bare-chested in an orange dhoti-style cloth with a badge, watch. Behind them a stone building, scaffolding truss and speaker stacks, palm trees and a clear sky.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a paved courtyard where many people practise Shivasthamba Yoga (mallakhamba pole yoga) on tall wooden poles set in blue mats. In the foreground, a group of women in orange and red saris and a girl in a dark outfit stand together near a white cloth. Several men and women in orange shorts, bare-chested participants and people in white and black clothing perform poses around the poles. Large dark screens on the left show a live feed of practitioners. Trees, flags and a tall scaffold structure stand in the background under a bright sky.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOverhead view of a stone-paved courtyard where many participants practise Shivasthamba Yoga, also called mallakhamba, on tall vertical wooden poles. Several performers climb or hang from the poles while others stand on padded mats in dark sports clothes and shorts. In the lower foreground, two men in orange-red cloth and one bare-chested man grip a pole, with a woman in orange nearby. A metal lighting truss, speaker cabinets and road cases stand at right, and cables run across the paving. Many people appear, roughly 20 to 30 counted across the scene.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copies