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A courtyard of pale paving stones hosts a mass Shivasthamba Yoga (mallakhamba) demonstration. Many practitioners perform acrobatic poses on tall vertical wooden poles, some bare-chested in orange or red cloths and others in white shorts, with blue crash mats spread on the ground. Two bare-chested men in the foreground, one in black shorts and one in red-orange cloth, support a practitioner in a seated pose on the pole. A woman in a black top and dark shorts stands at the lower left with arms raised, and a bare-chested man in an orange dhoti walks past at lower center. Behind them is a stone-walled building with a wooden door, black speaker stacks on the right, and a few spectators in white and orange clothing watching from the edge.

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