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Outdoor photo of a yoga practice session at an ashram courtyard with an orange-painted multi-storey building behind. A young man with long dreadlocks and orange shorts, bare-chested, performs a balancing posture on a vertical wooden mallakhamba pole, one leg extended and held with his hand. Several other practitioners in orange shorts perform poses on similar poles in the background. A seated older man in a dark shirt with a pendant watches at lower left. Green trees and a plain sky are visible at right.

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October 03 20172017-10-03October 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesA smiling young man with long dreadlocked hair tied back performs Shivasthamba Yoga, also called mallakhamba pole yoga, on a vertical wooden pole. He is bare-chested, wearing bright orange shorts and a thin cord at the waist, with a red tilak on his forehead. He grips the pole with both arms and hooks one leg around it while the other foot rests on the pole, lifting his body. Behind him are salmon-coloured multi-storey ashram buildings with wooden shuttered windows, and a second robed person stands in the background near a green plant.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOctober 03 20172017-10-03October 03 20172017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor mallakhamba demonstration on a paved stone courtyard under a cloudy sky, with trees and a red-roofed building behind. In the foreground a shirtless young man with long hair tied back performs a pole yoga posture, gripping a tall vertical wooden pole with his legs wrapped around it and palms pressed together in namaste. He wears an orange dhoti-style cloth and a thin cord necklace. Beside him, three shirtless men in orange cloths and gold chains sit with hands folded in prayer, and a crowd of other practitioners in orange cloths perform on more poles and blue mats across the courtyard. No identifiable a person is visible in the foreground.2017-10-03 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a shirtless male yoga practitioner performing Shivasthamba Yoga (mallakhamba pole yoga) on a tall wooden pole. He grips the pole with both hands while his bare legs wrap around it, one foot raised, a small red tilak mark on his forehead and a thin cord around his neck. He wears dark shorts. Behind him stand red-orange multi-storey buildings under a cloudy blue sky, with a tiled rooftop at lower left. Another person's hand holds his foot from below at the bottom edge of the frame.2017-10-03