"It is your birth right to persist disease free, healthy, fit, slim, looking beautiful & younger, in complete peace of mind and get back robust health, better than your age" says P.P. Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj. In the world health history, Swami Ramdevji Maharaj is considered to be the first one, who uses freely available `Pran` (Oxygen) as a medicine. He remains successful in turns and treated thousands of grievously diseased persons who are suffering from lethal diseases like Diabetes, H.B.P., Angina, Blockages in Arteries, Obesity, Asthma, Bronchitis, Leucoderma, Depression, Parkinson, Insomnia, - Migraine, Thyroid, Arthritis, Cervical Spondalities, Hepatitis, Chronic Renal Failure, Cancer, Cirrhosis of Liver, Gas, constipation. Acidity etc.

Curing these diseases are still reckoned to be a challenge in modern medical science. Swami Ramdev has addressed this issue with his yogic Pranayama while making "Oxygen", the medicine to treat the ailments. The presence ofYoga was always there as one of the traditional Indian remedy however Swami Ramdev was one of the leaders to redefine Yogic therapy to address medical ailments. Ramdev Ji, celebrated Yoga teacher, through the medium of television, has taken the art of yoga to each and every household far and wide. His separation from worldly happiness and devotion to social service has made him an out of the ordinary character in the angelic world.

This renowned Yoga teacher, Ramdev was born in Alipur, in the Mahendragarh district of Indian state of Haryana as `Ramkishan Yadav`. Till the eighth grade, he attended school in Shahjadpur. Thenceforward, to study Sanskrit and Yoga, he attended a yogic monastery (gurukul) in Khanpur village. After an unspecified period of time, he gave up worldly life and entered into Sanyas (monastic living) and took the name Swami Ramdev. He went to Jind district to join the Kalva gurukul. He started offering Yoga training initially to the villagers across Haryana. It is said that before his settlement in Haridwar, he travelled the Himalayas for several years. Several medicinal plants in the Himalayas were claimed to have been discovered by him that are being used in treating his patients. With the establishment of Divya Yoga Mandir Trust along with Acharya Kraamveer, Ramdev commenced inexorable efforts to popularise Yoga in 1995.

In 1995, Swami Shankerdevji Maharaj initiated Ramdev into the ascetic order, and thus he joined the order of swamis. During his training period to be a Swami, he thoroughly studied ancient Indian scriptures. He also practiced intense self-discipline and meditation at the same time. God resides in every human being and that the body is God`s temple-is his teachings. He storngly believes in the concept of `Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam` (the whole World is one family) and condemns practices that single out on the basis of caste, creed or gender. Expressions of love, affection and compassion towards all living things are his fundamental belief and these are the true worship of the Creator.

Traditional Indian scriptures such as `Ashtadhyayee`, `Mahabhashya` and `Upanishads` along with six systems of Indian Philosophy and their several aspects has been taught by Ramdev in various Gurukuls (traditional Indian systems of education). Gurukuls in Kishangarh, Ghashera, and Mahendragarh in India has been established with the helping hand of Ramdev. The Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust, founded by him, has built several institutions. These institutions helps people to learn Yoga and spirituality and also provides a compound facility to elevate the practice of the traditional system of holistic medicine, Ayurveda, in India. Through the religious TV channel Aastha, his educational shows are being broadcasted. Zee network,Sahara One and IndiaTV also broadcasts his shows as well.

Baba Ramdev teaches Pranayama, a form of Yoga. The program consists of six breathing exercises, practiced in the following sequence…

Bhastrika Pranayama ---

Bhastrika is a powerful exercise, which is a combination of Kapalabhati and Ujjayi. In Sanskrit `Bhastrika` means `bellows`. A characteristic feature of Bhastrika is Rapid succession of forcible expulsion.

Kapal Bhati Pranayama ---

`Kapal` means forehead and `Bhati` means light. Therefore, Kapal-Bhati refers to that exercise which makes the forehead lucent and burnished. To Swamiji "dharti ki sanjivini hai kapal-bhati pranayam" and that it "cures all diseases of world".

Bahaya Pranayama ---

Bahya Pranayama or External Kumbakha is the holding of breath. In this pranayama, the breath is held back outside for a longer duration than inhalation and exhalation. The ratio of inhalation, exhalation and retention is 3: 6:12.

Anulom Vilom Pranayama---

is breathing exercise where one inhales through one nostril and breathes out through another. Anulom Vilom pranayam is considered to have benefited for the people with Heart ailments, high blood pressure, heart blockages, depression, migraine pain, asthma, sinus, and allergy.

Bhramri Pranayama---

The original word in the term Bhramari is Bhramar (humming bee). The characteristic of this pranayama is to create a sound like that of the humming bee while closing ears with thumb, index finger on forehead, and rest three on base of nose touching eyes, breathe in and now breathe out through nose.

Udgeeth Pranayama---

Breathe in deeply, and chant `Om`kar. OOOOOOm ( long O and small m )

All over the country, Yog Science camps have been conducted regularly by Ramdev and sometimes abroad as well. In the year 2006, in London Ramdev Ji spent almost a month teaching Pranayam and Yoga. In January 2007, he was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate degree by KIIT University, a well-respected teaching and research institute for Science and Technology, during a ceremony presided over by the respected scientist and Nobel laureate Richard Ernst in recognition of his efforts at propagating the Vedic science of Yoga. During his visit to Jabalpur to impart yoga training to Army personnel, Swamiji commented, "See, I am a follower of penance, sacrifice, non-violence and truth. But I am also a follower of revolutionaries. I live a simple life. I don`t do what everyone else does. But I believe that the freedom of our country is because of the sacrifice of martyrs".