Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Not once, not twice, but 16 times. This guy had a car run over him while he lay on a bed of nails, for a total of 16 times!
Yoga practitioner P. Balakrishnan repeated his death-defying feat of lying on a bed of 108 nails while having a car run over him.
The 60-year-old drew gasps of awe from the audience during a family day event organised by the Taman Universiti branch of Malaysia Hindu Dharma Mamandram group yesterday.
Balakrishnan, who is a yoga guru and nicknamed “Ironman”, started yoga at 17. He completed similar feats twice when he was 47 and 50.
“I am doing it now at 60 to prove that age is no barrier to achieving anything. It is possible to achieve this feat with discipline and proper yoga exercises,” he said after the event at the MBJBT Hutan Bandar near here.
“To accomplish this feat, I stayed away from red meat, eggs, garlic and red onion. Proper breathing techniques are a must to strengthen the body while the car wheels moved over me.”
Balakrishnan appeared calm as a Proton Iswara Aeroback drove over his abdomen as he laid on a bed of nails. A wooden plank was placed on top of his abdomen.
He said he felt no pain and disclosed that he has practised this mind-boggling feat 16 times since his first attempt in 1993.
Kedah-born Balakrishnan has written four books, including two entitled Yoga Path — an Introduction and Yoga Food.
For the past 15 years, he has embarked on a mission to teach yoga to youth as a means to eradicate social ills.
He is also writing the first- ever English translation of the 12 Thirumurai — the biography and works of 63 prominent poet-saints of Tamilnadu, India.
One of Balakrishnan’s young yoga pupils, Keyshore Kumar, 12, said yoga has boosted his health.
“It was difficult to master yoga at first but I worked hard to overcome the pain. Now I enjoy it as it keeps me healthy,” said the SK Taman Kangkar Pulai pupil.
