Pablo Imani author, Massage therapist, Iconographic Artist, and Balanced Health practitioner trained in Kinesiology. Pablo's lineage comes from various masters in health, African science, cosmology, and martial sciences. Pablo is a member of British School of Yoga, International Board of African Thinkers, Traditional Priest, Priestesses, Healers and Religion Inc. He is the founder of Afrikan Yoga established in the UK, Ghana and Togo West Africa.

I came to practice through the study of cats. We had cats in my house and as a boy I would watch them stretch and imitate them.This was my very first approach to yoga. I must mention that I have not taken this work or practise lightly. I have met death who has been friendly with me since childhood. Each time I have had to ponder on my existence and my purpose. The time when I got ambushed by 3 boys after school, I was around 11 or 12 years, we got in to a fight and they pulled my coat, which had a zipper that caught my throat but did not cut deep enough to slay me then ran off while I laid there on the floor. I still have the scar today. The time once again another fight and I got pushed through a 2 storey window. I walked away with just a cut on my side by my kidneys.

The time I had a gun put to my head by secret police in Cameroon, West Afrca, I was able to talk my way out of that one and walk away. Then when I stood in front of an angry brother with a knife saying he was going to stick me. I waited afraid that this was it and stood there ready to anticipate the thrust. It did not happen. A car crash on an autobahn (motorway) in Sweden during a hip-hop tour where I was guest Dj shook me up. I was not driving the van but we spun several times and hit the barricade without a pile up of cars that normally ensue on a busy autobahn; we all expected it but it did not happen and we were able to continue our journey dazed and thankful.

Another car crash and this time I was driving and it was a head-on collision. The car I was driving was completely written off, this time my children were in the backseat and I was able to climb out of the side window with just a few scratches and get them out. The paramedics said "someone up there loves you". The mechanic said "you are meant to be dead I've seen man dead for less" When my 2 year old daughter had to have an emergency operation on her small intestine because of the crash or else she'll die, that took my acquaintance with death to another level. I began to hear the ancestors loud and clear. Now I got the message. I could no longer walk away from who I am and why I am here, my purpose. I could no longer live the same way that I have been living with the same mental approach.

These series of experiences made me realise that life is precious and that purpose is essential to this earth plane. This is why I teach full time.