EP14: Cricketer to Yogi and taking yoga to the world — 130k downloads in 75 days {Sarvesh Sashi, Co-founder & CEO of Sarva}

Varun Vummidi
Stars and Startups
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2 min readJun 18, 2020

Sarvesh Sashi was a cricketer from Chennai who was picked in 2 IPL squads. Yep, he put IPL fame aside to pursue his love for Yoga.

Sarvesh talks about how he met his guru and how he took up Yoga. He also shares how the app has a star studded investor list including celebrities like Jennifer Lopes & her husband, baseball legend, Alex Rodriguez. We get chatting about yoga of course, and a lot lot more.

Sarva has Malaika Arora, tv celebrity and actress, as a co-founder and more recently the app also brought onboard cricketer Shikhar Dhawan as an investor.

If you want to join a rocket ship you should reach out to Sarvesh and team!

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Timeline:

01:09 — Arrogance, Attitude & Anger | Circket was life, meeting a guru

06:12 — Injury free with Yoga & being picked up by IPL teams

07:33 — Yoga has genuinely become a part of competitive sports

09:35 — Bikram

11:45 — Yoga being adopted across the world

12:55 — Sarva

14:05 — Adoption of Yoga

15:41 — Improving life outcomes with Yogic practice

17:23 — Importance of Yogic practice

21:35 — Celebrities launching workout programs

24:10 — Getting J.Lo & A.Rod as investors

26:35 — Moving away from creating studios to just focusing on a digital strategy

30:40 — Trends on app usage

32:54 — Enabling jobs with yoga

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Varun Vummidi
Stars and Startups

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