About Sri Bala Ratnam

Sri Bala Ratnam was born in Sri Lanka in 1922.

Sri Bala migrated to Australia in 1985, by which time he had already become a dedicated student of the science of Yoga and had qualified from:

• The Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation (sVYASA) Bangalore and
• The Bihar School of Yoga, Monghyr, India.

He commenced a career as a Yoga Therapist the following year in Melbourne.

He has since undertaken extensive study, including obtaining qualifications from the International Centre of Yoga Education and Research, Pondicherry.

He founded Vibrational Breath Therapy in 1993.

He has conducted individual programs, workshops and retreats, nationally, as well as in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, UK, and USA.

Sri Bala has presented papers at conventions, conferences and seminars in Australia, India and Malaysia.

He was awarded a Gold Medal by the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine in 1993 in Calcutta for his original contributions to Yoga Therapy in the treatment and healing of stress-related and immune-deficient conditions.

He was awarded the title of “Yoga Bhishmacharya” by Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER in April 2009 in Sydney in recognition of his yeoman service for the cause of Yoga in general and Gitananda Yoga in particular.

He was also  a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia for four years.

Sri Bala was initiated into Kriya Yoga by Yogi Prakash Shankar in May 2009. 

Sri Bala is eighty seven years of age and "walks his talk". He is a living testimony to the benefits of Vibrational Breath Therapy.