Seasoned actor Lalit Parimo has turned into an innovative yoga teacher. The actor has devised his style of yoga called ‘Abhinaya Yog’.

Abhinaya yog is the combination of two words 'Abhinaya' and 'Yog', the aim of which is self-development of an individual, with the aid of basic acting skills and yogic techniques. Abhinaya Yog helps one fight all kinds of mental ailments. He believes that all diseases are psychosomatic so it is the mind that has to be understood and treated. "Our world of emotions, thoughts, feelings, has to be made stronger, more positive, more optimistic," he sighs.

The theory behind Abhinaya Yog is very simple. “Everyone on this earth is an actor and he or she comes in the world for a brief span of time and goes away. Most of us fail to play our roles properly and hence life becomes a series of mistakes. Discovering the actor within you helps you refashion your thinking patterns and free yourself of psychosomatic ailments,” Parimoo explains.

Abhinaya Yoga has three phases.

The first phase – It teaches you the basic skills of the craft of acting or abhinaya so that one is able to reproduce and re-enact all the major feelings and emotions of one's life.

The second phase - It teaches an individual how to cleanse the mind and get rid of all negative emotions and replace them with positive emotions and thinking. In Abhinaya Yog workshop, role playing helps one vent negative feelings. The students are asked to act out a scene, in the way they would react to a situation. This also helps the students in opening up easily. A fifteen day chart is given to follow the rhythm of one's emotional world and a list of scenes depicting positive emotions. The negative emotions are let out through the enactment of dramatic scenes, thus creating conditions for catharsis; a perfect healing process.

The third and final phase of Abhinaya Yog. In this stage an individual realises his true nature and starts new and fresh journey which is going into the depth of his being.

"These workshops are very useful in the corporate world during this time recession. A lot of negativity has spread all around. These workshops would help people vent out their negative energy and help them understand their co-worker better and teach them the art of working as a team", concludes the actor.