Shyam has stopped working in finance and now works on The Loving Heart Centre, to create love and happiness in the world. He loves God.
Shyam has been practising yoga since 1957 and been teaching yoga since 1973. He has a Czech mother and Indian father but was brought and has lived almost all his life in England, with a Christian upbringing. At Cambridge University he did maths. He became interested in yoga philosophy and Hinduism. Later he became a Hindu and then in 2001 he gave up his Hindu sacred thread in order to fully devote his life to helping all nice people become happy. He has had a variety of religious experiences in his life and worships God almost every moment of his waking hours.