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Rear Vision, yoga and the West, how an ancient Indian practice travelled round the world. Adriene Mishler: Welcome everyone and welcome to Yoga with Adriene. I’m Adriene and this is Benji. Let’s begin today’s practice on the ground in extended child’s pose. So come on down. Take your time getting here. I invite you to allow the sound of my voice to guide you here. You’ll want to bow the head. Knees are gonna come as wide as your yoga mat. Big toes to touch. Fingertips reaching all the way forward and, as everybody slowly come on down, melting your heart slowly towards the earth.

“I remember sitting on a terrace in Nice with my uncle and an old friend of his, both in their eighties. They started discussing the meaning of life, firing one saying, anecdote and reflection after another, like a machine gun, in many languages”. That cosmopolitan, philosophical but worldly-wise way of being is what formed the art dealer Johnny Eskenazi, born in 1949 in Italy into a secular Sephardic Jewish family of Ottoman origin, with business interests from Austria and Italy to the UK. “It was very warm and secure. There was an army of relations who would arrive from all ove...