Yogi Prof. Lal, also known as Yogiraj Swami Lal Ji Maharaj was born on 15th June 1944 in the family of renowned traditional yogis.
He was initiated into yoga at the age of 8 by his father, Yogiraj Swami Devi Dayal Ji Maharaj, who founded 40 yoga centers in the country in his lifetime. Ever since he has been pursuing yoga as a tool to help the suffering masses in India and abroad.
In the year 1970, he was amongst the first five reputed yoga therapists to have been invited by the Ministry of Health, Government of India to undertake a research project on Yoga Therapy and he had the privilege of not only doing research on Yoga Therapy for the Ministry of Health till 1977, but also was involved in conducting research on Yoga therapy for the Psychiatry Department of Willingdon Hospital, New Delhi, which proved to be so useful that the Ministry of Health made yoga as one of the most important segment under Ayush ( Ministry of Health) .
