Trading a business suit for yoga mats

The day Sha Jin decided to swap his life as a promotions inventor for a career in yoga, his mother called him crazy. And she wasn't the only one.

All his family and friends were shocked when he revealed he was going to found a yoga retreat in the foothills of Beijing in 2003, not to mention his plans to visit Australia to study satyananda.

"I got used to saying, you know what? I am crazy," said 45-year-old Sha. "I made up my mind and decided to do things that I love regardless of fame or shame, life or death."