Kunming festival shows growing following for yoga

From young women in their 20s to grandmas in their 80s, thousands of yoga lovers from across China went to Kunming in Yunnan province on May 19 for the China India Yoga Festival, paying thousands of yuan to learn from 18 Indian yoga gurus at a four-day course.

"It's well worth it. Otherwise I would have planned a visit to India to study yoga," says Lu Jinnan, 38, a resident of Kunming.

She booked a hotel room near the building that was used for the yoga course to save time and learn more from the Indian teachers, although her home is only a 30-minute drive from the venue.