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Sankar Lal Nair

He comes from Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala, India), where for a few years he studied playing traditional Kerala instruments, as well as basics of the dance-theatre, kathakali. He is a certified aiurvedic masseur. He learned the Southern style of kalarippayattu in Thiruvananthapuram mainly from Tirupuram C. Madhavan (Anjaneya Kalari Sangham), Jayachandran Nair (Kerala School of Martial Arts), as well as Thankapan Assan and Ajith Kumar (Maruthi Marma Chikilsa Kalari Sangham and Ayurveda). In the years 2005-2008, he worked with an Indian theatre group Milon Mela, co-leading numerous workshops and performing in festivals in India and Europe (among others in Poland, on invitation of the Grotowski Centre and Institute). Since a year he has lived in Wroclaw (Poland). He leads trainings and workshops of the Southern style of kalarippayattu, and also gives ayurvedic massages.