Father Joe Pereira promotes the view that ''accessing the wisdom of the body'' fits in with the teachings of Jesus … Not
well-known in Canada, but famous in India, the brave man who has spent much of his life trying to ease suspicion and build bridges between
yoga and Catholicism is Catholic Father Joe Pereira … In the early 1980s, receiving Mother Teresa''s staunch support for the therapeutic powers of yoga, Pereira founded what is now India''s largest non-governmental charitable health organization, Kripa (www.kripafoundation.org).