Matt Ryan has been teaching yoga for over 20 years and practicing it for even longer. A celebrated DJ at the world-famous (and notorious) Hacienda club in Manchester in the 1990s, his yoga journey was interrupted by injuries and surgery on not just one of his knees, but both. But he bounced back, literally and metaphorically, with an innovative knee support product — the nee-ji (or knee guru) — that has reinvigorated his practice and brought hope to thousands of others too. Here’s his story, in his own words, on how he turned adversity into opportunity:
“I’d only just started teaching yoga, around March 2001. I’d been to Mysore in India to study Ashtanga in
