Nikolai Manek is an entrepreneur with over thirty years of hands-on business experience. Born and raised in Germany he grew up to become a successful entrepreneur. Nikolai has been self-employed since he was fourteen years old. He has been a pioneer in multiple fields that drive our twenty-first-century technology, like Voice over IP, online billing, virtual reality and multiple Internet technologies. As a restless child, his mother introduced him to meditation techniques at the age of 8, and ever since, he has developed a deep passion and thorough understanding of various kinds of meditation and yoga. These techniques enabled him to tap into a vast creative potential and proved to be key to his numerous entrepreneurial and business successes. He has been an avid meditator for most of his life and eventually decided to share his knowledge with future teachers and students. His unique mixture of a highly successful business career and profound spiritual understanding motivated him to create the Yogamu institute that quickly became a large yoga/meditation school with more than 29,000 teacher students. He has also been named the USA ambassador for the Word Yoga Federation of India as well as the Meditation Alliance International.