On February 13th, the day after the soft launch at USC, Vish Iyer was invited to speak at FRED talks about Yoga & Love. Vish was invited to be one of the speakers on February 13th by Steve Glenn. The FRED Talks took place in a beautiful home that was completely Eco friendly and was built in 8 hours. Is if that was not impressive enough over two hundred individuals were in attendance for the talks that evening.
Some may be wondering what FRED Talks are and if they are the same as the famous TED Talks that are viewable online and cover a wide variety of topics. TED Talks are on a much larger scale and are better known than FRED Talks. In addition to that main difference there are two of other major differences.
The first one is FRED Talks are given by individuals who are up and coming in their area of expertise versus those who may already be very well known in their field. Each FRED talk is also significantly shorter than the time allotted for a TED Talk. FRED speakers have 6 minutes to present their topic while TED allows up to 20 minutes for talks. For those who have done any manner of public speaking you know that 6 minutes is not much time at all which adds to the fun and challenge of presenting your work. To learn more about FRED Talks you can visit their website at http://fredtalks.org
Steve was an amazing host. Vish was the second speaker to give his talk and he felt this was easily his best talks yet. After the talk about 50 people came up to Vish and told him his definition of love was one of the most accurate they had ever heard. This definition is “Love is an unending ecstatic oneness experience which gives rise to forgetfulness our lower self.”
This was an extremely positive experience for Vish and Yoga & Love. Vish is really excited to see such enthusiastic fans of the book and its message.
"It is about learning to love from the inside out. Yes a big part of the book is about Yoga, but the core message of it , is learning to and how to love yourself on the inside. It emphasizes so much on focusing on yourself, that is such a refreshing perspective on relationships.” Paulina D, San Diego, CA
"The core message of the book is before you unite with someone try to unite with yourself. It is learning about yourself, finding yourself and then if you choose to you can find love on the outside . The book gives ways to do just that in simple step by step way.” 
"Yoga is a life long process and the goal of life is self exploration. The book inspires me to make myself whole, integrated, to feel complete unto myself. Once I do that , I will attract a holistic, integrated person who is a totality of himself, which is how a relationship is supposed to be.” 
"Yoga is love, love is Yoga. It is not a relationship book, it is not just a love book, it is a lifestyle book. It is educational, informative, a message that everybody can apply. It teaches you how to be a better person, so that you don’t just find the love of your life but learn to have better relationships with everyone.” 