In 2019 Manju successfully completed The Camino Francés or French Way walking just under 800km from St. Jean-Pied-du-Port in France all the way across Spain to Santiago. Through the kind sponsorship of his students he raised £6,000 for Macmillan This is what he wrote about it on the Macmillan website before he set off:

“Around 6 years ago, maybe more, before I went to bed I watched a film about a walk called The Camino de Santiago. When I woke up the next morning my wife asked me if I was ok because I had kept her awake moving my legs very fast all through the night and she thought maybe I had trapped a nerve. I told her that I had been dreaming that I was walking The Camino de Santiago and that one day I would definitely do it for real. Since then I have thought about that walk a lot so this year for my 50th birthday I am taking some time out and doing it. Because this year Jersey will have been my permanent home for 10 years I want to give something back to the local community. A small way I can do this is to ask for sponsorship for Macmillan Jersey because I know from teaching yoga at Macmillan that this journey is a small challenge compared to the many challenges the people that Macmillan supports face. I am sure that there will be days when I will really struggle on this walk and it is on those days in particular that I will remember all my Macmillan yoga students and those thoughts will inspire me to continue.”

Above is a short video he made the day he completed the walk.