INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY IN ST CLARE SCHOOL, AKULUTO
St Clare School celebrated International yoga day on Friday 21st June
2024. Sir Krishna Panika the yoga teacher explained the importance of
yoga in our life. He said, “Over the last few decades, there has been an
upsurge in the prevalence of yoga. Medical professionals and celebrities
are also adopting and recommending the regular practice of yoga due its
various benefits. While some regard yoga as simply one more prevailing
fashion and associate it with the new age mysticism, others vouch for
how astonishing this form of exercise feels. What they don't understand
is that what they see as simply just another form of exercise will
profit them in ways they never envisioned.
Before we get into the benefits of Yoga, it is essential to understand
what exactly Yoga really is. Yoga is not a religion, it’s a way of
living that aims towards a healthy mind in a healthy body. Man is a
physical, mental and spiritual being; Yoga helps in developing the
balance between all the three as stated in Ayurveda in India. Other
forms of exercise, like aerobics, only assure physical wellbeing. These
exercises have very little to do with the improvement of spiritual or
astral body.
Yoga is not just about bending or twisting the body and holding the
breath. It is a technique to bring you into a state where you see and
experience reality simply the way it is. If you enable your energies to
become exuberant and ecstatic, your sensory body expands. This enables
you to experience the whole universe as a part of yourself, making
everything one, this is the union that yoga creates.”
According to him some of the advantages of Yoga are as follow:
It improves brain function, lowers stress levels, alters gene
expression, increases flexibility, lowers blood pressure, improves lung
capacity, relieves anxiety, relieves chronic back pain, lowers blood
sugar in diabetics, improves sense of balance, Stronger bones, Healthy
weight, Lowers risk of heart diseases and so on.
Thereafter he taught several yoga postures or Asanas to the students and
asked them to lean from him the postures.
Report by Fr P. Stephen Dsouza Headmaster
St Clare School, Akuluto – Zunheboto Dist
