It is a well-known fact that yoga helps everyone including students not just in gaining strength, balance and flexibility but also in reducing and eliminating stress, improving concentration and focus. Students need to do yoga the most as they are often under a lot of stress due to increasing competition and pressure from their family to get good marks, perform better than others and eventually get a job with a good salary package.
It is a myth that yoga is not as useful as doing aerobic exercises and that it doesn’t really burn fat or help in reducing weight and therefore some youngsters prefer either going to gym or doing other forms of physical workout and don’t practise yoga at all.
However, if one learns how to do yoga correctly (and that includes regulating your breath while doing different yoga poses or ‘asanas’), combining yoga with physical workout or devoting some time to practising yoga along with doing physical exercises or doing these on an alternate basis can help one achieve better results.
The eighth International Yoga Day was celebrated today, i.e. on 21st June, 2022 with its theme being ‘Yoga for humanity’. The first International Yoga Day was celebrated on 21st June, 2015.
The main event was held in Mysore though people from all over India and other countries collectively performed yoga. In Delhi, hundreds of people gathered today at the Dwarka Sports Complex, Thyagaraj stadium and many other such places and celebrated the International Yoga Day by practising various yoga poses and learning the importance of practising Yoga and Pranayam everyday.
The beginners can visit the official website of Bharatiya Yog Sansthan, a non-profit making organization conducting more than 1800 free Yog centers. I am sure you will benefit a lot.
Click here to read instructions to practise some of the popular asanas along with illustrations. Click here to learn how to practise Pranayam.
Click here to view the list of Bharatiya Yog Sansthan’s Yog Centres in Delhi. For locating Yog Centres outside Delhi, please click here.
Click here to watch videos uploaded by Bharatiya Yog Sansthan if you wish to learn how to practise Yoga asanas step-by-step.
If you haven’t been practising yoga, you can start doing it from today. I am sure you won’t regret spending half an hour daily or every other day practising yoga even if you have a very busy schedule or are already spending a considerable amount of time in doing physical workout that you can’t afford to miss.
Yoga is the most easiest way to change and improve our life. Please be consistence and try to explain more such things, because as a student we need to understood our culture and our heritage.