Meditation and Relaxation through Yoga

Department of Physical Education and IQAC of Government College of Teacher Education, Thycaud in collaboration with Heartfulness organized a programme titled Meditation and Relaxation through Yoga. The motto of the programme was 

''Find happiness within nature and yourself.

For a healthy and peaceful life, make yoga a habit''.

The first session was presided over by the Principal, Dr VK Santhosh Kumar who formally inaugurated the programme. Mariya George offered a pleasant start to the programme with a beautiful prayer, Devika PS delivered the welcome speech and Sandhya A expressed the vote of thanks.

Yoga is 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. It 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.

Meditation trainers Shibu Saifudeen, Jayasree D.K and Yoga instructor Vishnu B led the three sessions which were specifically named as Meditation, Intuition and Prayer. They explained to us the significance of yoga and its increasing popularity. We were asked to perform simple meditation techniques as per the instruction of them which aimed at helping us tackle the stress and pressure and get to know our inner self better.