Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The First Day of Yoga Programme for Get Ready Boys and Girls - by Ritthy


Yoga is a Sanskrit word which refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines that originated in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy. In Jainism, it refers to the sum total of all activities—mental, verbal and physical.

Today, Riverkids organizes Yoga lessons taught by NataRaj Yoga. The programme is especially catered to the Get Ready teens who are now growing up. Very often, we see these teens express their anger through violence. Through this programme, they will be trained to handle their emotions in stressful situations more maturely, calmly and objectively.

Yoga is practiced once a week – on Thursday in Alexandra and Blum Project. We hope it will help the adults control their behaviour and feelings too.

The Education Department in Riverkids would like to say “thank you so much!” to Sister Dale Edmonds for everything she is doing for the slum children.

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