Strike A Pose! NCC, NSS & Student Activity Cell of St Aloysius College Observe ‘World Yoga Day’
Strike A Pose! NCC, NSS & Student Activity Cell of St Aloysius College Observe World Yoga Day, with a motto “Yoga- a Key to Better Health & New Life
Mangaluru : “Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame”; “Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.”; “Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”; Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory”; Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible”- and that’s absolutely right, as said by various renowned persons.
Yoga is a group of physical, mental and spiritual practices which originated in ancient India. International Day for Yoga was declared unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly on 21 June in 2015. Since its inception, International Day of Yoga is celebrated annually all over the world And for that matter, The NCC Units (Army, Navy and Air Wing of 18 KAR Battalion NCC and 5 (Kar) NCC Naval Unit), National Service Scheme (NSS) and Student Activity Cell of St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru celebrated International Yoga Day on 21st June 2019 in the AR 803 hall in the Arrupe Block of the College.
Being a holiday due to the feast of Patron Saint of the College-St Aloysius Gonzaga, while majority of the students of St Aloysius college were still on bed hugging their pillows, but quite few of these students braving the heavy downpour in the morning, did assemble in time at 7.30 am for the Yoga exercise to mark World Yoga Day. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed yoga along with around 30,000 people in Ranchi this morning on the occasion of the fifth International Yoga Day, a large group, of Aloysians performed Yoga at St Aloysius College in Mangaluru. Everyone wanted to strike a pose—a yoga pose, that is! These strength and flexibility-focused postures flew into full sequences that even Vinyasa newbies also loved it?
Lt Col Gracian Sequeira, Admn Officer, 18 Karn Bn; Dr Ishwar Bhat-the coordinator of the event, and professor in Physics; Lt Shakin Raj, ANO, Army Wing of College, Sub Lt Hariprasad Shetty, ANO Navy Wing of College; Subedar Shivanand and all staff of 18 Kar Battalion NCC Army Wing; Com Officer Manoj of 18 Kar Battalion; Alwin D’souza- College NSS Programme Officer; Ms Sushila Mumari V- the Yoga Instructor of the event; PI Staff and Cadets took part in the International Yoga Day. The welcome address was delivered by Dr Ishwar Bhat, where he stressed on the importance of Yoga for a better health and new life, and advised the students to start practicing yoga for a healthy life.
The Yoga instructor Ms Sushila Kumari V prior to the beginning of Yoga exercises gave a in depth history of Yoga and its benefits which benefits one’s health and long life. From Surya Namaskar to Naukasana, Tadasana, Vrikshasana, Trikonasana, and many other Asanas, the participants got all their muscles in their body engaged during the exercises. Working their limbs, shoulders stretched, twisting their torso, they all juggled between maintaining postures and attempting to breathe the right way. This ancient form of fitness with roots in India did focus on developing balance, strength and flexibility. And truly Yoga is all about pushing past your body’s limits over time- and that’s what all these NCC Cadets, NSSand Student activity Cell along with the representatives of 18 Kar BN NCC and others did. Bravo!
About Ms Sushila Kumari V-the Yoga Instructor :
Today’s Yoga instructor Ms Sushila Kumari V, is a retired Principal of Karnataka Polytechnic, Mangaluru, and presently during her retired life teaches yoga to the young and old, and has trained hundreds of people under the leadership of her Yoga Guru Yogaratna Gopalakrishna Delampady, Mangaluru of “Delampady Yoga”, who is an alumnus of St Aloysius College. In the National Senior Citizen Yoga Contest held in Bengaluru, she won the IInd place, and she has also passed the Government Yoga Instructor Exams, conducted by Govt of India.
