Yoga
Yoga doesn't require an introduction. Yet, the popular understanding and practice of Yoga worldover is currently confined to the physcical Asanas and Pranayama. While this is good in itself, it is only small part of what constitutes Yoga according to Patanjali's exposition. We hope we would be able to devout more time to the real essence of Yoga in a slow paced village.
What we have done so far:
We learnt Yoga in India and when we moved to the US in 1999, invited a group of friends to practice with us on weekends. Some of them had learnt yoga previously, some learnt from us and all of them taught us. This became a good ritual for us over the years and helped us deepen our practice and also explore community aspects of it.
What we intend to do:
We are convinced that Yoga can provide multiple benefits to everyone and hence we intend to open up the Community Space for anyone to drop in and learn and practice Yoga whenever they would like to. Also, given that villagers work hard and long hours of physical labor, we would also invite experts in Yoga Therapy to in help the community learn best practices a la rural ergonomics.
Another interesting exercise would be to create instructional material on paper and in video in the local language Tamil (or refine any existing material) and train interested local school teachers to become yoga teachers.
If you are a yoga practitioner, do share with us any lessons and material in any media that could help.
Another interesting exercise would be to create instructional material on paper and in video in the local language Tamil (or refine any existing material) and train interested local school teachers to become yoga teachers.
If you are a yoga practitioner, do share with us any lessons and material in any media that could help.