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‘International Yoga day’ is observed on 21 June every year, it is celebrated to recognize the many benefits of the ancient Indian practices of Yoga. The year 2020 marks 6th International yoga day and the United Nations theme this time was “Yoga for health- Yoga at home” due to Covid-19 outage worldwide. Last year SAMARTH team had organized an hour session on Yoga in association with WOW at Cinepolis Mall. In which 50 girls from the various centers of SAMARTH had also participated in it. The girls were very enthusiastic to learn the new asanas. As CORONA virus is spreading its wings this year SAMARTH decided to organized webinar on the day. The session was on “Yogic lifestyle and psycho-immunity” in which many prominent Yoga experts Dr. Pravesh Dwivedi Director SAMARTH, Dr Brijesh singh Yoga expert at CSIR –TKDL and Ms Anju Shah graced the session. Dr Pravesh Dwivedi started the session and explained the importance of adopting Yoga in daily life. He said that Yoga not only reduced the risk of diseases but also enhances the growth and coordination between mind and body. It makes people aware of physical and mental diseases and finding solutions through asanas and breathing exercises. He encouraged the participant to adopt a holistic way of living. Dr Brijesh Singh Yoga expert at CSIR –TKDL, he provided brief and relational aspects of Yoga and psycho immunity, the barrier of psycho immunity, and the techniques of yoga to improve psycho immunity. He further explained the factors which affected by lack of psycho immunity that is physical health and excellence, vital health, mental health, social health, spiritual health. He further explained that Yoga is both a science and an art. Yoga is a graceful and methodical effort towards self- perfection inside and outside, yoga is the means for the fastest and the best growth and finally the goal itself hence, psycho immunity through the practices of yoga gets a quantum jump to the superlative degree of happiness and also all-around personality development at all levels physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Ms Anju Shah had explained the benefits of yoga she told that Yoga can connect people to nature, earlier people used to meditation through it; Yoga is also a medium to bring communities to close together to spend a day for health from a busy schedule. She further explained that in this pandemic situation people all over the world embracing the Yoga to fight social Isolation and depression during the pandemic, yoga can also play a significant role in psycho-social care and rehabilitation of Covid-19 patient in quarantine and isolation. She told that during the lockdown she had taught her colony children yoga ‘asanas’ so that young minds could get a better way of life instead of spending their time on social media. During the webinar, Ms Anju taught many Asana to the participant. 128 people got enrolled whereas attended 45. In the end Director, Dr.Pravesh Dwivedi gave a vote of thanks to the panelist who gave such a nice and interactive session and he also gave a vote of thanks to the participant who patiently listen to the session. In the end, team gave E-certificate to all the participants.

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