Bengaluru’s best-loved yoga schools and yogis are coming together at this festival at the UB City amphitheatre
Yogis at Ub city in a specially shot photograph
Come June 21, over 600 yogis from all over the city will come together to celebrate the first World Yoga Day. Bengaluru’s best-loved yoga schools and yogis are coming together at this festival at the UB City amphitheatre. Besides yoga classes, pranayam and chanting workshops; as well as Bharatnatyam recital, there will also a jugalbandhi of Indian and Western musical forms, since it is also the World Music Day on the same day. The UN International Yoga Day was adopted after PM Narendra Modi termed yoga as India's gift to the world.
While PM Modi will be doing surya namaskars in front of 40,000 people in Delhi, following suit are Bengaluru’s popular yoga gurus, institutes, yoga practitioners and enthusiasts coming together under one roof to celebrate over live music and flea markets to help you kickstart your morning on a health note. There will also be a Sante with stalls selling yoga accessories and organic products; while the cafes at UB City serve healthy brunch after you’re done with the asanas and stretches.
Sharing how yoga has come a full circle , with millions taking to it as a way of life Yoga, Neetu Singh and Manish Pole of Total Yoga are doing their bit to transform the body and mind with the 6,000 year-old physical, mental and spiritual practice. “I will be doing total yoga styles over live music for 40 minutes. There are different yoga sessions and at the end there will be a lot of sessions and there will be dance and music performances, as it is also World Music Day,” reveals Neetu. Manish who will be taking live music with pranayam sessions, chips in adding, “We want to spread the yoga lifestyle in its right light. It will also be a great place to network with the yoga community under one roof and bring about the feeling of oneness.”
Radhika Chaliha, founder Kiki’s yoga and co-founder Yoga Mat-ters who made a crossover to becoming an entrepreneur after a corporate stint and serves nourishing food, teaches yoga, massages, seva for community, social activism and organises yoga retreats and adventure effuses, “Yoga is versatile and is still alive and evolving even after 6,000 years with newer forms. On World Yoga Day, I’m doing acro yoga or acro vinyasa to help focus on breathing and unlike regular yoga, here everyone works out with a partner.
The 30-minute session will help in reaching out with a larger group. After a demo, I will teach the techniques of acro yoga, which is currently a rage and will combine classical hatha yoga, acrobatics and traditional Thai yoga with a blend of Western and Indian influences. It will be an experiential play without any sense of competition from any other schools as we are all sharing and growing together for a common cause.”
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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