| Directorate of Sports and Physical Education, JU Organizes one day Workshop on Yoga | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: The Directorate of Sports and Physical Education, University of Jammu organized a one-day Yoga workshop at Girls Hostel University of Jammu. Around 200 participants participated in the Yoga session for students of different Girls’ Hostel including PriyaDarshani Girls Hostel, Sarojani Naidu Girls Hostel and Chander Bhaga Girls Hostel and the warden of the Hostel Respectively University of Jammu and Prof. Shashi Manhas was the Special Guest of the occasion.
Prof. Shashi Manhas in his address stressed upon the importance of yoga for mental and spiritual health and urged the participants to make yoga a part of their daily course as it helps one to realize one’s potential to the fullest. Yoga is a discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living. Yoga leads to perfect harmony between mind and body, man and nature, individual consciousness and universal consciousness.
The welcome address was presented by Dr. Daud Iqbal Baba, Director, Directorate of Sports and Physical Education, University of Jammu. In his address, Dr. Daud welcomed the Special guest, and other invited guests including warden Prof. HardeepChahal Hod Commerce, Dr. Palvi Sachdeva Warden Priyadarshni Girls Hostel, Dr. ChinmeyMaharan Warden Sarojani Naidu Girl Hostel and Ms. Anjali Sharma Chander Bhaga Girls Hostel and participants of today’s session and laid emphasis on various aspects of Yoga.
Dr. Daud Iqbal Baba Director, in his message to the participants, highlighted the importance of yoga for well-being and also said that practising yoga cannot only be an effective stress reliever, but also a way to ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. By transferring focus and attention to the body and breath, yoga can help to temper anxiety while also releasing physical tension.
The Yoga session was conducted by Sh. Sanjeev Kumar, Teaching Assistant of the Department of Yoga and Mr. Sandeep Sharma.
The formal proceedings and vote of thanks was carried out by Dr. Mandeep Singh, Assistant Professor Department of Physical Education.
Others present there were Mr. Gagan Kumar, Mr. Jai Bharat, S. Harinder Pal Singh and Mr. Ashok Singh Bali. |
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