Govt of Maharashtra serious on the implementation of yoga & education

Issues GR to encourage all state teachers to attend international conference on Yoga & Education organised by the Kaivalyadhama 

Department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra has issued GR to incentivise teachers to attend ‘International yoga conference – Yoga & Education’ organised by the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute to be held between December, 27 to 30, 2015 in Lonavala. The conference will be inaugurated by Suresh Prabhu, Railway Minister of India, Guest of Honour will be Minister of Ayush, Shripad Naik. The International Yoga Conference is an ideal platform to discuss the Government of India’s initiative to make the practice of yoga popular among school children and to train the teachers in yoga. 

Speaking on the same, Subodh Tiwari Joint Director-Administration, Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute said, “At Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute our ultimate goal is to see yoga as an inherent part of every curriculum all over the world. We are very happy with the support of both the Government of India and the Government of Maharashtra in our endeavor.”

Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute’s ‘International Yoga Conference – Yoga & Education’ will see prominent names from the various fields of yoga come together to discuss and explore practical and realistic means to incorporate yoga as an integral agendas of educators. Some of the speakers at the Conference are Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, Asst Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Göran Boll, Swedish yoga teacher/therapist and Founder of MediYoga, Jyoti Bajaj Director of The Yoga Kids, Canada, Dr Latha Satish, Managing Trustee, KYM, Chennai, amongst others.

Some the issues to be discussed at the three day conference will be; Yoga in Schools – process, efforts and implementation, experiential paradigm of yoga in education, difficulties in implementing yoga in school education, making traditional yoga relevant today amongst others.

Source | http://www.financialexpress.com

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Pralhad Jadhav

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