YOGA

YOGA COMPETITION FOR CHILDREN   J.K. SIVAN 

SREE KRISHNARPANAM SEVA TRUST, Nanganallur, on Sunday, 11th November, 2018 invited many children to exhibit their skills and training in Yoga exercises and it was a surprise to observe that some of the children were not more than 5 years and eagerly participated in the competition. Most of the children were girls is a matter for appreciation.

Learning Yoga is for both mental and physical well being of a person to lead a life of happiness, freed from stress,strain and illness. SKST gratefully acknowledges the voluntary assistance of the Yoga Master Sri P. N.Nagarajan for his keenness and efforts in encouraging children to learn Yoga and this ensured the success of the competition in identifying the skills of the participants.

Prizes in the form of cups and medals were issued to meritorious participants and certificates were issued by SKST to all participants. It is worth noting that a retired lady personnel of BSNL volunteered to teach a few exercises of the right way of performing the situps holding the ear lobes known as Thoppukarnam. She demonstrated it to children and made them do the exercise for about 15 times, explaining the super brain power derived out of it for memory improvement for children. As you are aware, the West has understood the significance of such yoga exercises better than us and educate their children to grow the right way.. Parents and teachers in our educational institutions should encourage the children to learn and practice regularly such beneficial exercises.

The participating children demonstrated the different types of Asanas learnt by them and the benefits derived out of them were explained to them by the Yoga teacher.

Three small children exhibited their skills in playing on keyboards also during the occasion.