Yoga Workshops, another Kota initiative to stop student suicides
The Kota district administration on Saturday, organised free Yoga Workshops for the coaching faculty members in Kota to keep teachers stress free. Isha Yoga Foundation, Coimbatore extended its free Yoga training workshop facilities to the coaching faculties in Kota. Around 2000 people including 1600 faculty members of different coaching institutes, 300 officials and 100 other people including doctors, social workers, media persons participated in the workshop. Swami Rijuda, the yoga instructor from Isha Yoga Foundation, taught various techniques of Yoga to 1100 faculty and staff members of Allen Career Institute.
Another free workshop was conducted at the Urban Improvement Trust (UIT) Kota auditorium in which around 500 faculty members from Resonance Institute, Vibrant Academy, Motion Academy and others participated. In both the workshops, Swami Rijuda (B.Tech from NIT Trichy) said that practicing 5 to15 minutes Yoga daily can help achieve internal happiness, which people strive for in the external World.
Vasuveer Singh, a Physics faculty member at Vibrant Academy, said, “Yoga techniques will help teachers increase their concentration in teaching which will eventually be beneficial to students.” Vasant Thakur another faculty member at Motion Institute, said, “Teachers can also educate students about Yoga which can be used in de-stressing themselves.”
District Collector, Kota, Dr. Ravi Kumar Surpur, said, “Life is full of challenges and a five minute Yoga workout daily can lead to mental and physical strength needed to face these challenges. As thousands of students flock to Kota from all over the country for coaching, joining them with Yoga can fill them with the much needed positive energy and mental peace leading them to a right direction.”
Meanwhile, several coaching institutes of Kota have already started organising yoga training activities for its students, after the district administration’s guidelines. Such moves have been taken to keep in check the rising stress among coaching students, and spurt in suicides cases.