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March 2020, Issue-02 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in www.yogaiya.in A SELF-REGULATORY BODY OF YOGA ORGANISATIONS MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 THE OFFICIAL MONTHLY OF INDIAN YOGA ASSOCIATION 2ND Governing Council PURPOSE Meeting @ ISHA Reaching the message of Yoga based on traditional and scientific foundation Unifying the diverse traditions of Yoga Value 1 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in Contents Aims and Objectives...................................................................... 04 Letter to the Editor........................................................................ 06 Editor’s Note ................................................................................. 07 Publicity, Publication & PR - State Chapter Committee Meets............................................ 10 - Yoga Paramparas Revealed.................................................... 13 - Mark your Calendar............................................................... 14 - Yoga Events........................................................................... 15 - Pages from the Past............................................................... 17 - Legacy Series........................................................................ 23 Cover Story ..................................................................................... 19 Research Committee - Published Paper in American Diabetes Association ............ 25 - NMB Published Papers ........................................................ 26 Academics & Accreditation Committees - Membership Data ................................................................. 27 - Upcoming Batches (Certificate Course in Yoga) ................. 28 IYA Personnel Certification Body (PrCB)................................... 30 Office Addresses / State Chapter Committee Addresses ............. 31 Associate Centres ............................................................................ 33 International Associates ................................................................. 33 Member Institutions ....................................................................... 34 2 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in Presents Knowledge Conclave Investors Meet Public Session Exhibition 2nd WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AYURVEDA YOGA & NATUROPATHY www.ayuryogexpo.com # 9667178551 1-4 October 2020 [email protected] Activities: Bhakti Yoga l Bhajan Sandhya by different Organisations l Yogic Techniques in Bhakti Yog On this l Yamuna Arti & Sankalp Raja Yoga Krishnashthami l Yoga sessions with Yog Gurus l Yoga sessions in different traditions Jnana Yoga l Unravelling Bhakti Yoga l Scientific sessions by spiritual masters presents Karma Yoga l Kalayog Utsav With dance Braj Yog Kala Utsav programmes l Artfest- Painting Vrindavan city with beautiful murals 3 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in IYA Indian Yoga Association is a registered society, Registered under the Society Registration Act of 1860 bearing Registration No: Sl/63761/2008, Dated on 31st October, 2008 Yogrishi Swami Ramdev ji Maharaj is the Chairman of the Governing Council and Guruji Dr HR Nagendra is the President. Founded under the legendary Yogi Padma Vibhushan Late Dr BKS Iyengar ji, IYA is a maiden attempt to unite all yoga paramparas in a common cause. Indian Yoga Association is committed to promotion and advancement of Yoga and its applications around the world, a policy advocacy body in yoga and is an industry-cum-self- regulatory body to facilitate activities of its member institutions. Aims and Objectives l Promotion and advancement of Yoga and its l To bring certain amount of self discipline in applications. the operations of the Yoga Institutions l Maintaining and promoting the different l To conduct experiments and research on Indian Yoga traditions. emerging trends in Yoga. l To provide extensive research facilities for l To develop techniques and approaches based carrying out fundamental and clinical research on the Ancient Yoga Texts and Granthas of in the discipline of Yoga and its applications Yoga to meet the challenges of the modern era. keeping in view the socio-economic needs of all sections of the society. l Development and dissemination of new approaches to the practice, teaching and l To hold Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, research of yoga. Camps and Public meetings to propagate information and knowledge of Yoga, its l To prescribe different courses for various techniques and practice in various imparting education and training in Yoga; parts of India as well as abroad. to prescribe syllabus and curriculum for various Yoga education, Yoga therapy and l Accreditation and affiliation of Yoga Yoga training courses and programmes; Institutions including Prescribing of also to prescribe guidelines to carry out basic requirements for affiliation of Yoga research in Yoga and its applications at Institutions. various levels. 4 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in EDITORIAL Chief Editor Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani Copy Editor Shruti Prabhakar ART Designer Rajeev Kumar & Deepak Rawat PRODUCTION Production Manager Praveen Prabhakar Production Assistant Thrushal Sunman ADVERTISING, SUBSCRIPTION & CIRCULATIONS # 9999973450 [email protected] Published by Indian Yoga Association.This publication and its contents are protected by international copyright registered to publisher. Consequently, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form and by means without the prior written permission of Publisher. 5 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in Letter to the Editor We are glad to know that Indian Yoga Association has come up with monthly newsletter ‘Yogvani.’ Thanks for such a unique way of information. Sampadananda Mishra, Sri Aurobindo Society Yogvani is very informative and useful for Yogis, Yoga practitioners and Yoga lovers. Anil Gupta, [email protected] Dear Editor and Newsletter Team, Namaskar and congratulations for very very impressive YOGVANI, February 1st issue All the best. Haresh Trivedi, [email protected] 6 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in Editor’s Note Yoga: The Original Mind-Body Medicine Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani oga is the original mind- ( Editor-in-Chief ) body medicine that has enabled individuals to attain and maintain sukha and natural environment, a holistic lifestyle, sthanam, a dynamic sense of adequate bodywork through Asanas, Mudras and physical, mental and spiritual Kriyas, invigorating breath work through the use of wellbeing. Bhagavad-Gita Pranayama and the production of a healthy thought defines Yoga as samatvam meaning thereby that process through the higher practices of Jnana Yoga YYoga is equanimity at all levels, a state wherein and Raja Yoga. physical homeostasis and mental equanimity occur in a balanced and healthy harmony. Extensive research on Yoga being done all over the world has shown promise with regard to various Yogamaharishi Dr Swami Gitananda Giri Guru disorders and diseases that seem to be amiable Maharaj, the visionary founder of Ananda Ashram to Yoga therapy. It is well established that stress at the International Centre for Yoga Education and weakens our immune system. Scientific research Research (ICYER) in Pondicherry and one of the in recent times has showed that the physiological, foremost authorities on Yoga in the past century, psychological and biochemical effects of Yoga are has explained the concept of Yoga Chikitsa (Yoga of an anti-stress nature. Mechanisms postulated as a therapy) in the following lucid manner. “Yoga included the restoration of autonomic balance as Chikitsa is virtually as old as Yoga itself, indeed, well as an improvement in restorative, regenerative the ‘return of mind that feels separated from the and rehabilitative capacities of the individual. A Universe in which it exists’ represents the first healthy inner sense of wellbeing produced by a Yoga therapy. Yoga Chikitsa could be termed as life of Yoga percolates down through the different “man’s first attempt at unitive understanding of levels of our existence from the higher to the lower mind-emotions-physical distress and is the oldest producing health and wellbeing of a holistic nature. wholistic concept and therapy in the world.” Yoga understands the influence of the mind on To achieve this Yogic integration at all levels the body as well as that of the body on the mind. of our being, it is essential that we take into This is the principle of adhi-vyadhi elucidated in consideration the all-encompassing multi- the Yoga Vasishta more than 5000 years ago! It is dimensional aspects of Yoga that include the interesting that modern medicine has only realized following: a healthy life nourishing diet, a healthy this connection in the last hundred years whereas 7 MARCH 2020, ISSUE-02 www.yogaiya.in Yogic of India were teaching and practising it 5. Integrates body movements with the breath for thousands of years. No wonder Yoga may be thus creating psychosomatic harmony. In Yoga considered as the original mind-body medicine. the physical body is related to annamaya kosha (our anatomical existence) and the mind to We are what we think, yet we also start to think manomaya kosha (our psychological existence). that which we do. Yogic concepts and techniques As the pranayama kosha (our physiological enable the development of right attitudes towards existence sustained by the energy of the breath) life and enable us to correct the numerous internal lies in between them, the breath is the key to and external imbalances we suffer due to our wrong psychosomatic harmony. lifestyle/ genetic potential.
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