YOGA OUTREACH 2023
From February to June 2023, an online outreach program was conducted by Sannyasis Surya Shakti and Manoroopa for a group of 20 people. The age range of the group was from 28 to 78, two participants joined from the USA, and among the 20 participants were two men. Five spokes of the yoga chakra were covered. Each one-hour session included 15 to 20 minutes of theory, followed by 2 or 3 asanas performed with the awareness of the koshas. Pranayama practice started with the yogic breathing and subsequently lead to nadi shodhana. The class ended with a meditation or yoga nidra practice.
The focus was on the ‘why’ of Chapter 2 and how it differed from Chapter 1. Through the theory and practices we encouraged the participants to ‘live’ yoga from moment to moment by including different modules into their daily routine.
Over the course of 20 weeks, it became clear that some of the ‘tools’ that we had covered, were becoming a part of their lives such as Review of the Day, Spiritual Diary, antar mouna, ajapa japa and yoga nidra.
Feedback of participants
I am very grateful for having been a part of your yoga sessions over the past few months. The journey has been structured very nicely to help progress towards an easier way of living through self-awareness and management. I found the practice of annamaya kosha, pranamaya kosha and manomaya kosha focus for the asanas very useful and insightful, and it has helped make the asanas feel progressively easier. I found the exercise of recalling incidents of the past week/day and reflecting on how I could have handled situations better, very helpful. Thank you for this journey.
—Mehala Kumar