YOGA OUTREACH 2023

Dreams Come True – Tamil Nadu

On 8th March, Atma Niranjan Yoga Vidyalaya celebrated the International Women’s Day with a yoga session at a home and free school for rural children in Thiruvallur, 60 km from Chennai. The women were very keen to continue with regular yoga sessions. The shivir was conducted by Sannyasi Yogasharan.

After the program many participants wanted to share their joyous experience with everyone. Tamil Selvi came forward and started crying. She said she was a single mother and her daughter who was studying in Class 3 in the Sevalaya school asked her to come. She is a tailor who uses her hands and legs too much and is in constant pain. Our pawanmuktasana series miraculously helped her get relief and our visualization helped her strengthen her resolve to stay healthy.

A young girl who is doing a short term course said, she never believed that she had any dreams. Our yoga practices helped her unearth her hidden vision of becoming an ethical entrepreneur and she could even visualize herself be one during the practice.

—Sannyasi Yogasharan

Ongoing projects are yoga sessions:

  • at the Sri Arunadhayam Charitable Trust, for children with special needs
  • at the Central Prison, Chennai
  • in Erode with tribal village children, through an online platform
  • for students at the Adiparasakthi Dental College, Anna University and the Agarwal Vidyalaya
  • in Thirunindravur village with the NGO Sevalaya for village women
  • In one of my yoga sessions with the corporation conservative workers and public conducted by Chennai corporation, I was contacted by a gentleman who was in a Safari suit. He introduced himself as a senior manager of the Conservative agency. He asked me whether I am the same yoga teacher from the Bihar School of Yoga tradition. I could not follow. He said that the support and practices provided had helped him to be where he was now. He did not want to divulge where we had met. Later he called me and said that he had been a convict in prison and regularly attended our yoga sessions. It was the sankalpa planted during meditation and yoga nidra that helped him renew his life. It was a special moment.

—Sannyasi Yogasharan