Kids' visit to the Bank

As a part of the overall personality development of the Yoga children, organized by the Pathanjali Yoga Shiskhana Samithi (Regd) Karnataka, they were taken to one of the Nationalised Banks near their place. The children were accompanied by their main Yoga Master and four other yoga teachers along with the President of the Branch.



The children were highly enthusiastic about their visit to the Bank. The Sr. Manager at the Canara Bank was kind enough to explain to them how a Bank functions and its role in the society for financial purpose, in simple words. Interestingly they noted down the points and asked several questions which came up in their young minds.





The older children even enquired about the possibilities of getting Bank loans for their higher studies.



Surprisingly, at the end of his talk, most of the children had started pondering over an idea of saving their pocket money wisely by starting a saving bank account as early as possible.



The children were beyond words to express their gratitude for providing them such an informative visit, and opening their mind into a new world.

Kids enjoy yoga in summer vacation

To our great astonishment, the attendance of the kids did not go down, instead it raised. They were present 15 minutes before their scheduled time, forgoing their early morning sleep on holidays.







They were in high spirits and eagerly look forward to learn yoga. They had fun time like telling stories and playing games after the yoga class.

Yoga for the Children

Sri Pathanjali Yoga Sikshana Samithi (Regd) Karnataka, decided to start a FREE Yoga Program for the children between the ages of 12 and 18 years, in all their 325 centres, during the summer vacation. The program was inaugurated on 15th April 2009, immediately after the New Year of some States of India which was on the 14th April. The kids were too happy to get introduced to a new beginning of the New Year.

These are some of the photos from one of the centres. The inauguration program started with a prayer.





The main Yoga teacher addressed the program.














The chief guests gave a small lecture to the kids about yoga and its benefits. The kids listened to it with utmost attention and enthusiasm.



The inauguration of the program came to an end, with the distribution of prasadam. The kids got disbursed from the inauguration ceremony, with new spirit and enthusiasm to start a new beginning, and a better way to enjoy their vacation.



The yoga program for the kids will come to an end on the 6th May, and immediately after that the Samithi is planning to take them for a Yoga camp at Shiddarabetta (Tumkur District of Karnataka).

Mathru Bojan for Yoga students

For Mathru Bojan, all the Yoga students of the branch, prepare some food which can be served to other members in the form of a small ball. No plate is given.Usually the food is like sweet pongal, kara pongal, puliyogere, bisibele bath, curd rice, payasam etc, in a semi-solid consistency, so that it can easily be taken with the hand and made a ball, which is served to all the members with lots of joy and affection. The concept of the Mathru Bojan is that when we were young how our mothers used to give us food so lovingly telling amusing stories and asking us to see the moon. Enjoying that affection the kid takes food without a fuss. Hence, Mathru Bojan is organized in all the branches once in a way with the purpose of uniting all the yoga students and their families together, just like a single family.



Yoga Guru Sri Ramaswamy

Sri Pathanjali Yoga Sikshana Samithi - Yoga Class

Sri Pathanjali Yoga Sikshana Samithi (Regd) Karnataka was founded by Sri A.R. Ramaswamy in 1980 at Tumkur, Karnataka State, South India. He is more popularly known as Ramaswamy Anna among his Yoga friends. He was inspired by eminent Yoga Gurus Padmasri Dr BKS Iyengar, Sri Mallyadi halli Raghavendra Swamy and Sri Ajith Kumar.

With a great mission in mind, Sri Ramaswamy started this yoga centre which offers free yoga training to the aspiring yoga students, to make more and more people lead a healthy and happy life by practising yoga as a part of their life. Today the Samithi has more than 325 Yoga teaching branches, most of them are in Karnataka. More than 10 lakhs of families have already got benefitted from his vision.

Sri Ramaswamy visits each branch of this Samithi and makes sure they are working satisfactorily.

These are some of the photos during one such visit to one of the branches in Bangalore. When he visits the Yoga branch, he demonstrates the yoga asanas to the students and corrects them, if he finds any one doing it "not-so-right-way".

























His visit is usually followed by "Chandini"programme and "Mathru Bhojan".
More photos can be seen shortly.