Date: 25th June 2022
Venue: Online (G meet)
Name of Co-ordinator: Dr. Joan Lopes
Total Number of students and faculty: 51
Resource Person: Prof. Sujata Kulkarni

Objective: To encourage the students to participate and showcase their interest in the celebration of “International Yoga Day”.

The International Day of Yoga has been celebrated across the world annually on June 21 since 2015, following its inception in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual practice which originated in ancient India. The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in his UN address in 2014, had suggested the date of June 21, as it is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and shares a special significance in many parts of the world. International Yoga Day was celebrated St. Teresa’s Institute of Education on 25th June 2022. The event was organised by FY.B.Ed students and was co-ordinated by Dr. Joan Lopes. The programme was conducted through Google Meet with Prof. Sujata Kulkarni being the Resource Person for the session.

Prof. Sujata Kulkarni is a Professor at St. Gonsalo Garcia College for Economics, English and Marathi. She has been teaching yoga since 2004 and has rich knowledge about it. The event was started by a peaceful assembly conducted by Drizel and Iram. The assembly included a short prayer followed by a peaceful hymn. Drizel then explained briefly about International Yoga Day and showed a video regarding the same. She later introduced our resource person, Prof. Sujata Kulkarni. Prof Sujata Kulkarni started the programme by a brief introduction about yoga. Students started their Yoga day with a warm-up session as guided by Prof Sujata Kulkarni. Warm up session included small exercises like rotating neck and limbs and few breathing exercises. After the warm up session Prof. Sujata guided the students with different type of asana. All the students switched on their cameras and were performing yoga with Prof. Sujata.

While performing Yoga she was simultaneously explaining the students about the benefits of theses asanas. She helped the students understand about the specific asanas meant for specific areas of our body. Prof. Sujata made the students perform Vajrasan which is meant to be done after having food as it helps in digestion. She performed various asanas like Vrikshasan. Parvatasan, Trikonasan, Dandasan, Mandukasan, Ustrasan, Bhujangasan, Shavasan etc. At the end she guided the students to perform breathing exercises like Pranayama and Anulom vilom. All the students performed yoga with great interest along with Prof. Sujata Kulkarni. After the session, few students gave good feedbacks about the session. The programme was winded up by a Vote Of Thanks by Drizel and Dr. Joan Lopes.