On the Mahatma Gandhi’s and lal Bahadur Sashtri’s birthdays, SAKAR, a city-based NGO, conducted a yoga and diabetes awareness programme, sponsored by Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, in Ganjam district.
The camp was held at five centres on October 2. Meetings were started with prayers followed by yoga postures like Surya Namaskar, asana, pranayam and meditation at Satya Sai Dhyana Mandali, Aum Yoga centre, Jai Sitaram Yoga Kendra, Neelakanteswar temple and Radhakrishna Pathagara premises.
Dr Rama Krushna Dash, SN Sahu, Ananda Rao, lalita and SP Adinarayan graced the occasion as guest speakers and discussed about how to mitigate diabetes through yoga. They also said that diabetes can be cured by changing the life style and regulating food habits.
Yoga experts Ramakrishna Dash and teacher K Vijaya Bhaskar and instructors P lakshmi Narayana Senapati, Padmanabha Sahu, Rajendra Kumar Sahu and Pitabaso Biswal imparted yoga lessons among the participants. SP Adinarayan visited all the five centres to co-ordinate the process and gave some live demonstrations. He also gave introductory talks at three centres. Swaroopa Rani, secretary of SAKAR, gave introductory talks at two centres.
The objectives of the programme were to create awareness about the effectiveness of yoga in prevention and management of diabetes and to promote adoption of yoga for physical, mental, emotional health benefits.