More than a dozen teachers belonging to Government and Non-Government schools are undergoing three-day yoga training here. Ahead of the International Day of Yoga on June 21, the Government has recruited expert yogis to impart yoga training to students and teachers in their respective schools. Other than preparing the staff and pupils for a mass yoga programme on Yoga Day, the training classes would also help them maintain good health,” said an official. The teachers are being imparted training to slowly bend forward and backward, to the right and left, with slow breathing exercises by master trainers, Baleshwar Yadav, Umakant Pandey, Dhaneshwar Ram and Neel Kusum Panna of the State Council of Educational Research and Training, Raipur.
Training for students would be held from June 16 to 20. On June 21, peoples’ representatives and school management committees along with the students would perform mass yoga during a national level programme in the town. The programme would commence simultaneously in all the schools of the town from 7.35 in the morning. It would include five minutes warm-up, 25 minutes yoga and five-minute relaxation poses in the end.