Yoga Seminar in Tusula, Finland
I was invited to give a yoga seminar in Tusula (Finland) on the 7th of March 2009. The seminar was organised by Kerava High School as an extra-curricular activities of the students. There were about 26 young students all in all who were very curious and enthusiastic to learn something about yoga. The seminar was held in one retreat in the town of Tusula.
I gave a presentation about the relation between asanas and vegetarian diet. After that, I gave another presentation on the science of Mantra which the students paid very much attention, too. They asked few questions about the mantra and asked me also to demonstrate some difficult asanas poses. When I did them, they were laughing and could not wait to do them themselves.
After the lecture, I taught them some breathing exercises and some warm-ups and then followed by some asanas. The young students were giggling and laughing while doing them and some were complaining in a funny way that it was difficult for them to bend their bodies. I could see that they were really enjoying by being noisy and giggling with each other. They requested me to demonstrate more asanas which I did so and they tried to follow them.
At the beginning of the asana practice, the students were really noisy and restless but in the middle of the program they calm down and became concentrated with what they were doing. As a teacher, I could see that from the restless mode, these young students became calm and concentrated after doing more asanas .
When we were done, I taught them self-massage followed by deep relaxation. When I tried to make them get up to sit in lotus position for the meditation, many of the students just wanted to keep lying and expressed that they just really wanted to lie down more because they really felt so good and relaxed.
Anyway, I convinced them to get up for the meditation by saying that meditation will relax them even more. And so we sang Baba Nam Kevalam first and then we did meditation. The yoga seminar lasted for 4 hours.
I gave a presentation about the relation between asanas and vegetarian diet. After that, I gave another presentation on the science of Mantra which the students paid very much attention, too. They asked few questions about the mantra and asked me also to demonstrate some difficult asanas poses. When I did them, they were laughing and could not wait to do them themselves.
After the lecture, I taught them some breathing exercises and some warm-ups and then followed by some asanas. The young students were giggling and laughing while doing them and some were complaining in a funny way that it was difficult for them to bend their bodies. I could see that they were really enjoying by being noisy and giggling with each other. They requested me to demonstrate more asanas which I did so and they tried to follow them.
At the beginning of the asana practice, the students were really noisy and restless but in the middle of the program they calm down and became concentrated with what they were doing. As a teacher, I could see that from the restless mode, these young students became calm and concentrated after doing more asanas .
When we were done, I taught them self-massage followed by deep relaxation. When I tried to make them get up to sit in lotus position for the meditation, many of the students just wanted to keep lying and expressed that they just really wanted to lie down more because they really felt so good and relaxed.
Anyway, I convinced them to get up for the meditation by saying that meditation will relax them even more. And so we sang Baba Nam Kevalam first and then we did meditation. The yoga seminar lasted for 4 hours.
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