Examinations competitions making and maintaining friends, obeying rules and being disciplined can result in stress or tension. But not for a student of yoga. The Practice of various yogic techniques can prepare you to face life with relative ease. Yoga is not just doing asanas at the physical level. It is more to do with mind. Yoga is Awareness, concentration and Excellence. You can put it into practice in all your activities and experience joy and satisfaction. In this book you will not only find various yogic techniques but also concepts explained with the help of stories and games, to make learning interesting and enjoyable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayadeva Yogendra
Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra was the first born child of Shri Yogendra and Smt Sita Devi Yogendra. He was born in Bombay on 27th April 1929. He commenced his education at a Hindi primary school in Bombay, followed by an English Parsi School and garde college in Gujarat. Then he went to Wilson College in Bombay from where he completed his M.A. in Sanskrit and Prakrut. He stood first in the University and received the Bhagwandas Purshotamdas Prize for Sanskrit. He was also awarded the Hargobin das scholarship for PhD which was conferred upon him in 1955 and since then he is referred to as Dr. Jayadeva. After completing his Ph. D. Dr. Jayadeva worked as a lecture teaching Sanskrit to B. A. students for about on year at the Khalsa College Bombay. After that he has worked ceaselessly at the yoga Institute that was founded by his father. In 1958 he was appointed Principal of The Yoga Institute when the Government of Maharashtra gave special recognition to the Institute as a special teachers training Institute of Yoga and Yoga research. He was master minded many educational and the National centers of Educational Research and Training took his assistance in devising the national Yoga syllabus for schools. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Yoga which funded a research project highlighting the advantage of Yoga techniques in the treatment of disease. He was a polific writer and has authored several books and edited the mammoth Yoga Encyclopaedia series. He edited Yoga Today Yoga in Modern life, yoga Therapy in Asthma Diabetes and Heart Disease etc. He is at present the Editor of the journal Yoga and Total Health, which were founded in 1933. He is the present Director of the Yoga Institute and past President of the International Board of Yoga. He has endeared himself to thousands of his students by his self-effacing ways and ready guidance. Most of all he inspires all by his purity of life in which he practices what he preaches.
There are no reviews yet.