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Yoga for women at AIMST
The document outlines a quality improvement program on yoga specifically for women, highlighting its benefits across various life stages. It emphasizes yoga's holistic approach to enhancing physical, emotional, and mental well-being while promoting self-awareness and resilience. Various yoga techniques and practices are presented to foster relaxation, stress relief, and personal empowerment, thus enabling women to fulfill their potential.
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- 1. AIMST QUALITY IMPROVEMENTPROGRAM YOGA for WOMEN Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani Director, CYTER of SBV, Pondicherry, India Dr Meena Ramanathan Deputy Director, CYTER of SBV, Pondicherry, India
- 2. Disclaimer We would liketo acknowledge and thank all those whose creations we have used through the known and unknown sources in our presentation
- 4. Life stages ofa woman Yuko TAKEDA. Understanding the Life Stages of Women to Enhance Your Practice. JMAJ 2010; 53(5): 273–278
- 6. Yoga: An Introduction •Yoga, an ancient cultural heritage of India is spreading rapidly; practiced by millions globally. • Offers a broader perspective of life and refines all round personality (purna purusha) • Enables the attainment of inherent potential of each individual in a holistic manner. • Yoga is not just a system of exercise but is a way of life, an attitude and a conscious lifestyle.
- 7. Benefits of yogafor women • Enhances awareness of body, emotions & mind • Improves dietary habits • Facilitate natural emanation of waste • Helps breathe calm & deep • Focuses mind inwards • Helps relax consciously • Fortifies against omnipresent stressors • Increases self-reliance & self-confidence • Promotes self-responsibility for health & happiness.
- 8. • Activates therelaxation response & reduces stress response/reaction • Helps cope stressors better – changed perception • Conscious self-effort leading to improved mood & sense of well-being (feel good hormones) • Enables us to move from a state of illness & disease to the state of health & well being • Enhances autonomic balance • Enhances the quality of adaptive resilience How yoga works
- 9. •Yama & Niyama- attitudinal training •Shat Kriyas - cleansing techniques •Jathis & Kriyas - energizes and harmonizes •Asanas – postures held with ease and comfort •Pranayama – extension & expansion of dimension of Prana •Mudras & Bandhas – seal & lock of neuromuscular energy •Meditation - hypometabolic state of wakeful consciousness Physical, Physiological, Psychological & Spiritual levels of existence Yogic Techniques
- 11. Yoga Practices forwomen Jathis Kriyas Asanas Pranayama Head Tala (upwards/ lateral) Trikona / Veera(I) Nadi shuddhi Hand/fingers Ardha & Kati chakra Meru Sadanta Legs Chatushpada Paschimatana/ Purvatana Mukha Bhastrika Torso twisting Nava (wailing) Vakra Pranava Hip rotation Baddhakona Dharmika Brahmari Walk on toes Pawanmuktha Supta Baddhakona Savitri Shake/throw Bhujanga Ardhashalabha
- 12. Breath-Body Awareness • Beginby sitting with your feet placed squarely on the floor toes facing straight forward. • Place your palms flat on your thighs, • Inhale and exhale evenly for six counts each.
- 13. Nada Bhavana ShuddhiKriya • Relive anxiety and tension from storehouses in the abdomen, chest and neck. Ha Ha, Ho Ho, He He ! • Become aware of the subconscious stresses induced by the survival mechanisms. Me Me ! • Enhance the cognitive, higher abilities of the intellect. Dhi Dhi ! • Throw out all tensions & become stress-free. Po Po ! • “BE”, yourself! Introspective Silence
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- 15. Trikona and MeruAsanas
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- 18. Seated Spinal Twist •Sit straight • Inhaling twist your upper body to the right, starting from the base of the spine. • You can place your left hand on the outside of your right thigh and your right hand on the back of your chair. • Exhaling untwist back to center • Repeat to the other side
- 19. Kaki mudra Hasyamudra
- 20. Uninostril / alternatenostril pranayamas Suryanadi asana Chandranadi asana
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- 23. Pada utana asanasPawanamuktha asanas
- 24. Contemplative Sitting Developing aninner quietness
- 25. Dr Meena Ramanathan,IDY 2018
- 26. Conclusion Yoga • Helps enhance‘beauty with brains’, a blessing that make them handle multiple responsibilities with proficiency & poise! • Balances mind & nourishes the soul. • Empowers women to become the ‘Shakti’ (energy), enabling her manifest her potentials to the best possible levels &beyond too!!!
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