{"id":129246,"date":"2020-06-22T02:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=129246"},"modified":"2020-06-22T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:11:50","slug":"rgu-conducts-webinar-on-yogic-interventions-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/rgu-conducts-webinar-on-yogic-interventions-for-health\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU conducts webinar on yogic interventions for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Jun 21:<\/strong> The physical education department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here conducted a two-day international webinar themed &#8216;Yogic interventions for health and wellbeing during the time of Covid-19 pandemic&#8217; to mark the International Day of Yoga (IDY), from Saturday.<br \/>\nIn the first session, Dr Rakesh Tomar from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Chemical, Saudi Arabia, made a presentation on mental fitness and stress management, and on different interventions and methods.<br \/>\nStating that &#8220;stress should be converted to motivation,&#8221; Dr Tomar cited the example of players like Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, who, he said, converted stress to motivation.<br \/>\nDoubts and misconceptions regarding mental health and stress in daily life were cleared during discussions among the participants.<br \/>\nIn the second session, Dr Laxminarayan Joshi from Uttarakhand-based Sanskrit University in his presentation titled &#8216;Yoga alignment: A science of fitness&#8217; shared his expertise in &#8220;theoretical aspects of body alignment&#8221; and demonstrated proper body alignment.<br \/>\nThe session focused on treatment of chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, sciatica and spondylitis through specifically-designed yogic practices.<br \/>\nEarlier, RGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha spoke on &#8220;the health benefits of yogic sciences as part of our lifelong journey,&#8221; and acting registrar, Prof Tomo Riba emphasized that &#8220;in the present situation, we should be active by practicing yoga at home.&#8221;<br \/>\nRGU Pro-VC, Prof Amitava Mitra spoke about the benefits of yoga in maintaining mental and spiritual health.<br \/>\nDr Amy Wheeler from the State University of California, USA, dwelt on the importance of yogic science and philosophy through her presentation titled &#8216;Yoga, youth and hope for our future&#8217;.<br \/>\nRGU&#8217;s Physical Education Head (in-charge), Dr Anil Mili also spoke.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, the RGU fraternity celebrated the IDY in the university campus.<br \/>\nThe programme started with paying of homage and floral tributes to the fallen heroes of Galwan Valley, Ladakh.<br \/>\nForty-five minutes of &#8216;common yoga protocol&#8217;, led by a yoga expert, was performed on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Jun 21: The physical education department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here conducted a two-day international webinar themed &#8216;Yogic interventions for health and wellbeing during the time of Covid-19 pandemic&#8217; to mark the International Day of Yoga (IDY), from Saturday. In the first session, Dr Rakesh Tomar from the King Fahd University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}