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India trip 2018 - Yoga/Meditation messages to students in colleges and schools

Namaste,

Hope you all are doing well and had a good summer break.

I just returned from a short trip to India.  One of the reasons I took this trip was to meet some of my long lost buddies during our Silver Jubilee Meet at NIT, Warangal.

During this trip, I had opportunity to visit many 'yoga' related places such as Ramakrishna Math, Bellur, Patanjali temple, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar Ashram etc.  I also had an opportunity to visit a few different colleges and schools and talk to students about many topics related to yoga/meditation, managing stress, leading a principle centered life with yamas/niyamas, focusing on quadrant-2 activities (Stephen Covey), applying four streams of yoga during all walks of your life, how to be successful in corporate life etc.  It was a wonderful feeling talking to all these students, conducting yoga classes, giving these messages, sponsoring yoga/meditation teachers and scholarships for schools students in my village etc.

I captured some of the above moments in this album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sn5d8m6YMPXP4PN77

(Please click on the photos to see the captions on some of the photos).

Now, back to the Bay Area and wonderful to be part of ICC Sevathon Yogathon today.

Wish you all a happy week ahead!
Thank you,
Shailesh

http://shaileshyoga.blogspot.com/
https://yogabharati.org/milpitas-classes

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  1. KishoreSeptember 22, 2018 at 11:44 AM

    Thanks for sharing. You are spreading the message across various age groups in variety of situations. Great to see that. Interesting to see a Patanjali temple too.

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