Annual India Yoga Festival in Rishikesh

[Guest guest]

If anyone wants to attend this festival, which I did in 2004, Gurmukh

of Golden Bridge Yoga leads a yatra there every year. You can contact

her by googling her studio.

 

If others in this attend this festival, or lead yatras to

there, please feel free to post how yogis can contact you for next

year. If you're leading other India yatras, please also post an

invitation to kundalini-yoga .

 

Blessings,

Amar Atma

 

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Yoga festival attracts foreign tourists in large numbers

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Rishikesh, March 2 (ANI): The ongoing International Yoga Festival at

Rishikesh is drawing a large number of foreign tourists.

 

The seven-day long festival that started on March 1 has been jointly

organised by Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board and Parmarth

Niketan Ashram.

 

The festival was first organised in 2001 and since then it is being

held every year.

 

A large number of visitors are coming every year to attend the yoga

sessions and perform yoga exercises.

 

" The environment is such that people can learn, enjoy and also listen

to speeches of big people. There is serious study and exposure, " said

Birju Mehta, a visitor.

 

The participants said that attending the festival has been an

enriching experience for them.

 

" I am coming from Singapore. This is my eighth Yoga Festival. I have

been coming here since it started in 2001. It has been a real gift and

it is very important for me to come here every year because for me as

Swamiji says, it is like coming home, " said Rebecca, a tourist from

Singapore.

 

The festival is held on the banks of the river Ganga, it offers a wide

variety of yoga including Kundalini Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Reiki,

Pranayama, Power Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Pranic Healing, Music Therapy, Yoga

Therapy, Nada yoga, Meditation and special satsangs.

 

The question-answer sessions with prominent exponents of Yoga are one

of the highlights of the Yoga Week.

 

" Our aim is to make people aware about yoga, which is an inherent part

of our culture. Yoga is helpful not just for physical health, but it

also helps to overcome a number of mental problems like stress,

depression, frustration, " said Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President

and Spiritual Head of the Parmarth Niketan.

 

The Yoga festival has been uniting people of different cultures and

faiths as it promotes the unity of the body, mind and soul. (ANI)