Yoga in Pondicherry, India

May 30, 2004

YOGANJALI NATYALAYAM Conducts One Month SUMMER INTENSIVE YOGA AND BHARATANATYAM CLASSES for the Youth of Pondicherry, India

YOGANJALI NATYALAYAM, Pondicherry’s premier Institute of Yoga, Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music conducted a One Month-Summer Intensive Yoga and Bharatanatyam Course. This course has been conducted for the past seven years and this year was started on the 3rd May. The classes were held from 9am to 12noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the entire month. This course received excellent response and nearly 100 students enrolled for the yoga classes while more than 60 enrolled for the classes in Bharatanatyam.

This special course also featured a Three-day Residential Yoga Youth Camp from 24th to 26th May at ICYER (International Centre for Yoga Education and Research) near Pondicherry for 60 students. Here the children were exposed to the Yogic way of life in Ananda Ashram. This also gave the children an opportunity to practice Yoga in a natural setting on the beach at sunrise as well as to enjoy the pleasure of a bonfire on the beach under the moonlight.

This has been a golden opportunity for the children to interact with the director and chairman of Yoganjali Natyalayam Kalaimamani Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani and Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani who personally guided the course. Assisting them were the faculty of Yoganjali Natyalayam including Yogacharini Devasena Bhavanani, Sri C Shanmugam, Smt Lalitha Shanmugam and Smt Saroja. The Intern Yogacharya from ICYER, Yogacharya Maythili Sharan, who has completed the Six month International Yoga Teachers Training Course also assisted them.

Yoganjali Natyalayam is the cultural branch of Yoga Jivana Satsangha (International) and has been in existence for the past 11 years. It is a continuation of the Sri Kambliswamy Fine Arts programme started by Yogamaharishi Dr Swami Gitananda Giri in 1975. Puduvai Kalaimamani, Yogamani, Natya Yogacharini Smt Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani is the Director while Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani is the Chairman. Yoganjali Natyalayam is the only institute in Pondicherry that has been conducting Spectacular Dance Dramas such as Kamba Ramayanam,

Andal, Nandanar, Meenakshi Kalyanam, Nala-Damayanthi, Karaikal Ammaiyar and Kannappa Nayanmar for the past ten years in addition to our infotaining Annual Day extravaganza.

It is note worthy that the National Best Child Awardees for 2000, 2001 and 2002; Miss M Niraimathy , Miss N Ramya and Master Ilaval are students of Yognat. Yognat also offers a Nine Year Part-Time Diploma in Yoga and Bharatanatyam for those interested in pursuing these arts to a greater level along with their academic education.

For Further Details Contact:

Yogi C Shanmugam

General Manager

YOGANJALI NATYALAYAM

25, 2nd Cross, Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry –13

Tel: 2241561 Mobile: 98423 11433 e-mail: yognat2001

Web site; http://www.geocities.com/yognat2001/yognat

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

MBBS, ADY, DSM, DPC, PGDFH

Chairman

Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER

25,2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry-605 013