National Level Webinar on Yoga Day for Emotional Balance

Name of the Event	National Level Webinar Theme: Yoga for Emotional Balance 21 June, 2020
Orgnized by	The NSS and NCC Units of Mahatma Night Degree College of Arts and Commerce
Resource Person	Ms. Shilpa S. Ghone, a senior yoga practitioner who has 14 years of experience as a yoga teacher. Shilpa S. Ghone was associated with Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, Mumbai, and has chosen yoga as her way of life
Date & Time of the Program	21st June, 2020 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Venue	Webinar link To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/wny-pmkz-uqw Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 631-898-6482 and enter this PIN: 399 751 548# WhatsApp link to receive the link and feedback form Open this link to join my WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GfkzXj1bLz5J4n5XQRDJqW Please join the webinar and benefit from it! Registration is free. Click here for registration: https://forms.gle/MQcMJjrb8EC33mpW6
No of Participants	190 participants through Google Meet joined in the Yoga Day Webinar
Objective	The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown period has increased stress and anxiety levels among people. Practsing yoga will help in reducing stress and maintaining an emotional balance. The objective of the webinar was to bring out the importance of yoga for emotional balance by giving information about various yoga asanas for maintaining emotional balance and by conducting a breathing exercise workshop for stress relief
No of Beneficiary	190 people in the community comprising of NSS volunteers, students, NSS programme officers, teachers, parents etc

The webinar started with the Mumbai University song. This was followed by a video sharing PM Shri Narendara Modi’s message on Yoga Day.

UN Theme for IDY International Day of Yoga :
“Yoga for Health, Yoga – Yoga at Home”
PM Modi’s Message: “Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family.”
Yoga for immunity, Anulom, Vilom, Pranayam

IDY International Day of Yoga has brought all the nations together and together we have to build our immunity to fight this Covid-19 pandemic.

By using a power point presentation resource person Ms. Shilpa S Ghone explained the importance of Yoga and its impact on the mind, body and spirit of a human being. Yoga should be a way of life where we respect the mind body and spirit and are conscious of our breathing.
Ms. Shilpa S Ghone conducted a breathing exercise where she stressed on the importance of concentrating on the breath that goes in and comes out. She taught us to see the pause between breathing in and breathing out. Every one who had joined in the webinar participated in this breathing exercise. They realised how they could use their lungs to full capacity and bring in positive energy into the body. Something as simple as breathing correctly and consciously is a stress relieving exercise.

The webinar ended with a vote of thanks proposed by Ms. Parveen.