Seminars
ONE DAY SEMINAR ON YOGA AND MEDITATION: ART OF LIVING
REPORT
ONE DAY
SEMINAR
ON
YOGA AND MEDITATION: ART OF LIVING
Organized by
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
LUCKNOW PUBLIC COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (LPCPS)
(Affiliated to University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India)
Vinamra Khand, (Near Kathauta Lake) Gomti Nagar, Lucknow
September 07, 2024
02:30 PM onwards
Introduction
A One Day Seminar on Yoga and Meditation: Art of Living is designed to introduce participants to the transformative power of yoga and meditation in cultivating a balanced, healthy, and fulfilling life. Drawing from ancient wisdom and modern practices, the seminar explores the philosophy and techniques behind yoga and meditation, emphasizing their role in enhancing physical health, mental clarity, emotional stability, and spiritual growth. Attendees will learn essential yoga postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation practices that promote relaxation, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being. The seminar also highlights the practical application of these practices in everyday life, teaching how to integrate mindfulness, awareness, and self-discipline into daily routines. Through guided session, group discussion, and self-reflection, participants will gain tools to cultivate a deeper sense of peace, purpose, and connection, making yoga and meditation not just practices, but a way of living harmoniously.
INVITED SPEAKER
Ms. Priyanka
(Yoga Trainer)
Ms. Priyanka spoke that By learning the art of dropping the effort through yoga, one experiences the state of being in total alignment with infinity. Yoga can bring about complete balance in one’s personality. It holds out the promise of many solutions that today’s behavioral sciences are looking for. Yoga is the way for human potential to blossom to its fullest, a path to attain the highest goal of uniting with the infinity.
The purpose of yoga
Ms. Priyanka spoke that Patanjali, the propounder of yoga, enunciates, “The purpose of yoga is to stop misery before it comes.” Whether it is greed, anger, jealousy, hatred, or frustration, all these negative emotions can be healed or re-oriented through yoga.
“Yogah Karmasu Kaushalam”, meaning yoga is a skill in action and expression. Yoga is the skill to live your life, manage your mind, deal with emotions, be with people, be in love, and not let that love turn into hatred. In this world everyone loves, but that love does not stay the same for long. It turns into hatred, sometimes almost immediately. Yoga is that skill, that perspective, that maintains love as love.
A Brief History of Yoga
Ms. Priyanka spoke that In the hierarchy of Vedic knowledge, there are four Vedas – Rigveda, Samveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda, followed by four Upavedas or sub-Vedas – Ayurveda, Arthaveda, Dhanurveda, and Gandharvaveda. Further down the line are six upangas or components – Shiksha, Kalpa, Vyakarana, Nirukta, Chandas, and Jyotisha. These are further classified into six sub-components – Nyaya, Vaiseshika, Sankhya, Mimansa, Vedanta, and Yoga.
Even during the Indus-Saraswati civilization (dating to 2700 BC), several seals and fossils have been found, with figures performing Yoga. This suggests that yoga was known and practiced even in those early stages of civilization. Read more about the origins of yoga here.
The benefits of yoga are multifold