MYSORE: Yoga Dasara, an event during the famous Dasara festival in Mysore, will focus on exercises to protect practitioners from swine flu.
Yoga teachers from various institutions, who will conduct classes in 70 localities including parks, junctions and orphanages, apart from the Dasara exhibition and Curzon park will emphasise on yogic kriyas such as Jala neeti, Sutra neeti, Vamana and Kapala bathi to improve respiratory functions, cure lung infections and develop immunity.
At a time, when the fear of swine flu has gripped the common man and made hoteliers skeptical about tourist turn out; the promise of Yoga Dasara could indeed redeem Dasara. Prominent city-based Yoga masters, who have students across the globe, will conduct 77 camps from September 5 to 21.
Yoga Dasara will be inaugurated on September 20. On that day, hundreds of practitioners will perform Suryanamaskara in front of the Mysore Palace. This will be followed by a yoga conference, addressed by eminent scholars and yogis. There will also be lectures and demonstrations of 40 different yoga series. The Yoga teachers, who have successfully started lessons for mahouts and tribal families accompanying the Dasara elephants, are keen to conduct yoga and pranic healing classes in Muslim orphanages.