Bhubaneswar: Chandrasekharpur Yoga Zilla Kendra of Bharatiya Yoga Sansthan, Odisha has organised a two-week-long ‘Yoga & Moral Education Summer Camp for Children’.
The camp which began May 20 will conclude at Rail Vihar here May 31. More than 100 children and about 30 parents are attending the camp.
Suresh Kumar Mohapatra, Prant Pradhan, Pranbandhu Behera, Prant Mantri, Murlidhar Subuddhi, Prant Sangathan Mantri, Akshya Kumar Swain, Pramaya Reddy, BK Reddy, P Reddy, Prant Sadasya, Dasarathi Sethi and Pradeep Kumar Mohanty, Zilla Pradhan, Prabhat Kumar Satpathy and Rajkishor Acharya, Zilla Sangathan Mantri, Anita Acharya Pradhan and Radha Kumari, Kendra Pramukh are providing Yoga training to children.
HP Das, a motivational speaker and life coach, inaugurated the programme and delivered a motivational talk to the children.
Motivational speaker and corporate trainer Ram Kishor Sharma, Head, NCSCDA, Government of India, Bhubaneswar conducted a session on ‘Developing Ethical Moral Values’. The participating kids said that the session was interesting and participatory. Sharma used effective methodologies like moral stories, true success stories, slogans and self reflections brainstorming to make the session appealing.
Sharma started the session with ‘claps for parents, God, motherland and self’, which was enjoyed by all the children and their parents. He explained that we should respect our parents who gave birth to us, nurtured and sacrificed everything to fulfil our wishes and dreams. We should surrender to God in critical situations to gain divine power and energy, he added. We should contribute honestly to our motherland as a responsible citizen, he urged. “We should appreciate ourselves and our talent without comparing it with others’ as everyone is unique.” We should focus on self-audit, self-reporting, self-realisation, self-account, self-correction, self-initiation, self-motivation, self-contribution, self-confidence and self-learning, he stressed.
While narrating the success story of Jessica Cox, an American girl born without arms, Sharma pointed out that though the girl used to stumble upon two words— ‘cannot’ and ‘impossible’— she proved the pessimists wrong.
Jessica Cox graduated from the University of Arizona in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in communications. Cox has not used prosthetic arms since she turned 14. Using her feet as most people use their hands, she is able, among other things, to drive an unmodified car with an unrestricted license, to type on a keyboard at 25 words per minute, to pump her own gas, and to put in and remove her contact lenses. She is also a certified scuba diver.
Cox began training to become a pilot, after graduating, but it was not easy to find a flight instructor, who could teach her. It took three years to learn flying. In 2008, Cox was finally certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly an Ercoupe, a light sport aircraft.
While speaking about parenting, Sharma said nurturing children with moral and ethical values in this present generation is one of the biggest challenges.
Suresh Kumar Mohapatra, Prant Pradhan, Odisha urged all officials of Yoga Kendra of Odisha to replicate this unique initiative Bharatiya Yoga Sangathan across the country.
