Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Objective And Significance of Yoga in Education | Health Benefits from the Regular practice of Asanas

  Objective And Significance of Yoga in Education 



Yoga can supplement school and university education. It can prepare the students physically and mentally for the integration of their physical, mental and spiritual faculties so that the students can become  healthier, saner and more integrated member of the society and of the nation.
Yoga education helps in self-discipline and self-control, leading to immense amount of awareness, concentration and higher level of consciousness. Briefly the aims and objectives of yoga education are :

1) To enable the student to have good health.

2) To possess emotional stability.

3) To integrate moral values.

4) To attain higher level of consciousness.

5) To practice mental hygiene.

All these objectives could be dealt with in an integrated manner. 
Yoga education could help to equip oneself with basic knowledge about one's personality, to learn to handle oneself well in all life situation, to learn techniques of gaining good health, to develop a discriminative mind capable of knowing the real form of the unreal and to face the dualities of life with equanimity. 
Yoga practices can be build around concepts like conditioning (propagation), synchronization, concentration, relaxation and self-reliance. 
Yoga improves posture, increases the intake of oxygen and enhances the functioning of all body system like- respiratory, digestive, endocrine reproductive, excretory system etc.
 

 Health Benefits from the Regular practice of Asanas   


1) Flexibility of the spine is increased.

2) The joints become more mobile.

3) The muscles are relaxed, toned and receives a plentiful supply of blood.



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