Relevance of Yoga in Mental Health

When you do yoga, your brain cells develop new connections, and changes occur in brain struc­ture as well as function, resulting in improved cog­nitive skills, such as learning and memory. Yoga strengthens parts of the brain that play a key role in memory, attention, awareness, thought, and language. Think of it as weightlifting for the brain.

Report of a Guest lecture on Relevance of Yoga in Mental health

A “Guest lecture” on “Relevance of Yoga in Mental health” has been organized by the Department of Education & Physical Education, FOE, SVSU on 9th December 2021, it was a live telecast on YouTube many participants from different states of India participated, including students of Swami Vivekananda Subharti University.

The program was started with the introduction of the theme and Speakers by Ms. Nisha Saini (Assistant professor), Department of Physical Education, SVSU. She welcomed our imminent speakers and introduced them to all the members and students. She briefed about the covering of the topic and explained the need and importance of organizing such kind of webinar. (Dr.) Professor Sandeep Kumar, Dean Faculty of Education & Head Department of Physical Education, SVSU delivered the inaugural address and explained the current programs and initiatives taken by the university to promote mental and physical health during the pandemic. Our imminent speaker, Dr. Mahendra N.Sawant Associate Professor and Head-Department of Yoga, Laxmibai National College of Physical Education, Trivandrum (Kerela), did keynote address and presented a wonderful presentation about the fundamentals of yoga and its applications. He greeted the faculty of education and physical education for creating and running such an online platform for the Subharti university. He gave various reasons why should a person do yoga and also explained mental health and its importance in this Era. He also presented some researches that has been done on yoga and mental health to prove the scientific approach to the audience and shared wonderful examples. Dr. Sawany congratulated the faculty of education and physical education on bringing out an online platform for such an important topic. He concentrated on the social application of yoga and highlighted each Limb of Yoga and it’s importance. The event was ended with the vote of thanks to the Vice-chancellor for his guidance and direction, to CEO Dr shalya Raj for her support on each and every aspect, to the Speaker Dr. Mahendra N. Sawant for sharing his knowledge and valuable thoughts, to the Dean Faculty of Education and Head of the Physical Education Department, Swami Vivekananda Shubharti University, to Dr. Manju for her support, the audience for showing interest and participation and at the end to Mr. Vishal and his technical team for running the online program smoothly without any huddle was given by Ms. Nisha Saini Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University.