8 June 2011

Yogathon New Zealand, a division of Hindu Council of New Zealand, is launching a nationwide ‘Health for Humanity’ Yogathon 2011 which aims to create awareness about art and science of yoga, and its advantages in achieving a healthy body, mind, and spirit.

Yogathon launch event will take place simultaneously at 10.00 am on Saturday, 13 August 2011 in different cities such as Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington. This is going to be first of its kind Yoga initiative for collective practise of Sun Salutations across New Zealand.

During the two-week ‘Health for Humanity’ Yogathon from 13 to 27 August 2011, Yogathon New Zealand and participating organisations will encourage their members and others across the country to together perform 100,000 'Surya Namaskar', a sequence of simple yoga postures.

Surya Namaskar integrates simple yoga postures of well-balanced movements linked with easy breathing technique, and provides immense health benefits to both body and mind.

The scientific basis of Yoga goes back to the conception of levels of personality in India, namely physical body, physiology, mental, intellectual, and spiritual.

The purpose of Yogathon is to promote yoga widely in a scientific perspective of health, to make it a part of school curriculum in future, encourage healthy living and connect all yoga schools and practitioners in New Zealand through participation on this planned annual event.

In addition to health division AROGYA (Aotearoa Research Organisation for Generic Yoga and Ayurveda), Hindu Elders Foundation, Hindu Youth New Zealand and New Zealand Hindu Students Forum, Yoga schools from Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin have shown interest.

“This program is open to people of all ages, gender, and races. It is quite heartening to have dedicated coordinators from different organizations like Bikram School of Yoga, Art of Living New Zealand, New Zealand Hindu Temple Society and many more for this Mega Event,” said Venkat Koppaka, National Coordinator, Yogathon New Zealand.

“We will be soon updating with the list of coordinators from different cities and zones on this national event.”

Yogathon organising committee invites various yoga centres, schools and tertiary institutes, social, cultural, and spiritual and community organisations, regardless of individual faiths and beliefs, to register in this ‘Health for Humanity’ Yogathon, and continue practicing Surya Namaskar beyond the ‘Health for Humanity’ Yogathon.

To register for this unique nationwide event http://yogathon-nz.org/registration

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