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In a first-of-its-kind exercise, 250 soldiers of the Western Command of the Army have been sent for a two-week Yoga Teacher' s Training Course being organised by Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar. Army officials said the soldiers after their yoga stint will help impart this training to others in the Command. During the training, which began on January 10 and concluded on Tuesday, the jawans were given a 'comprehensive knowledge of yoga and meditation' by specialists of Patanjali Yogpeeth under Ramdev's guidance.
Spokesperson of Army's Western Command confirmed that the yoga training for its men had indeed happened. "We have decided to train 1,000 soldiers who are deployed across the region in special yoga course, which would be conducted at the Roorkee-based centre of Patanjali Yogpeeth. The first batch has completed its training on Tuesday and now three more batches of 750 more soldiers would be trained," he told TOI on Wednesday. He added that they have set a deadline of six months for all these 1,000 soldiers to be given the training. "Thereafter these trained soldiers would further impart training to others troops in their units/formations."
Yoga has been introduced in Army as an important means to address stress and lifestyle-related diseases. The overall aim is to train 1,000 army persons as "yoga instructors". The soldiers will thereafter become the "fulcrum" for spreading the knowledge at various Army units. Krishna Milan, coordinator at Patanjali Yogpeeth, told TOI, "Baba Ramdev himself took classes for the soldiers and taught them the 12 yoga asanas as well as special asanas for a number of ailments. He also guided them about the correct diet and fitness regime to follow. Thereafter, Acharya Balkrishnan took sessions on meditation and spirituality."
This is a serious initiative taken by the Army to have trained yoga teachers and the group of 250 soldiers is the first batch to do so.
The first-ever World Yoga Day, celebrated on June 21, had seen a huge participation by the Indian Army forces, with defence personnel seen practising yoga in Siachen glacier, naval ships and other armed formations. The defence establishment also threw its weight behind the yoga guru when it tied up last year with Patanjali Yogpeeth for manufacturing and marketing some of the herbal supplements and food products developed by DRDO. In August, an agreement to this effect was signed between DRDO's Defence Institute of High Altitude Research and Patanjali Yogpeeth in the presence of defence minister Manohar Parrikar, Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, DRDO chief S Christopher and Ramdev in Leh.
In a first-of-its-kind exercise, 250 soldiers of the Western Command of the Army have been sent for a two-week Yoga Teacher' s Training Course being organised by Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar. Army officials said the soldiers after their yoga stint will help impart this training to others in the Command. During the training, which began on January 10 and concluded on Tuesday, the jawans were given a 'comprehensive knowledge of yoga and meditation' by specialists of Patanjali Yogpeeth under Ramdev's guidance.
Spokesperson of Army's Western Command confirmed that the yoga training for its men had indeed happened. "We have decided to train 1,000 soldiers who are deployed across the region in special yoga course, which would be conducted at the Roorkee-based centre of Patanjali Yogpeeth. The first batch has completed its training on Tuesday and now three more batches of 750 more soldiers would be trained," he told TOI on Wednesday. He added that they have set a deadline of six months for all these 1,000 soldiers to be given the training. "Thereafter these trained soldiers would further impart training to others troops in their units/formations."
Yoga has been introduced in Army as an important means to address stress and lifestyle-related diseases. The overall aim is to train 1,000 army persons as "yoga instructors". The soldiers will thereafter become the "fulcrum" for spreading the knowledge at various Army units. Krishna Milan, coordinator at Patanjali Yogpeeth, told TOI, "Baba Ramdev himself took classes for the soldiers and taught them the 12 yoga asanas as well as special asanas for a number of ailments. He also guided them about the correct diet and fitness regime to follow. Thereafter, Acharya Balkrishnan took sessions on meditation and spirituality."
This is a serious initiative taken by the Army to have trained yoga teachers and the group of 250 soldiers is the first batch to do so.
The first-ever World Yoga Day, celebrated on June 21, had seen a huge participation by the Indian Army forces, with defence personnel seen practising yoga in Siachen glacier, naval ships and other armed formations. The defence establishment also threw its weight behind the yoga guru when it tied up last year with Patanjali Yogpeeth for manufacturing and marketing some of the herbal supplements and food products developed by DRDO. In August, an agreement to this effect was signed between DRDO's Defence Institute of High Altitude Research and Patanjali Yogpeeth in the presence of defence minister Manohar Parrikar, Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, DRDO chief S Christopher and Ramdev in Leh.
I was shocked to find Ramdev's manufacturing plant somewhere deep inside village. 
