It’s the time of the year again. Perficient celebrates the International Yoga Day that happens every year on 21st June. This year we had Gesture yoga and Face Yoga session by Ms. Kalpana Rajasekran, who is a Yoga trainer with 14+ years of experience specializing in Therapeutic Yoga sessions to cure diverse health conditions. This session happened over online where the employees from India attended it Live and had a great refreshing and knowledgeable session.
Agenda
The agenda for this hour-long session was to understand the mudras and how to use them in a proper way and to know the health benefits of the mudras and how to practice the face yoga forever glowing and clear skin.
Advantages of Mudra
Mudra means gesture and it balances the five elements of our body. Mudras can be practiced while doing our daily activities like walking, sitting, and standing or lying down. It relives all the blockages in Chakras and Nadis. The health benefits of mudras are immense. It can cure from headache to heart problems.
Types of Mudras and how to practice them
Trainer is highly professional, and she made us all feel at home. She clearly explained the poses of each gesture and Number of repetitions that needs to be practiced in order to get the maximum benefits out of the gesture. The health benefits ranges from gesture to improve oxygen level in brain, clarity of thoughts and increase vision power and there are gestures to even relives knee pain. Arthritics and stiffness of muscles. Learning about the benefits made us go in awe as have a sedentary lifestyle and a desk job. On practicing these gestures, we can overcome all our minor ailments and conditions can be fixed at the first stage.
Face Yoga
In Today’s world, we tend to spend on skin care, makeup and to look presentable. Kalpana challenged us stating practicing face yoga is an affordable option for the facial wellness. Face yoga is a combination of Acupressure, massage and breathing. There are techniques designed to relieve and rejuvenate the facial muscles.
Advantages of face yoga
It reduces dark circles as we focus massaging on the 5 acupressure points around the eyes also helps in reducing double chin and face fat providing a clear skin from pimples and wrinkles.
Conclusion
As yoga is an ancient practice from India, WIT India takes a great pride in making it reach each one of the employees for a healthy life and to destress from the work. Gesture and face yoga are incredibly awesome ways to bring harmony in the body and keeps us forever young and healthy.
PS : Attaching the PPT : mudras and face yoga (1)
