IIT Bhubaneswar Celebrates International Yoga Day

The Institute celebrated International Yoga Day grandly with the enthusiastic participation of students, faculty and staff. The celebrations on Sunday were preceded by two days of introduction and practice sessions where participants were introduced to Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation. Short demonstrations and practice sessions were held culminating in Sunday's grand event.

After the day's Yoga session, the Director of the Institute, Prof. Rajakumar addressed the gathering via Skype sharing his experience & wisdom about his decades long Yoga practices. He also expressed his hope that this day will mark the day where all in Institute community will take advantage of the wonderful science & techniques of yoga and benefit from it as the rest of the world is doing too. He also encouraged those who are already on the path of Yoga to take this day to be day to recommit to the practice of Yoga. The day's celebrations ended with a short Yoga Dance performed by school children of the DAV School - Unit VIII and a vote of thanks by the Dean, Student Affairs, Prof. Swarup K. Mahapatra.