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Now it's the turn of BSF jawans to learn yoga from Ram Dev!

Now, the jawans from 25th Battalion at Chhawla learnt yoga from Swami Ram Dev. At west Delhi, hundreds of BSF jawans poured on the extensive landscaped ground to learn Pranyama, Bhujang Asana, Manduka Asana from the distinguished and world famous yoga guru. BSF jawans who live away from their respective families for stretched periods of time undergo a great fit of depression and anxiety but yoga is a great stress buster. The 10-day-long yoga camp organized by Baba Ram Dev is a great occasion for these jawans who come have come forward to beat their stress by extensive workouts. The shiver has been received with utmost seriousness by these para military personnels. This shiver has been organized by Welfare and Rehabilitation Board (Warb) and has been attended by 3, 000 soldiers from CRPF, BSF, CISF, SSB, NSG etc.

Ram Dev sees Africa as a storehouse of solutions to world’s problems

Swami Ram Dev, the world famous yoga guru, believes that Africa can offer solutions to a wide variety of problems widespread in US and UK. In fact, he sees Africa as a potential solutions provider to the common problems among various nations and a resource pool to combat against exploitation. Ram Dev supported the views of some eminent leaders of Africa and requested South Africa to extend its helping hand to the other countries of the world so that these underdeveloped and developing nations also came at par to other developed countries in the domain of development. He is of the opinion that God has bestowed his blessings on Africa and gifted it with lots of natural beauty and biological resources. But the urge for development has prompted the foreign visitors to deplete it of its resources. So efforts should be made to encourage Africa to provide the other countries with its great supply of organic food resources.

Religious conversion faces criticism from Swami Ram Dev

Baba Ram Dev, the renowned yoga guru, has slammed religious conversion. He pledged to put in his best possible endeavors to promote brotherhood and unity among the citizens of the country and lay the foundation of a mentally and physically fit India by amalgamating the healthy yoga practices and ayurveda with the rich culture of the country. He vowed to provide six lakh villages with yoga education that will aim to remove the pain of the people. Baba Ram Dev declared at the yoga camp organized in Rourkela that the restrictions should be posed on the practice of inducing religious conversion in disguise of rendering social services. He criticized the killing of Lakshmananda Saraswati and gave a national call to maintain peace and harmony in the country. He openly said that no religion encourages violence and revealing his feeling of patriotism even declared that he is all set to set up Bharat Swabhiman Manch (BSM) that would aim to rebuild the national integrity and prosperity.

Baba Ram Dev imparts yoga lessons to Common Wealth Games participants

Baba Ram Dev’s yoga camp at Pune witnessed around 1,300 athletes and 350 officials, who participated in eight-day long yoga camp. He imparted the basic yoga lessons to the young athletes, who flowed in here from different parts of the world. The yoga camp was organized to enhance the psycho-physical fitness of these participants. During this week long yoga session, the participants practiced varied asanas and breathing exercises such as Pranayama, Kapalbhati, Bhastrika etc to help the athletes gain mental composure and physical fitness. Baba Ram Dev declared that these yoga postures and deep breathing exercises will help the people of this age to beat the stress of their lives and gain peace of mind, which will help them in coming up with the outstanding performance and prosperity. Many foreign participants after attending the yoga lesson said they felt refreshed and loaded with energy. And this has also increased their energy and concentration levels.

PMC to be graced by Baba Ram Dev on October 18

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to enhance the work efficiency of its employees by organizing a yoga camp that will be marked by the presence of Baba Ram Dev. Swami Ram Dev will be imparting yoga lessons and wellness tips to the entire staff of PMC. The camp will be organized at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on October 18 and it is mandatory for all the staff members of PMC to attend. Pravinsinh Pardeshi, the Municipal Commissioner, declares that the staff of PMC works under stressful circumstances. Hence, they need to attend this very essential yoga camp by Baba Ram Dev that will relieve them of this stress and anxiety and will enable them to focus o their work. Not only the staff members, but also their families have been invited to attend the yoga camp. The camp will also be attended by Ajit Pawar, the Guardian Minister and Harshwardhan Patil, the State Minister for Marketing.

Yoga Shivir for paramilitary troops

Baba Ram Dev, the renowned yoga guru, has decided to start a yoga shivir for the soldiers of Central paramilitary forces from October 17, 2008. It will be a 10 days long camp. The event is going to be organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The ministry wishes to beat the stress of the personnel of paramilitary forces. It is a rough estimate that around four to five thousand security personnels will be trained in this camp. They will be taught the yoga lessons, asanas, meditation techniques and basic breathing exercises. This will be done with the objective that the trained personnel will further train the other soldiers of their own battalions so that the soldiers posted in the remote areas can also practice yoga and keep themselves stress free and healthy. Baba Ram Dev has organized such great events in the past also. More than 60,000 soldiers of paramilitary troops have benefited from training at Vyakti Vikas Kendra.

Ram Dev ends his misunderstanding with Ramadoss

Baba Ram Dev today has cleared that he no longer shares any kind of misunderstanding with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. In the past, Ramadoss had rubbished the claims made by Ram Dev that yoga can cure a number of dreadful diseases including AIDS and cancer. Baba Ram Dev is in Delhi these days. He is imparting yoga lessons to the people of Delhi and Gurgaon nowadays. Both the famous personalities seem to have solved their differences. Baba Ram Dev proved his point right with the help of varied clinical controls and experimental tests. Ramadoss’ ministry had earlier sent Baba Ram Dev a legal notice on this issue but with time, Swami Ram Dev emerged as victor and proved his claim right. He is credited for popularizing yoga to a remarkable extent in India and abroad. Ramadoss extended his gratitude to Ram Dev for lending his support to the health ministry in its anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco campaigns.

Ram Dev and Bollywood

Not only are the common masses of the country patrons of Ram Dev, but also the highly popular industry, Bollywood. Baba Ram Dev succeeds again in casting charm over the movie stars of Hindi film industry. His list of followers from Bollywood includes the highly paid actors such as Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty, Neha Dhupia etc. The most popular starts of Bollywood like Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are yearning for joining his yoga camps. Baba Ram Dev’s popularity has enticed these film stars and they get up early in the morning to join his regular camps. The major factor that has captivated these film stars is that these stars live a hectic life and their busy lifestyle paves way for depression and tremendous stress. They find calm and composure in yoga and meditation. Also, they are required to keep their bodies fit and good looks maintained. The yoga lessons imparted by Baba Ram Dev help them meet this motive.

Swami Ramdev captivates the audience of Pilani

Baba Ram Dev reached Pilani, Rajasthan on October 8, 2008. The crowd needed no introduction of this great personality. He went to Pilani to grace the auspicious ninth day of Navratra. The world famous Swami Ram Dev addressed a huge crowd that had gathered at Birla Yoga Kendra Pilani to listen to his speech. As usual, Baba Ram Dev succeeded in spellbinding the crowd there. He delivered a speech of two hours, during which the crowd kept sitting captivated by his charm. The great city, Pilani, is marked by the presence of big and reputed institutions like BITS Pilani, CEERI and CSIR Laboratory. Baba Ram Dev mixed the right proportion of humor, satire, patriotism and spiritualism in his speech conveying the information and significance of yoga, naturopathy and ayurveda. The stage was massive and apt for the yoga teachings by Baba Ram Dev. He also paid a visit to Birla Yoga Center.

Baba Ram Dev talks about Kleshas

Baba Ram Dev has complied the basic aspects and practices of yoga tradition in his famous book “Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras”. In his work, he has comprehensively described about the origin of human sufferings through “Theory of Kleshas”. According to this book, the origin of human sufferings is Avidya, the first Klesa. It is a kind of ignorance that originates inside the soul of a human being. Second Klesa, Asmita, originates from this. It refers to the identification of soul along with the different components to it. Raga and Dvesa are the third and fourth Klesa respectively. These refer to desire or fear within the soul of a human being. These clarify the basic existence of a human being in a streamlined state. Abhinivesha is the fifth Klesa. It refers to the most common desires prevalent in the life span of a human being such as desire for life, desire for ego etc. These Klesas are apt for teaching the man what his existence means. In addition, it teaches the man to live a balanced and

Another feather in the cap of Swami Ram Dev

The Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, released a book at Narnaul on October 6, 2008. The book has been named Pranayama Rahasya and it was released in one of the yoga camps organized by Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust. The book displays the photograph of Swami Ram Dev on the cover page. The Chief Minister of Haryana also shared his views with Baba Ram Dev on this occasion. The occasion was marked by the live yoga performance of a boy, who diaplayed various asanas, mudras and breathing yoga exercises. Bhupinder Singh Hooda also gave an invitation to Baba Ram Dev to set up a Yoga University in the state. He acknowledged the efforts of Baba Ram Dev in popularizing yoga among all the sections of the society and curing thousands of disabled and crippled people. Baba Ram Dev is all set to organize camps in different villages of Haryana and give them important yoga lessons.

Baba Ram Dev alerts about unsafe yoga practices

Are you a victim of stressed life? Get started with yoga right away! Yoga has been practiced in India for ages but it’s only now that it has become a rage and so popular among all the sections of the society. And, all the credit goes to Swami Ram Dev. Earlier, Bhartiya Yoga Sansthan had been doing this community service of popularizing healthy yoga practices in various public parks. But never before, people showed such an active participation. But whatever may be the reason, today people are getting to learn some healthy habits through yoga. However, all yoga practices are not safe. Baba Ram Dev has declared that people should be beware of unprofessional and uncertified yoga teachers. There are many such yoga teachers in the society today. Yoga, asanas and mudras taught by such unqualified instructors instead of causing benefits to your body may end up troubling you all the more.

Baba Ramdev offers solution for hair loss treatment

Suffering from hair loss? Are you stressed? No worries! Swami Ramdev is there to help you out. He will help you to recover from the problem of hair loss. There are no western medicines to cure thinning of hair or baldness. Only yoga comes forward to rescue you from this problem. Baba Ramdev declares that some of the major factors contributing to excessive loss of hair are poor diet, reduced blood circulation, stress, anxiety etc. Headstand yoga is very beneficial in enhancing the blood circulation and also provides relief from hypertension. Yoga poses such as downward facing dog, camel pose, Pawanmuktasana, Vajrasana are quite effective in lessening the stress and improving the blood circulation thereby reducing the hair loss. Massage therapy is another cure to this problem. One can try it and see the difference that it makes to the hair in some time. Gentle massage with fingertips for 5 minutes everyday can make a remarkable difference in the hair loss. Baba Ramdev’s yoga pharmacy has