Publicity Seminar for Yoga in Marya Hotel

Ankara, Turkey – 20.10.2007

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Our center organizes seminars in different places to publicize Yoga with its different aspects. This time our seminar took place in the Marya Hotel. The purpose of the seminar which was about “Relaxation” and “Concentration” was to give useful tips to the target audience who work long hours a day and are not able to spare time for themselves.

“To be relaxed and the ability to concentrate on the task we are doing already exist in our nature. The intensive business tempo leads to one’s alienation to himself. Due to this alienation one can lose these inborn abilities and he may become more stressful and tense. What is more, as his job turns out to be something obligatory, he no longer takes pleasure in doing it.

However, when we focus our mind on the task, we feel joy and hapiness. In other words where there is joy, pleasure and hapiness there is concentration. When a person takes an interest in something, concentration follows it. Concentration is the shadow of the interest.” By making such explanations Ramaray Prabhu gave us the secret of concentration. Without letting it remain as a theory he had the audience do the practice of it.

In our three-hour seminar which was composed of two parts, the tea break along with our food offers warmed the atmosphere. Meanwhile, the students coming from our center were talking with the participants about the benefits of yoga and answering some of their questions.

After the seminar, some of the participants were leaving their phone numbers and addresses in order to be informed about the activities held by our center, some were filling in the application forms to start the yoga courses and the others were directing questions to our teacher Ramaray Prabhu individually.

Yoga is an unknown subject for majority, a new field to be discovered. Ramaray Prabhu holding light to this area organizing such gatherings, says: “Yoga is like an ocean. You can get whatever you want from this field at physical, mental or psychological level.” and he invites us to a mysterious voyage in this ocean.