Event Overview and Background Information

The yoga session will be called Journey of the Mind Yoga. During this session, participants will
be able to learn beginner yoga, enjoy light refreshments, mingle with other participants, and
learn about the benefits yoga has on health. The yoga session is an opportunity for individuals to
connect in way they would not normally have and to help them to relieved their stress. The
management from the Journey of the Mind Yoga Session can also be present to free taking blood
pressure screenings and educate participants. All participants that attend the event will be given a
10% discount to use for participating in the yoga class as well as a BP reading. Yoga is an
ancient practice that builds strength and awareness and brings together the mind and body. It
includes breathing exercises, meditation and asanas or poses that stretch and flex various muscle
groups. Yoga was being practiced in the pre-Vedic period, the great Sage Maharshi Patanjali
systematized and codified the then existing practices of Yoga, its meaning and its related
knowledge through his Yoga Sutras. The practice is said to have originated thousands of years
ago in India and has been adapted in other countries in a variety of ways.
Objectives
●The main goal of the Yogic practices is to make one free from diseases, ignorance, egoism,
miseries the affiliations of old age, and fear of death etc.

●To provide and achieve people of all ages with benefits for their physical

fitness and mental health.

●To self-reflect, control the breath, achieve deep relaxation, and grow through meditation.

●The other goal of yoga is integrating the body, mind, and thoughts so as to work for good ends.

Target Participants

People aged 30-40 years old, although yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people
of all ages. If you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery or living with a chronic
condition, yoga can become a fundamental part of your treatment and potentially hasten healing.
There are numerous studies show yoga’s benefits in arthritis, osteopenia, balance issues,
oncology, women’s health, chronic pain and other specialties which mostly happen at the age of
30-40 years old, at this age people tend to lose lean tissue. Your muscles, liver, kidney, and other
organs may lose some of their cells. This process of muscle loss is called atrophy. Bones may
lose some of their minerals and become less dense. Due to this reason participating in a yoga
session is a good exercise to improve our health.