Dubai: If you are among those workaholics whose brains and bodies always go into overdrive, better go for a healthy break now than be a candidate for a breakdown soon, a yoga master has cautioned.
“We all want to go faster and faster and we don’t know how to take a break. When a car has to go very fast, you also need to have a good brake for it. If you don’t have a good brake, you’ll crash at some point,” Girin Govind, yoga master and secretary to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Art of Living (AOL) founder, told Gulf News ahead of the Yogic Marathon or Yogathon 2013 scheduled on Friday in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Organised by AOL, Yogathon 2013 is a free event for yoga and fitness enthusiasts where they will be taught the 12 yogic Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations) postures to relax the body, mind and breath rhythms for improved wellness and deliver amazing results in a short time.
Yogathon 2013, which is now in its third year, is also a mega-challenge for participants to complete 54 sets (108 rounds) of the Surya Namaskar for a Gold Certificate. All participants, however, will receive a “Spirit of Yoga Certificate”.
Govind said that while many people have heard about the health benefits of yoga, many still do not engage in it. And this is what they aim to change with Yogathon 2013.
“Many people have heard about it [yoga], but they don’t really know what it is. Many haven’t experienced it exactly. Yoga is not something you can read and experience. You need to go through it and experience it, only then will you benefit from it,” Govind said.
Yogathon 2013 will be held from 9am to 11am at Manchester United Soccer Schools on Airport Road in Abu Dhabi and from 4pm to 6pm at Zabeel Park in Dubai.
Training is ongoing at various locations and times within Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. For information, visit www.yogathon.ae.
