To celebrate annual event of International Day of Yoga in the month of June, Bangalore Kendra organized a detailed plan of events to be conducted in 4 separate Open House sessions (1st session in Public & remaining 3 sessions at Kendra) that devotees could attend & to bring in friends, family members and thereby helping to create awareness on the importance of Yoga in the community.
The Open Houses conducted followed the same agenda for all 4 sessions that consisted of an Introduction to YSS, 100 years of Spiritual journey and the Kriya Yoga teachings of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda that included Opening Prayer, Group Chanting, Breathing Techniques, Visualization Meditation and a short step-by-step guided meditation.
To help new members & others to actively participate in Group Chanting, they were provided with Lyrics to cosmic chant "Door of my Heart" in English & in Kannada language. Everyone, including children sang in chorus to the tune played & that helped in creating a peaceful meditative atmosphere.
The meditation program conducted according to the YSS guidelines included prayer, welcome and introduction. Instruction was given on right posture for meditation as given by Guruji. This was followed by chanting, guided meditation, visualization and finally healing prayers. A video interview of Swami Smarananandaji was showed to the audience, who found it inspiring.
Details of the Open House conducted:
PUBLIC FUNCTION:
On June 16th, Friday the 1st Public Open House was organized at Bhoomi Diagnostics in HSR Sector 2, Bangalore South in the Evening with around 50 devotees who gathered to attended the public function. YSS Publications on “Laws of Success” were distributed to all devotees.
KENDRA FUNCTIONS:
On June 18th, Sunday, Open Houses was conducted at the Kendra in the Morning & Evening with around 200+ devotees attending both the sessions.
On the International Day of Yoga on June 21, Wednesday the 4th Open House was Conducted at Bangalore Kendra in the Evening with around 70+ devotees attending this session.
