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Yoga In Mumbai Local: Over 75 instructors to conduct sessions to spread awareness

in a unique initiative, more than 75 yoga teachers of Mumbai in coordination with an organization called 'Heal Station' will be teaching yoga on the local trains from 10.30 am onwards starting from CSMT station to Borivali on today.

Yoga In Mumbai Local: Over 75 instructors to conduct sessions to spread awareness
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In this fast-paced life in Mumbai, there is barely any time to focus on fitness anymore with most of the time spent in the local trains or simply travelling in the city coupled with the long working hours.

However, experts have suggested that Yoga asanas can be performed anywhere and anytime. It can be done when you get a ten-minute break in between work or while you are commuting.

Therefore, in a unique initiative, more than 75 yoga teachers of Mumbai in coordination with an organization called 'Heal Station' will be teaching yoga on the local trains from 10.30 am onwards starting from CSMT station to Borivali on Tuesday, June 21, which is celebrated as International Yoga Day.

These teachers are from different institutions, which are supporting her organisation called 'Heal Station', between the age of 18 to 77.

Sharing about today’s schedule, the founder of Heal Station, Ruchita Shah, said that they will start by 10 am from the concourse hall where people usually wait for their train at CSMT station. From there, they will board a train for Dadar on central line. Later, the team will conduct some yoga sessions at Mumbai Central. The entire program will be held between 10 am to 2.30 pm, the last session will be conducted on the Borivali train from Mumbai Central at 1.30 pm which will reach Borivali by 2.30 pm. 

There are more than 75 yoga teachers participating who will be divided into groups of five and there will be yoga sessions conducted at once in the entire train, she explained.

Some of the yoga asanas which will be included during the sessions in the train will be parvatasana, box breathing, immunity boosting mudras (a set of subtle physical movements), hand stretching, shoulder rotation and many more exercises which can be easily done by commuters while travelling in the train, reports stated.

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