| The legacy of yoga has endeavored many around the globe. This times its china thats magnetized by the yogic ethos. |
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Amid chinas fast-paced economic development, yoga is making huge in roads into the country, especially among the youth in cities. Indian yoga practitioners are in great demand in these places. "Traditional yoga, which originated in India is much suited to todays fast-paced life in China where people would like to take out time to havemental and physical relaxation from job pressures," founder and director of China Yogiyoga Centre, Yin Yan said.
Yin, who spent a couple of weeks in Rishikesh in 2003, was enticed by the benefits of yoga, is now a highly successful woman who has introduced traditional yoga to china. Currently she runs three centres in beijing, another in southern Chinas Guangzhou and more than 10 branch centres all over China. Yin, who has teamed up with Yogi Mohan to start Yogiyoga centre, said the Chinese people apreciate her contribution in introducing yoga to China which has encouraged them to lead a better and healthy life.
Yin, who quit a high-paying media job to start yoga centres in China, says her three centres in Beijing itself have some 1,000 members. Further, the centres have trained some 300 Chinese to impart yoga in other parts of the vast country. Yoga is becoming a passion among the youngsters who want to practice it keep fit, said Yogi Mohan, who now acts as the vice general manager and chief teacher at Yogiyoga, says. "I feel that yoga can act as a bridge between Indian and Chinese people to understand and appreciate each others culture and traditions," Mohan said.
With a history of thousands of years, yoga is gaining popularity in China having for long been embraced by the west, Swami Ornteerthanada Saraswati, who came from Australia to attend the first-ever 2005 China International Yoga Show and Conference here said. "Yoga is admired around the world for its positive benefits to human health. And china is no different," she said, predicting that the demand for yoga among the Chinese would be growing rapidly.
China Electronic Appliance Corporation organised the first-ever yoga show here last weekend. The show held in association with Indian gurus and trainers was a success, said Brian Zhang of the China International Yoga Show and Conference. He said the event also provided a chance to Chinese and foreign exhibitors to show-case yoga, fitness and health products.
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