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ïîäïèñàòüñÿEsports tournaments, ping-pong championships, and exhibitions of student artworks are not the only surprising features of the International College for Arts and Communication (MKIK). At this college, there is creative approach even to physical education. In the first academic term, MKIK provides its students with yoga classes instead of traditional PE classes. Read the article to learn about how useful these classes are and what yoga beginners feel after them.
Since their school years, many students associate physical education with endless fit tests and the desire to escape after boring classes. Everything is different in MKIK. The college students enjoy yoga during one academic term and another term is devoted to regular physical education, which is no less interesting.
Yoga is not just a set of flexibility-focused postures with intriguing names but also a synthesis of spiritual and psychological practices. Classes with a special atmosphere will protect students from negative emotions caused by exams and stress of being involved in many projects.
Tatyana Dyment, head yoga coach at MKIK, was pleased to tell about the specific features of her studies:
MKIK yoga training is focused on Iyengar Yoga. B. K. S. Iyengar is the founder of this style. In this area, yoga practitioners pay serious attention to the awareness of the position of the body in space. You don’t just achieve certain postures: you have to understand what you’re doing and how. Iyengar Yoga develops not only the body but also the brain.
Some newbies are afraid of yoga and think that they can’t do it because of poor flexibility or other reasons but those are prejudices. According to Iyengar himself, how matter how old or young and sick or healthy you are, you will succeed in yoga if you work hard and overcome your laziness!
It was a professional opinion. However, what do novice yoga practitioners think? The first impression the most honest. Let’s ask our first-year students about their first yoga class at MKIK.
Olga Maksimova:
“By doing yoga exercises, a person comes out of grey daily routine into a new magical world, becomes more open and sincere, and begins to live full and bright life. If you do yoga without a soul, it won’t work... Yoga is important to both the body and the soul!”
Anna Baidalina:
“For me, yoga is a way to control myself, my body, thoughts, and feelings and to maintain internal harmony and spiritual peace. It’s an opportunity for the body to rest, to relax, to feel each centimetre, and to realize it from the inside. For the soul, it’s tranquility and self-awareness.”
Anastasia Petrova:
“Yoga is a way of strengthening muscles and developing good flexibility. It helps you stop worrying and concentrate on your breathing and your body. Unnecessary thoughts are gone. I can think about important things and interact with my body correctly and wisely.”
We wish all MKIK students harmony and peace of mind!
Ekaterina Lee, student of the Journalism and Publishing College of MKIK, member of the Student Parliament
Translated by Alena Ermolaeva
30.09.2020