-By Lalit Ok Jha
Plans have been set in movement to open the East Coast campus of Vivekananda Yoga University, which had its first convocation at its Los Angeles campus over the weekend. In a historic first, as many as 23 college students acquired the Master of Science (yoga) levels on the maiden convocation of the college on June 12.
“We are also planning to have something (campus of the Vivekananda Yoga University) on the East Coast,” stated Dr H R Nagendra, chairman of its board of trustees.
The high yoga guru, who can be Chancellor of SVYASA University, the world’s first Yoga college in Bengaluru which he based in 2002, stated that he’s in talks with New York-based eminent Indian-American Prem Bhandari to arrange a campus of the college within the East Coast.
A call has been taken given the rising recognition of yoga within the US and rising demand for yoga practitioners, lecturers and researchers within the nation. This is a results of the efforts being undertaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he stated.
“Prem Bhandari has been one of our very close associates, one of the directors of the board,” Nagendra stated, including that this might most likely be in New York.
Welcoming the transfer to open the East Coast campus of the Vivekananda Yoga University, Bhandari stated this can assist in fulfilling the wants of this a part of America.
“Dr Nagendra is a visionary leader. By establishing Vivekananda Yoga University, he is bringing yoga education and research in a scientific way, which has never been done in the past,” Bhandari stated.
There is a have to deliver tutorial dimension to yoga, stated Dr Nagendra, including that Prime Minister Modi has performed a key function within the international recognition of yoga within the final one decade.
“Swami Vivekananda said that we have to bring our traditional things with a scientific approach. This is what we are doing, combining the best of the East with the best of the West,” stated the highest Indian yoga guru.
The Vivekananda Yoga University, collectively launched by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on External Affairs P P Chaudhary throughout a digital occasion on the Consulate General of India in New York in June 2020, is provisionally authorised and licensed by the California Bureau of Private and Postsecondary Education.
According to the college, the stated first batch of 23 college students within the Master of Science (yoga) Programme are graduating. This 30-credit, four-semester on-line programme is designed for the working skilled in addition to these searching for to deepen their information of yoga with specialisation obtainable in Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Therapy or Yoga Research.
Dr Manjunath N Ok, professional vice chancellor and director analysis of S-VUASA additionally attended the convocation together with different dignitaries. Vivekananda Yoga University is the primary yoga college exterior India.
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