{"id":54569,"date":"2017-03-27T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=54569"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:22:58","slug":"meet-keralas-first-complete-yoga-village-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=54569","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kerala\u2019s first \u2018Complete Yoga Village\u2019 | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The sleepy village of Kunnamthanam is set to become Kerala\u2019s first \u2018Complete Yoga Village\u2019, and hopes to set a national record. It is already attracting churches, temple devaswoms, and social organisations with its offer of universal training.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-17655673\">\n<p>At the heart of the effort is the local panchayat\u2019s \u2018My village, healthy village\u2019 project launched in association with the Thiruvalla-based Pranavom Yoga Centre (PYC), which works to popularise the ancient health system.<\/p>\n<p>The panchayat will give free training to the entire village. \u201cOur aim is to make yoga an integral part of lifestyle. The first phase of training will be at 28 places in all the 15 wards till May 31,\u201d panchayat president K.K. Radhakrishna Kurup said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\">PYC director and yoga instructor M.G. Dileep is leading the hour-long sessions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The first yoga training session was held at St. Mary\u2019s Sehion Orthodox church in Kunnamthanam on March 22, with the Vicar, Fr. C.K. Kurien, also present. Training for every household is the key goal to bid for the \u2018Complete Yoga Village\u2019 title, and make a declaration on World Yoga Day, June 21.<\/p>\n<h2>Mega yoga show<\/h2>\n<p class=\"_hoverrDone\">Mr. Kurup said the panchayat and the PYC would jointly host a mega yoga show. As the members move towards the June target, monasteries, temple grounds, church halls, old age homes, housing colonies for the underprivileged, homes for the destitute and disabled will all come alive with yoga sessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sleepy village of Kunnamthanam is set to become Kerala\u2019s first \u2018Complete Yoga Village\u2019, and hopes to set a national record. It is already attracting churches, temple devaswoms, and social organisations with its offer of universal training. At the heart of the effort is the local panchayat\u2019s \u2018My village, healthy village\u2019 project launched in association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}