International Yoga Day with a difference!
21 Jun 2020 00:44:45
Staff Reporter ;
Kinnar Yoga Session to be held on-line today
TO MARK the International Yoga Day, for the first time in India a Yoga Session for Kinnars (transgenders) will be held on-line on Sunday. International healer and Yoga Guru Krishna Guruji from Indore will be holding this unique session. Elaborating on the event, Dr Jayashree Prabhakar Barai, working as assistant professor in Purushottam Thote College of Social Work in the city, said, “Krishna Guruji is a spiritual healer with a simple mission to heal the world. With this mission, he is conducting sessions of healing and yoga for different classes and masses in the society.
On this International Yoga Day, a ‘Yoga Session for Kinnars (transgender) will be held for the first time in India. This is a very unique event.” Dr Barai is Maharashtra co-ordinator for this on-line International Yoga Day session. She has been working for the Kinnar community for last 25 years. She has a doctoral degree (PhD) on transgenders from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University. “Krishna Guruji is an international healer and Yoga Guru from Indore. On June 21, many Kinnars from India as well as from other countries will participate in the Yoga session specially organised for them. The yoga session will be of 45 minutes and Guruji will specially grace the transgender community people on this day. No one has organised a special session for transgender before this,” Dr Barai said. Krishna Guruji has been organising International Yoga Day sessions each year in a unique manner.
In 2015, Guruji had organised the International Yoga Day session in the Indore-Jodhpur ‘Ranthambore Express’ while in 2016 he had organised session for Mahakal Bhikkshus. In 2017, the session was organised on-board Air India flight. In 2018, Guruji achieved a world record by conducting a yoga session at the highest altitude at Hilsa in Nepal. He took a yoga session at the altitude of 3,640 meters (11,940 ft), reads the certificate issued by the Golden Book of World Records. “In 2019, Krishna Guruji conducted a yoga session on international cruise in USA. This time he is conducting session for transgenders. Many eminent personalities will also attend the session,” Dr Barai said.
