N

ovant Health; spread

across North Carolina,

Virginia, South

Carolina and Georgia;

is offering joint yoga

classes for mothers

and their under-

one-year-old babies

in Winston-Salem

(North Carolina),

which end with a

massage for baby.

“Practicing yoga with baby is a

wonderful way to enjoy your baby’s

first year. This one-hour class helps

new mothers regain flexibility,

strength and confidence. Babies are

incorporated into the yoga poses”,

announcement says. Starting May 4,

these classes will continue till

December 28.

Meanwhile, Hindu statesman Rajan

Zed, in a statement in Nevada today,

termed it as a step in the positive

direction by a health group to

incorporate yoga in the life of infants

along with their mothers. Zed urged

all major US health/medical groups

to explore various benefits yoga

offered.

Yoga, referred as “a living fossil”,

was a mental and physical discipline,

for everybody to share and benefit

from, whose traces go back to

around 2,000 BCE to Indus Valley

civilization, Zed, who is President

of Universal Society of Hinduism,

noted.

Rajan Zed further said that yoga,

although introduced and nourished

by Hinduism, was a world heritage

and liberation powerhouse to be

utilized by all. According to Patanjali

who codified it in Yoga Sutra, yoga

was a methodical effort to attain

perfection, through the control of the

different elements of human nature,

physical and psychical.

According to US National Institutes

of Health, yoga may help one to

feel more relaxed, be more flexible,

improve posture, breathe deeply, and

get rid of stress. According to a “2016

Yoga in America Study”, about 37

million Americans (which included

many celebrities) now practice yoga;

and yoga is strongly correlated with

having a positive self image. Yoga

was the repository of something

basic in the human soul and psyche,

Zed added.

Novant Health, which claims to

have been “recognized as a leader in

improving the quality of healthcare”,

is a not-for-profit integrated

system of 15 medical centers and

1,380 physicians in 530 locations.

Headquartered in Winston-Salem,

Carl S. Armato is its chief executive

officer.

Novant

Health group offering

“Mommy-baby yoga”

in baby’s 1st year

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