Yoga Camp for All

REPUBLICA
KATHMANDU, March 27: Thousands of Kathmandu denizens flocked to Tundikhel Saturday morning to participate in yoga guru Swami Ramdev´s yoga camp.

On the first day of the camp, Ramdev taught various types of yoga to about 35,000 people, according to the main organizing committee of the camp. Youths, adults and elderly alike hustled into Tundikhel before the dawn broke.


The yoga camp was inaugurated by President Dr Ram Baran Yadav. Various political leaders, prominent artistes and senior bureaucrats, among others, also participated in the camp. In the first camp of Swami Ramdev organized in Kathmandu a few years back, only 20,000 peopel had participated.

“We faced a little bit problem to accommodate all participants in Tundikhel this time,” Jeevan Kandel, member of the organizing committee, said. The committee Saturday expanded the space for yoga practicing in Tundikhel to accommodate more beginners.

The second yoga camp of Swami Ramdev in Kathmandu is being broadcast live by three national televisions. Thousands more people are expected to learn various methods of yoga practice by following the celebrated yoga guru on their television sets as well.

At a program in the afternoon, Swami Ramdev delivered a speech on transforming society through the means of yoga. In the evening, the yoga guru met Prime Minister Madhav Nepal in the latter´s residence in Baluwatar as well as Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala at her Mandikhatar residence.