New government yoga centre in Patna beckons enthusiasts

PATNA: The yoga-cum-meditation centre recently inaugurated by chief minister Nitish Kumar offers both spiritual as well as physical classes. This new facility in Shastri Nagar area of the city has trainers from the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger and participants are provided yoga training free of cost.

People can also participate in religious activities like recitation of Sunderkand and Bhagavad Gita.
While the building construction department (BCD) has constructed this centre at the expense of Rs4.07 crore with world class amenities, the functioning and running is being handled by Munger’s Bihar School of Yoga. A BCD official said an MoU has been signed between them and the Bihar School of Yoga in this regard for ten years.
Disciple of Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati and one of the members of Bihar Yoga Bharti, Shashibhushan Verma said the facility is open for all and is also free. He said while the spiritual classes will be held every day from 5:30am to 6am, physical classes will be organised from 6am to 7am, barring Monday, which is off day. He further said they have one session at the present and would increase it to two to three later on as per the demand.
“We welcome all. In fact, chief minister Nitish Kumar has also instructed for pick and drop facility so that even common people can come here,” said Verma, sharing his own experience how yoga helped him come out of the death bed from the hospital and urged others to avail the facility.
The entire yoga course is of three months, with classes divided into three sessions — basic, intermediate and advance — for one month each. After the completion, the new class begins and one can repeat the classes if he or she feels like. On the other hand, spiritual classes consists of chanting of mantras and reciting of Bhagavad Gita shlokas. Apart from these, Mahamritunya havan will be done every Saturday, Sunderkand on every Purnima and Bhagavad Gita recitation on Ekadashi.
BCD secretary Kumar Ravi said it took them one year to construct this centre and now they would be coming up with a residential facility, too, so that people can even stay there.