“Yoga has really helped me care for myself,” said Abhiyan Bhatta, 15, who said he struggled with knee problems for years before enrolling in yoga lessons at the school in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. “I have healed my pain.”That was an elective class, but yoga will soon be more than an extracurricular activity in Nepal. Hundreds of thousands of elementary and junior high students will enrol in a new, weekly yoga course. “Content against any religion is edited out.”Some students said they were ready for the new addition to their school day. As the yoga lesson ended at Bagmati Boarding School, the 30 or so students adjusted their uniforms, scribbled in notebooks and laced up their shoes.

Source: bd News24 March 17, 2020 03:56 UTC