Documentation Centre International Yoga Co-ordination Centre AHIMSA AWARENESS YOCOCEN (The International Yoga Coordination Centre) emerged as an International organization, based in India, as an educational registered trust. It is obvious that the tremendous interest for Yoga all over the world has spurt in the popular interest and the zealous pursuit of Yoga requires proper regulation and direction. It is therefore the need of the hour to coordinate all developmental efforts in the field of Yoga from the scientific, social, ethical, religious and philosophical points of view of the situation as a whole. This is what YOCOCEN is for. We have a few programs which we are trying to follow. 1) We are concentrating now in developing a Documentation Centre in Yoga, which regarding the multidisciplinary aspects of Yoga, is something gigantic. However, we are starting it in a modest way, collecting the oral teachings of saddhus and sages, yogis on tape record and then screening out and filing the important points. We also collect different Yoga programs as for instance:- Yoga in prisons, hospitals, etc. 2) Courses for Yoga teachers and introductary courses for the public in general, and on the 11th to the 13th February, 1983 we held such courses in Delhi, at the Bharatya Vidya Bhavan:- Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Relaxation, Meditation and Anatomy, Phi-siology for Yoga Teacher. Dr. R. H. Singh conducted Anatomy and Phisiology. Dr. K. S. Joshi, from Sagar University, conducted Hatha Yoga and Pranayama and Maria Helena de Bastos Freire gave the Relaxation Techniques. Mrs. Shanta Dhingra and Dr. Barothra were responsible for the introductory course. 3) Now comes the third program, YOCOCEN's program which is called "AHIMSA Awareness in Modern Society". As the name is self-explanatory, we cordially invite you all to participate. Going back to the two previous Seminars held on the subject, we would like to briefly sumup what we concluded and which we submit to your appraisal and judgment - the program for the third seminar to be held in India from the 20th to the 23rd October, 1983. LECTURE TOPICS Non-Violence in Sports
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