Yoga takes CWG by storm
October 3rd, 2010 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Young athletes at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony enthralled the audience by performing stunning yoga asanas and ’surya namaskar’, a series of postures in salutation to the sun.
With body, mind and soul in unison, lean but strong performers in amber light spread across the field at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, depicting ‘kundalini’ or the coiled energy, an instinctive force that lies at the base of the spine.
Then one of them rose in the ‘padma asana’ or the lotus pose. The performers choreographed themselves to form ‘chakras’, the seven energy points of the human body as the 65,000-audience looked in awe.
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