போதைமருந்து உபயோகப்படுத்தியதற்கு யோகா தண்டனை

அமெரிக்க கொலராடோ மாநிலத்தில் போதை மருந்துக்கு அடிமையான சிறார்களுக்கு தண்டனையாக அவர்கள் வாராவாரம் யோகா வகுப்புகளுக்கு செல்லவேண்டும் என்று தீர்ப்பு கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

தினந்தோறும் யோகாவகுப்புகளுக்கு சென்ற சிறுவர்கள் இப்போது போதைமருந்தை விட்டுவிட்டு படிப்பில் கவனம் செலுத்துகிறார்கள்.

Juvenile drug court sentences offenders to weekly yoga classes
May 28, 2007

FORT COLLINS - Eric Campbell was not particularly enthusiastic when he learned that, as part of juvenile drug court, he would have to attend weekly yoga sessions.
"I thought it was crap," he said, quickly apologizing for his language. "It wasn't going to help me. I was just going to go and mess around."

Six months later, the 18-year- old feels differently.

"It's cool," he said. "It's like a mental and physical thing. Right now, I wouldn't know what to do without it."

His concentration was evident he and 14 other teens followed the direction of yoga teacher Cathy Wright.

She asked her students to keep their spine straight, roll their arms in and breathe.

"You come to yoga to learn to relax your tensions, but you have to be able to perceive it to relax it," she told the young men, who are all dealing with some form of substance abuse and were ordered to attend the class by Magistrate Mary Jo Berenato.

A year after Berenato became the juvenile magistrate for the 8th Judicial District and took over juvenile drug court, she launched the yoga program.

"She starts her own yoga practice in her life," said Dee Colombini, coordinator of the district drug courts. "She finds nirvana in her own life, and hence, yoga started for the kids in 2004."

Berenato recognized the principles of yoga could help the teens, teaching them ways other than substance abuse to deal with life's pressures.

"I thought it could originally start to help the girls appreciate their bodies, respect their bodies and be careful about what they put into their bodies or let other people do to their bodies," Berenato said.

She brought in Wright, who saw benefits for both boys and girls, and crafted classes for each gender, as well as a coed class.

Campbell said yoga helps with the stresses of life, allows him to relax after a day of work, GED classes and other obligations.

"I go home and do this stuff and then pass out," he said - but not, as in the past, from alcohol or drugs.

That, according to Wright, is one of the goals of the class.

"We want the yoga teens to feel better, so we approach yoga poses in a way that makes the student successful and builds confidence," Wright said.

Some teens may not realize the benefits immediately, but as they mature, the foundations of yoga will help them clear their minds and respect themselves, said Wright and Berenato.

"We're planting a seed," the magistrate said.

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இந்தியாவின் ஆன்மீக நெறியும் அமைதி வழியும் உலகெங்கும் இறைவழியையும் அமைதியையும் பரப்பிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறது.