डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्वविद्यालय दिल्ली 
| Course Type | Course Code | No. Of Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Discipline Elective | SES101411 | 2 |
Course Coordinator and Team: SES Faculty
Email of course coordinator: pcbabed@aud.ac.in
Pre-requisites: No
Course Description: This course focuses on the benefits of Yoga for healthy living and the importance of the practice of yoga for promoting the optimal state of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual well-being of a person. Yoga as a way of life is characterized by peace and tranquility, harmony and health, love and happiness, precision, and efficiency. The course seeks to engage student teachers with these ideas. The focus of the course is on being mindful of self (body, mind, emotions, thoughts, and actions). Course components will include brief history of yoga, principles and different types and streams of yoga, practices, meditation and reflective practices, and the importance of these aspects in becoming an effective teacher.
Course Objectives:
- To introduce students to Yoga as a knowledge system
- To enable an appreciation for, and acquire experiential understanding of significance of Yoga in understanding Self
- To familiarise students with basic Yoga Asanas/Breath Work (Pranayam/Kriyas).
Course Outcomes:
- Explain the importance of Yoga and how it helps an individual in understanding Self
- Describe the importance of practicing Yoga Asana
- Practice basic Yoga Asanas/ Kriyas.
Brief description of the modules:
Unit 1: Philosophy, and Historical Perspective of Yoga
This module will focus on introducing the context and nature of knowledge of the self addressed by the Yogasutras with its focus on ‘meditation’ (Samadhi), ‘praxis’ (Sadhana), ‘powers’ (Vibhuti), and ‘aloneness/freedom’ (Kaivalya).
Unit 2: Schools of Yoga
This module will focus on nature and forms of Yoga, the eightfold means of Yoga; the emphasis on practical methods of purification and concentration for realising the self’s distinction from the body and the mind, leading to ‘self-realisation’ / ‘liberation’.
Unit 3: Modern Principles of Yoga and Meditation
A. Modern Principles: Human Body is a holistic entity, Individuals and their need are Dhāraṇa & Dhyāna, etc, meditation and reflective practices, and the importance of these aspects in becoming an effective teacher, unique Self-empowering, the quality and state of an individual mind is crucial to healing.
B. Meditation: - its Importance, Types, and Process, Pranayama: its importance, types and process, Yoga as a Way of life for Peace, Harmony, Health love and happiness. Yoga in Indian philosophy for understanding Self.
Assessment Plan
- Practicum: 50 percent
- Project on any one theme of the course: 50 percent
Readings:
- Feuerstein, Georg (2001). The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice. Hohm Press. (selected excerpts)
- Asanas, Pranayamaand Mudra Bandh, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Yoga Publication Trust, Munger, Bihar, India, 2004
- Patanjali Yogasutras, Commentary by Swami Vivekanand, Rajyoga (Introduction and History of Yogasutras- select chapters)
- Krishnamurti, J. (1970, 9 April). What is Meditation? Public Talk, San Diego, California. https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/what-meditation
- Bihar School of Yoga: Satyananda Yoga For everyone https://www.biharyoga.net/yoga-for-everyone-training-bihar-yoga-satyananda-yoga-one.php
- Chandrasekhar, R. & Chandrasekhar, A. (2022). Growing with yoga. Tulika Books.