IndiaPost.com - Swami Ramdev to hold yoga camps in Chicago

CHICAGO: Swami Ramdev, world renowned Yogi well versed in Sanskrit, Ayurveda and Vedic philosophy, will be holding yoga camps in New York and Chicago this summer.The Chicago event will be held on July 11 thru July 15 at Max-McCook Athletic & Exposition located in Mc-Cook. There will be morning and evening sessions at this location 6 am to 9 am and 6 pm to 9 pm.

The five-day camp is being organized by Anu and Bharat Malhotra, and Balvinder Singh. Anu Malhotra has been teaching free pranayama classes for the past five years at American Physical therapy & Sports Medicine Clinic located in Naperville, a Chicago suburb. The proceeds received from Swamiji's July Chicago Camp will go to the establishment of Swamiji's dream project- Patanjali Yog Peeth at Bahadarabad, about 20km from Haridwar, India.Swami Ramdev has dedicated his life to studying ancient Indian texts, dated as early as 3000 BC, and in doing so has rediscovered a body of knowledge that until recently has largely been untouched.

His goal is to teach what he has learnt to contemporary society in a form that all individuals may benefit from, regardless of religion, class, or socioeconomics. His firm belief is that "good health is the birth right of all human beings." Swami Ramdev started efforts to popularize Yoga in 1995 with the establishment of Divya Yoga Mandir Trust along with Acharya Balkrishna. The mission of the trust is to spread yoga to the masses and heal as many patients as possible. Now thousands of people are attending his yoga camps or shivirs.

Millions are watching his television programs all across the globe and reading his books and DVD's. To him goes the credit of starting a yoga revolution in India and overseas. Swamiji has envisioned a 100 crore dream project entitled Patanjali Yog Peeth. According to him, it will catapult Yoga and Ayurveda to its zenith, and lead to mental, spiritual and physical development of people.

To be completed in three years, it is an ambitious project with a Yoga university, a naturopathy department which can handle 1,000 patients at a time, a residential complex of patients, a hall for 5,000 people to practice yoga and the world's largest hospital ward to treat 5,000 patients a day.