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Yoga is an excellent system for promoting healthy development. It is a preventive medicine as it facilitates the overall wellness and health. Yoga is a form of exercise, meditation, and breathing practices from Indian roots to bring harmony to the mind, body and soul.
It is always advisable to start yoga in childhood as young bodies and minds are prone to learning new things easily and quickly. With the help of Yoga, they can become more coordinated and flexible. Yoga is safe foe every one but for children it should be done under supervision or by qualifies yoga trainer.
The benefits of yoga can be defined in 3 major areas.
Physical Benefits
Yoga helps in developing the flexibility and strength. Regular yoga poses train the child for coordination, agility, stamina and focus. There are many poses in yoga and they have different role. It helps in developing strong, flexible and healthy bodies where a healthy mind resides. Yoga improves the digestion and circulatory system. It helps in elongation of spine which assist in having good posture and better concentration.  Healthier and physical strong body has better immune system which helps the child to have better immunity for fight the physical and mental stress
Stress Reduction
Because of the competitive world, most children are under great stress. Endless homework, tough competition, student relationship and the pressure from peers and parents are major cause of stress. They have to learn to deal with various problems. Fortunately, with Yoga, children can learn ways to relax and get control of stress in their lives. It negates the negative effects of the stress.
Self-discipline
Yoga means connecting to God. A child's mind has a pure mind. The yoga helps in developing the discipline by organising the sleep cycle. The child becomes more positive and self confident. It helps them to channelize their energy in more productive way. Yoga increases the emotional stability and quotient. It increases the concentration and self awareness and hence overall learning improves.
Yoga for children with special needs
By teaching self awareness, self control, and concentration, yoga can also help to manage children who have been diagnosed with ADHD - attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, autism and learning difficulty. Yoga has also been used to develop strength and coordination in children with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other childhood disability.
Many studies have shown that many children who practice Yoga, especially those with problems such as ADHD, are able to concentrate for longer periods of time. It benefits the overall development and also helps them to adjust with the transitions, which is important for the children with special needs. In an era of children acquiring conditions and diseases, proper breathing, exercise and deep relaxation may be the powerful healing force.
A best gift for a child is to teach himYOGA. 

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Picnic chale ham
Tuesday, November 16, 2010







When I was a kid, there was one thing that i hated to the limit - to stay at home. I always wanted to go out to a new place different from my regular school and home. I wanted to go to places where I could do those wonder things which i had heard in stories. I wanted to be with my friends so that they can see me when i do those exciting things, so that i can take pride in talking about our wonder moments with them - incessantly, and so that I can add one more story to my book of adventures.



As a child you get to hear a lot of stories. These stories take a child to a world unknown. They rock him, they move him. These stories regale him, enthrall him, mesmerize him , hypnotize him and above all inspire him. Anything new is a story for a kid and thus he remembers it and savours it.

It is these stories that make kids remember a lot of things which otherwise would have forgotten. So one fine day, few weeks back, Sakshum thought of adding a few more stories to those adventure books possessed by every kid.




Plots for our stories were Planetarium and Park.

First we took our young heroes to Birla Planetarium - just to add some more stars to their stories. But as expected the kids had no clue about that place. While we were cooling our heels, the kids were busy conjecturing what’s inside.Some of them were expecting to see some Telugu flick in the building which appeared a movie theatre to them. Kaleza was the most popular guess.



And then came the moment when all the guesses came to the halt, when the gates opened and the cool breeze of the theatre brought excitement and commotion along with it.

The kids were now under the the huge curved screen and so were adventure, buzz , anticipation and hope. Right from the very moment in which we barged in under the overhead curved screen of planetarium till the very last conclusive second, every kid was in the state of awe.They were star-strucked by every single thing present there.




The show came to an end in an hour or so and then came the time to take the kids to our second plot- Sanjeevaiah park near Hussain Sagar. I don’t know that how much the kids learnt but anybody who was present there would have certainly got the vibes of inquisitiveness amongst the kids. It was an exclusive experience watching the kids prying and probing.



With the revving engines we embarked upon the second phase of our journey and the buses left for the park. The journey was full of gusto and energy. I don’t remember any school bus trip which was not fun and this was no different. There is some magic that the revving engines, honking horns and blowing winds bring along with them. Enchanted and captivated we reached Sanjeevaiah park.

We all had our lunch and then the kids were set free. The storm was unleashed and it took the entire place in it’s grip. The whole place came to life and started breathing afresh. Everyone, kids and volunteers alike was charged. It felt that we have come to a carnival.




Soon came the time to go but the energy levels were still at the peak. There was no stopping to the fun. In a matter of seconds the passengers of the two buses turned to two rival teams and the roads of Hyderabad turned into a racetrack. And then started the relentless support and chanting by the two teams. The support shown was overwhelming to say the least. The kids put their everything behind their drivers and made them the protagonists of that little cameo.





That was a day which never dropped in its energy level, which showed us that why every adult yearns for his childhood. I am sure that this episode must had given a lot of stories to our youthful daredevils which they will relish in years to come and which they will keep forever in their wonder books.





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We are Growing!!!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 

Dear volunteer: 
 We are pleased to share that Sakshum registered its 600th subscriber just 3 days ago.
We are growing fast and it took just 20 days for us to reach from 500 to 600 
subscriber base.   
Please continue to support us and volunteer in our activities. 

You can find what we are doing at: http://www.sakshum.com/ui/page/OurWork.jsp  
You can join us on twitter at: http://www.sakshum.com/twitter or 
at Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/242276/53251106?m=12d3bddc   

Please forward it to a friend http://oi.vresp.com/f2af/v4/send_to_friend.html?ch=71323feae0  

Thanks and Regards 
Vik & Neeti

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Happy birthday Sakshum
Tuesday, June 2, 2009


Sakshum is 1 :)

A ‘Birthday’ is just the first day of another 365-day journey to achieve a new destination. Enjoy the trip!!!

When a child is born he is helpless. Neither he can walk nor can he talk. He is totally in a new world of love, surprises, failure, success, achievements and appreciation. As he grows he achieves his milestones with great effort, practice and help. By the age of 1, he can express, can make his presence loud and struggles to achieve further milestones. During this first year he lays a foundation for his entire life and this progress makes his first birthday special.

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis”

Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) in Hindi means “being capable. With the idea of bringing a change in life of people with special needs, a year back Sakshum was born.”. It was a new world for all of us. Fortunately, we had a team of 5 members who were dedicated and still working for Sakshum. Initially, it was hard for us to streamline ourselves as we wanted to achieve things fast. We were unorganised. But, pursuance helped us to move ahead. Few professionals, mentors and CSIM streamlined our ideas and helped to turn in action.

Today after a year, Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) has achieved few milestones. Sakshum is running 4 active projects and 1 is under pipeline. 4 projects are:
  1. Eye care I care: this project focuses on screening school children with vision problems and creating awareness about healthy vision. The screened children with vision problems are provided with spectacles and required treatment. In past 3 months 522 children are being screened in various schools and 59 children are being provided with treatment.
  2. Eye Donation Awareness: In association with EBAI (Eye Bank Association of India) Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) is promoting eye donation to reduce the corneal blindness. Till now 250 people have pledge for their eyes. You can pledge your eyes here
  3. Sponsor a child education: Sakshum continues to support the children who can’t study because of poor financial background. Sakshum is sponsoring 3 children education. You can sponsor a child here
  4. Creating awareness about prevention of disability among children: Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) actively participates in creating awareness in govt hospital and community during prenatal screening. Sakshum volunteers conduct lectures for parents who have children with special needs for parenting tips. Sakshum maintains a blog(http://sakshum.blogspot.com) and forum(http://forums.sakshum.in) which shares information about disability, and various other treatments available.

Other project is to establish a holistic, Trans-disciplinary and specialised centre for children with special needs and “At risk”. Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) envisions enabling every child with special needs to develop to his full potential. This project is still in pipeline.

On the sakshum 1st birthday volunteers are planning to plant 50 trees in a school campus which is a gift for our young generation. Plantation will be done with the children to inculcate the habit of plantation and healthy environment. Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) efforts have been appreciated by many people whose lives are changed with the help of sakshum.

Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) wants to extend this opportunity to thank all the volunteers and other subscribers and appreciators whose sincere efforts could bring a change for the better world.

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