After qualifying in the Zonal festival in Chennai, seven schools qualified for the Grand Finale. As promised the teams selected for final level, were supposed to visit ashram on 14th February and celebrate Children Yoga Festival.

99 people traveled from Chennai to Munger and then to Rikhia on a sponsored trip as part of the Children Yoga Festival. The group included children from six Chennai schools, some of their parents, teachers from the six schools, yoga teachers from Satyananda Yoga Centre.

The experiential tour gave opportunity for children to live in ashram in a Gurukul setting.  51 students of six schools were fortunate to visit the ashram.

  • DAV Matric Hr Sec School
  • Bhavan’s Rajaji vidyashram
  • Mathur Vivekananda Vidyalaya
  • Bharath Sr Sec School
  • Mahindra World School
  • Narbada Devi Vivekananda Vidyalaya

It was truly an experience of love, care, seva, samarpan, celebration.. They were exposed to different dimensions of Satyananda Yoga during their stay.

Before reaching ashram the group visited the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda in Kolkata.