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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (JD)
Mangaluru, Dec 17: The Ayush Foundation on Thursday December 17 organized a rally from Bunts Hostel cirle to the Nehru Naidan to create awareness regarding the Ayush festival to be held in Pilikula on December 19 and 20.
About 600 students from various medical and nursing colleges of the city marched in unison and raised slogans to create awareness.
The rally was flagged off by president of Buntara Yane Nadavara Sangha, Maladi Ajith Kumar Rai in the presence of Farhad Yenpoya, financial director of Yenepoya University and president of the Ayush foundation Asha Jyothi Rai at Ramakrishna Institutions premises.
The rally culuminated with a yoga demonstration at Nehru Maidan.
Eminent yoga teachers Gopalkrishna Delampady and Kushalappa Gowda along with the Dakshina Kannada unit of Pathanjali Yoga Trust demostrated various Asanas.
Speaking to daijiworld prior to the start of the rally, Jyothi Rai said various stalls would be set up during the two-day festival to showcase 'panchakarma' and other Ayurveda treatments. Health cards would be provided to those getting services during the event, using which the patients could get further treatment at concessional rates. There would be stalls selling Ayurvedic and homoeopathic medicines. An exhibition of medicinal plants that could be grown on agricultural fields too will be organised. Focus will be given to promote ancient Indian food habits and lifestyle, she said.