The department of physical education and sports of St. Joseph Vaz Institute of Education and St. Joseph Vaz College organised Healthify-A lecture series on Health, Exercise and Wellness for the students of B.Sc. The lecture series is the first of its kind organised at college level. The aim of the lecture series is to motivate the students to follow a healthy lifestyle, to follow scientific methods of training and to make science the most important thing while following sports and physical education and to make them understand about diseases and its prevention.
The second lecture of the series was on the topic pranayama and meditation. The resource person for the function was Mr Sachin Parsekar assistant professor in physical education at Don Bosco College, Panaji. The function started with address of Dr Maria Fonseca the Principal of St. Joseph Vaz College who emphasised the importance of pranayama and meditation. Mr Infancio Correia introduced the resource person. In total 26 students from B.Sc attended the lecture.
In his lecture Mr Sachin spoke different types of pranayama and also demonstrated the same. He also spoke about meditation and emphasized on the techniques of meditation.