YOGA FOR STUDENTS

 “CLOSE YOUR EYES AND OPEN YOUR MIND”

Hello beautiful people! I hope you are doing great. We all know about yoga and how greatly it benefits one’s body as well as the mind. Since the 80s, the ancient Indian discipline of yoga has taken the western world by storm. Furthermore, after this popularity of yoga, India became known for yoga worldwide. People all over the world have started to realise the benefits of yoga, but before we go deeper into that, I would like to help you understand the true meaning of yoga. And no, it’s not only done by old aunties and uncles who get bored on the weekends sitting cross-legged and contorting their bodies in some poses but there is so much more. With over 800 styles of yoga there’s a bigger understanding and purpose behind why it helps in easing and soothing the mind in an individual’s difficult time. 

Yoga is basically a spiritual discipline which is based on an extremely subtle science that concentrates on bringing harmony between mind, body & soul. There are so many different kinds of yoga practices and most importantly, it is possible for anyone to start practicing yoga at any point of time in their lives. Whether you’re a couch potato or a professional athlete, size and fitness levels do not matter because there are modifications for every yoga pose and beginner classes in every style. The idea is to explore your limits, not strive for some diamond-like perfection. It is a great way to get in tune with your body and your inner self.

Now coming to the benefits of Yoga for us students, the major benefit that we can reap is “reduced stress” as students tend to get compressed in a ton of workload and tension from school work and from the anxieties of our life outside the four walls of our school. This may include the stress from our social media statuses as well, which in our century is given a high pedestal too! 

Yoga can help cope with the stress because it promotes relaxation, which inculcates peace and positivity in our lives. But you don't have to wait to feel stressed out to do yoga, and you shouldn't! People who do a little bit of yoga each day, often find themselves better equipped to handle things when life gets a little crazy. Practicing yoga builds your ability to calm, focus, balance, and relax yourself. 

All in all, Yoga is highly beneficial for us students and before I conclude, I would also like to add that it gives me personally, immense peace and mindfulness. I hope this helps you as much as it helped me. 

- Esha Bafna (Team SYNC Snippets)

SPIRITUAL SIDE OF YOGA

 

Hey, Hii, Hello, Hola everyone! I hope everyone finds this in good health. Everyone goes through a lot of things every day, some happy moments, some sad, some are busy with their hectic schedule or some enjoy with their friends and family, some are going through a good phase, and some are through the bad. Everything we go through or anything that is happening in the surrounding has a huge impact on our mindset. Our mind is working 24*7 thinking either about the past which is never going to change or anticipating the unpredictable future. This negatively impacts the mind and disturbs mental health. 

          Spiritual yoga which is nothing but the connection of spirit with ourselves helps to gain freedom from all those thoughts and brings us back to the present. Not only this but also it helps in getting ourselves connected to our real selves. Breathing through the tough poses teaches us to breathe even during the worse phase of life. The asanas that are related to physical flexibility not only provide flexibility to the body but also increases our mental flexibility and bring backs a positive attitude such as the "we can do it" attitude. Stretching in the yoga poses to your limit without comparing with others, can lead to an attitude to do your best and let go. This attitude also helps in overcoming stress. 

Spirituality is the inner core and adds happiness to life. And on the spiritual side of yoga, yoga also focuses on mental Peace where we work through Emotional stress and psychological challenges. And without the spiritual side of yoga, yoga is just a stretch class or a gym session. Yoga never teaches us to get rid of negativity by gaining control of ourselves rather it teaches us to face all the situations no matter what just by being ourselves and with our experiences. So basically spiritual yoga helps us to live in the present, refreshes our mind, and brings back a positive attitude in our lives. 

Meditation helps to keep ourselves calm. So lets us come off the busy schedule, out of those thoughts, and let's stabilize our mental health, let's meditate. 

Let's bring back those pretty smiles to our faces!! 😊

- Honey Shah [Team SYNC]

SYNC -A Rollercoaster Ride

SYNC – A Roller coaster ride!

We often start our college life with uncertain feelings; the feeling of being anonymous in this phase of life. With all our dreamed-up and fancied expectations that come out of movies (or series), we enter into the actuality and, it eventually gives us a reality check. But like the two sides of a coin, this reality check too has peaks and valleys within it. Constant lectures, assignments, projects, and exams definitely make us go "oh, no!" Nevertheless, clubs like SYNC can change this into a delight with no ifs and or buts.

From fitness to newness, from exercise to good vibes, from mental peace to stress relief, we at SYNC have this all-embracing within. Speaking about the journey of SYNC, this previous year was full of activities, workshops, and events like never before. Since the beginning of the year, the club had planned a lot of stuff to be carried out this time. Workshops on Mandala art, offline yoga, bolly folk Garba, Zumba, self-care yoga, meditative art, stick yoga, offline Zumba, HIIT, Music Therapy and much more. SYNC had also organized several activities for the teaching and non-teaching staff of the college to give them a relaxation break from their hectic schedules. To make a "December to Remember" the club had planned a 30 Days Yoga Challenge where it created 30 videos (Instagram reels) pertaining to various methods of fitness. All the hard work and diligence paid off with the success of this 30 Days Challenge. Nearing the end of 2021, SYNC members began fastening their seat belts for those three days that mean the world to them. Yes, Elysium 2022! Right from planning to the execution, SYNC members and the Apex sweated blood to make the biggest and only fitness fest of Mumbai a superhit grand show this time. The fest was planned to be held on 15th, 16th, and 17th March 2022, completely offline in the long run of online events. Later, the team had a crazy fun after-party. 

In the upcoming year, SYNC wishes to continue the same energy and enthusiasm alongside new activities and events. SYNC aims at fostering good health and mental peace for every other individual who plays a part in it because the best club deserves the best team!

We will, we will, SYNC it!

Happy reading, thank you!

- Vaishnavi Magar (Team SYNC)

How we decided to lead SYNC Club: Apex relives their time as members!

 

The best part about our lockdown was to join the SYNC Club of HR College of Commerce and Economics!! We are extremely delighted to be a part of a community, a safe space where we interact with like-minded people with innovative ideas who come together to create something with a strong passion, to cultivate leaders through health, fitness and wellness.

Although, just like anyone else- we felt nervous and initially decided to make our mark by trying out something different to fit in. Today we happily call ourselves the presidents, vice presidents and the executive directors of this club.

The first initial phases of joining SYNC were rather exciting, we got to meet new people, understand a different perspective and most importantly, learnt to work in a team. However, there was of course a series of self doubt and acceptance early in that stage as we were new. Hence, we would be extremely active in our meetings, during events and had a point to put in almost everything. That's how we began getting involved in the club. Our ideas, thoughts and opinions were always considered and pondered upon, which made us feel like we belonged to this club unlike most others.

From there- a series of learning, trying out new things and being able to come to a conclusion with a plethora of ideas was something we learnt. Reflecting back to those memories that we made, as members, to the times we have spent with our SYNC Family, our message to anyone reading this is, take initiative. If you join something new, it is important that you try pushing for ideas, and make sure that they are implemented correctly. At SYNC, it is easy to share what we want to. It is an exciting and enriching journey to lead this group of people in May 2021.

To conclude, we would also like to add that making mistakes and taking the opinion of others within the work we do at SYNC helps us grow in leaps and bounds! As leaders, team work- learning from observation is something that everyone should be exposed to and that's how little by little, a little becomes a lot. This is the kind of journey that you as an individual must experience in your college life as it only helps you even in your personal life. Joining SYNC was the highlight of our college life, and hosting Mumbai's biggest and only college fitness festival, Elysium that will take place on 15th, 16th and 17th March, we are super stoked to organise this festival!

After the time we spent at home and throughout the events conducted virtually, it only adds up to our excitement and joy to welcome you to an offline three day fitness extravaganza. Don't worry, not just fitness enthusiasts, but all college students are invited to join us for the fest. Our team has put in so much effort, time and patience with the behind the scenes of Elysium. 

Truly, SYNC has been able to help us identify our Elysium (which means happiness) and through the activities and events of this club, we help you find your inner happiness and that's the same reason why we would recommend anyone interested to join the club.

SYNC helped us grow, evolve and learn with time, and it happens to be the best highlight of our college life!

- SYNC Apex💚

SYNC 2021 Wrap : Revisiting our events!

We have come a long way! In retrospect, it's still just the beginning for SYNC! 🤭?

We're delighted to end the year with a bang! 2021 is about to end and we thought, why not take you guys down the memory lane to revisit all the fun events, workshops and sessions that we organised throughout the year to make sure that the students of HR College were not only fit and healthy, but also enjoyed their time with the club activities.

We are indeed grateful to have brought about a change in the lives of the backbone of HR College, the teachers and non-teaching staff. Not to forget our very own brand ambassadors as our Principal Pooja ma'am calls us, this club had sessions for one and all!

During the year, the members of SYNC Club organised some memorable workshops amidst all the ups and downs that it faced. Let's get to them now:

SYNC was blessed to have Sadhguru's Isha Foundation conduct a specialised meditation and yoga session for its members. Following that line up, we had Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Foundation to discuss with our student audience- the importance of Life Skills.

A strong team needs great bonding and in order to fulfill it, SYNC organised intra club sessions solely for the members of SYNC to show their talents. Whether it was MMA by Navya, Zumba with Muskan, Khushi and Meghaana or Editing with Jatin, each unique talent was brought out to their fullest through this month!

Post these successful intra events, SYNC is able to relive offline college moments. We made sure to follow all the safety measures against the deadly COVID-19 that is still looming over us. Our first offline event was for our Non-Teaching staff in collaboration with Kaivalyadhama, a Yoga Workshop was organised in the college premises.

The moment we were waiting for in the past 2 years! An OFFLINE ZUMBA SESSION! IN COLLEGE! With STUDENTS and how can we forget our non-teaching staff! Can't imagine? Well, have a look yourself!

Despite the COVID restrictions, our staff members made sure to look after college well. This was just SYNC's way of doing a little something for them. Post this session, our SYNC members enjoyed a power packed Zumba session with Ms Richa Khanna.

 And that's all for 2021! There are big surprises for 2022 and it won't be fun if we reveal them right away🤭

Follow us on Instagram and YouTube to stay updated!

 We will see you all very soon with another interesting year, filled with workshops, events, fun and so much more to look after your health and wellness.

 Happy New Year!

 -SYNC Family

Christmas: What is Joy of Giving?

It is rightly said that:

Everyone can experience the joy and blessing of generosity, because everyone has something to give.

Christmas is one such festival which not only celebrates Love, Reconciliation and Peace but it also brings with it the traditional practice of giving a gift during Christmastide which is symbolic of the presentation of gifts by the Three Wise Men to the infant Jesus.

It also provides the chance to help those who are less fortunate than us and need more support. The same thing was done by SYNC as it donated Rice, Sugar, Biscuits and Bottled water in the Donation Drive for Chiplun and Mahad by NSS unit of HR college.

It also reminds me of the incident that how every Christmas in my school I got to selflessly serve the needy by providing them with necessities and once I also got to interact with a group of children living in a slum as a part of a wellness program to teach them.  The experience was a mind -boggling one as the immense pleasure I received after mingling with these children was unforgettable and still remains afresh in my mind because the warmth which they had and the enthusiasm which they showed towards learning made me believe in the fact that

 It's not always the bucks which are counted as giving, rather a small act of kindness is enough to make a person’s day, smooth their path or put a smile on their face.

 And that's when you should remember that you have offered something of yourself that is greater than anything materialistic. We often forget the fact that a gift's value isn't determined by its size or price, the true value and joy of a gift is how it makes the recipient feel cared for.

On this note I would like to terminate in the words of Mother Teresa that, “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

“Well, can you think of a time when a gift you gave to someone else filled you with the joy of giving?

Share some of those memories in the comments down below!

Merry Christmas from the SYNC Family!

- Diya Karnani (Team SYNC Snippets)

Why you should our 30 days Fitness Challenge today? : Find out with the reels!

SYNC has always been looking for new challenges, creativity and fun activities for you guys and recently we thought of taking up a 30-day challenge as we were bored by the same routines and other fitness videos so we decided to take up a bowl full of different types of fitness challenges for a month for four weeks.

I encourage you all to take part in this 30-day fitness challenge with SYNC as it deals with four types of fitness challenges namely yoga, workouts, Zumba and Pilates. I’m sure that you’ll enjoy this fitness challenge as it will keep you energetic, calm, Enthusiastic and if you are a fitness freak you should be a part of this. It will be fun if you take up these challenges with us as you can do it with your friends and compete with other clubs of our college. Not only does physical fitness help improve how one looks, it directly helps improve your mental well being.

 

Here are a few advantages of our challenge: 

Yoga improves strength, balance and flexibility, it also helps with back pain relief. Yoga can ease arthritis symptoms and improves heart health. Yoga relaxes you, to help you sleep better. On the other side workout helps you to control weight and also it helps you boost energy. Pilates helps to improves flexibility and increase muscle strength. Zumba in one such work out that is fun and it is great for weight loss and helps you cope up with the stress.

SYNC is delighted to bring to you, the 30 days Fitness Challenge! We hope you take this challenge up and join our team for all our fitness related events and activities throughout the year. 

For more information on how to join the challenge, check out our Instagram handle, follow us and begin your fitness journey today! Stay tuned for what you see on the page!

SYNC's fitness challenge is here! 

-Archi Jain (Team Reels)