2024 INSPIRING COMMUNICATIONS 20: SHARING WELL-BEING through YOGA Cross-University International Communication 2

May 17th 2024: Graduate Student’s Sumei HUANG & Yoh INOUE, University of Tsukuba-TIAS2.0 and TAIIKU visit HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY

– and join the YOGA class for undergraduate students with TOSHI OGURA sensei, who says: “We had a good day with Sumei and Yoh. ‘Yoga and friendship’. It is nice to see how Sumei is keep growing! – I think it works both ways to learn each other. Our yoga classes have similar philosophies to your program even though we currently have only undergraduate courses. We do more than asana, practice yoga as part of our lifestyle, have diverse students of different majors, domestic and international students, active interactive class discussions, have dedicated teaching assistant (TA) students etc.”

How did it start? A Graduate Student, who has studied and practiced/taught asks – What is Yoga for? What is it really for? and, What can we do with Yoga??? Answer = Do it, Share it, Experience it, Learn it, Yoga is a lifestyle, not a one-day thing, not a yoga studio (no disrespect), not an event, much more – a DAILY HABIT requiring CONTINOUS LEARNING – A LIFETIME. Are you ready to DDD = Do it, Devote yourself to it, Develop it???? The answer lies in yourself, YOGA is a COMMUNICATION WITH SELF and thereby OTHERS.

Gen sensei mentions: Until now, you have only seen yourself. This time, for the first time, you may have had the opportunity to see someone as a mirror of yourself. What I mean by that is that you were able to empathize with other people’s worries and anguish by overlapping them with your own.

－ May 17th 2024 YOGA at Hitotsubashi REPORT.pdf