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Yoga Practice - Badhakonasana

Badhakonasana is popularly known as the Butterfly Pose and sometimes also as the Cobbler Pose. The yoga pose works wonders for the lower body, especially the thighs, knees, and groin. The easy-to-do, yet highly effective yoga posture calms your body, opens your hips and stretches your lower muscles. While it is extremely simple, the butterfly pose has a whole lot of benefits to its credit. 

How To Do The Badhakonasana?

1.  With a firm and straight spine, sit down on your Yoga Mat.

2. Adjoin the soles of both your feet by bending your knees and also bring them closer towards the pelvis.

3. Hold both your feet tightly with your hands. Also, you may place your hands below the feet for support.

4. Doing so, make a gentle effort to bring the heels a little closer to the genitals.

5.  Now, take a deep breath in. Slowly, breathing out and press the thighs and knees down towards the floor.

6. Continue with the gentle effort to keep pressing them downwards.

7. Breathing normally, start flapping both the legs up and down like the wings of a butterfly. Keep breathing normally throughout the process.

8. Start slow and gradually increase speed. Fly higher and higher, as fast as you comfortably can.

9. Gradually, slow down and then stop. Take a deep breath in and as you exhale, bend forward, keeping the chin up and spine erect.

10.Press your elbows on the thighs or on the knees, pushing the knees and thighs closer to the floor.

11.Feel the stretch in the inner thighs and take long, deep breaths, be aware and relax the muscles more and more.

12. Take a deep breath in and bring the torso up.

13.As you exhale, gently release the posture. Then, slowly straighten the legs out in front of you and relax.

Benefits of Badhakonasana

1) A good stretch for the inner thighs, groins and knees, improving flexibility in the groin and hip region.

2) Helps in intestine and bowel movement.

3) Removes fatigue from long hours of standing and walking.

4) Offers relief from menstrual discomfort and menopause symptoms.

5) Helps in smooth delivery if practiced regularly until late pregnancy.

Contraindications of the Butterfly Pose 

If you are suffering from groin or knee injury, make sure you keep a blanket under the outer thighs for support. Do not perform this pose without blanket support. Also, sciatica patients should either completely avoid the pose or sit on a cushion to raise the hips. If you have any lower-back disorders, do the posture only while keeping the spine erect. Avoid rounding up the spine by bending forward.

Camp Day 5

Workshop on Community Productive Work- Mask making and distribution

Our classmate Awani took a session for us on mask making. She detailed us on the exact measurements to take for making a medium sized mask. She even gave us tips to get the stitching right. We were supposed to make five masks each and distribute it to neighborhood homes.

We were happy to have this session as we could contribute to the society. Mask has become an indispensable part of our lives now and to contribute in that aspect was indeed the best community productive work we could have.

The five day camp gifted us with innumerable experiences and learning. It almost seemed as the dynamic side of all the theories and ideas we learnt through the course of these two years. Each and every activity we had be it; news reading, to tea distribution, to organizing of cultural events gave us the insights on collaborative work and the magnitude of its success when compared to monotonous decision making.

We all had divergent opinions as natural as it can be but through the camp we acquired the temperament to sit together and work out things in common consensus. That was indeed the best of development we could reap.

 

Camp Day 4

 Session 1

Know Thy Self by Mr. Rahul M V, Assistant Professor in Education, GUCTE, Thycaud

The session by Mr Rahul was a peaceful one. He had a very pleasant way of taking class and he began it by narrating his childhood experiences and his unfathomable gratitude to his mother for making him the person he is today. Mr. Rahul also spoke immensely about his teacher and a lot of his neighbors who instilled humility and compassion. By quoting instances from his personal experiences he made us reminiscent our life and reinstated on the significance of being grounded. He made us do a lot of mind training activities and constantly reminded us that it is essential that teachers remain mindful and reflective of their practices.

The session by Mr Rahul was much needed as it boosted our confidence. Through various instances he made us realize what all we have overcome in life and positive thinking will always keep our sail flying high.

Session 2

Mock Parliament

By 1:45pm the afternoon session began with the teachers briefing the students on the procedure of Mock Parliament. Ms Keerthi Chandran (Sapphire house) was selected as the Chief Minister, Ms Aswathy (Emerald house) as the speaker and Mr.Nibin Sekhar (Ruby house) as the leader of the opposition party. Both the teams had 10 members each. The points of discussion included the pros and cons of the administration during the pandemic scenario 2019, effective distribution of the Covid vaccine and the Kerala gold scam. After having a heated argument the leader of the opposition party walked out and the session was dissolved.

Cultural Activities Session (Emerald House)

The session for exhibiting the cultural events began by 2:30 pm. The emcee for the event was Ms Parvathy JS. The members of the emerald house performed a number of individual and group events that enthralled the audience.

Session 3

Campus Cleaning

By 3:20 pm the student teachers had the afternoon recess in which the tea and snacks were served. After the refreshments the student teachers were directed to the campus cleaning program under the supervision of teachers. The houses Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby were assigned the cleaning responsibilities of the ground floor, first floor and second floor respectively. Towards the culmination of the cleaning activity the members of the emerald house distributed a mango drink to everyone and the college dispersed by 4:30 pm. 

 

Camp Day 3

On the third day we had our recreational trip to Green Tsavorite Farm Resort located at Varkala. We started from college by 9:15AM and reached the destination by 11AM. The owner of the farm Mr. Sudeep Aby John had a crew ready to lead us throughout the day. Initially they served us some ginger lime and biscuits. Then we had team building activities followed by a treasure hunt. The treasure hunt was indeed a walk back to nature, as we were to identify several plant species through it. A hunt through the 7 acre farm left us parched and the cordial staff treated us with buttermilk and spiced star fruit. Next we had adventure sports like rope gliding. By 1:30PM we had a scrumptious lunch.

Post lunch we had kayaking and mud volley ball. The mud volley was the best part of the day as our teachers too joined us.

The day was well spent and we had a good time relaxing with nature. We got to spend a lot of quality time with our friends and teachers and it was a wonderful experience.

Camp Day 1

 Session 1

Inaugural Session by Dr. Malini P M (Principal, KNM B.Ed         College, Kanjiramkulam)

The session by Ms Malini seemed like a forerunner to the camp. She made a theme presentation on the aspects of creativity in the field of education and it’s far reaching impacts. Ms Malini spoke about the rigidity and conformity that has been existent in the field of education like any other systems and the inhibitions they pose to advancement. Ms Malini reinstated on the core life skills and asked us to gauge its level of implementation in our daily lives. She concluded the session by reminding the student teachers the significance of being more patient, more tolerant and most importantly about being open to new ideas.

The session by Ms Malini was really refreshing. Though all she did was to brush up all our leaning of the past two years, she made us realize the significance of all those learning that we received.

Session 2

                     SCAMPER Your Thoughts and Actions 

Dr. Pramod, Assistant Professor in Education, Chinmaya Vidhyapeet, Ernakulam

The session by Mr. Pramod was an activity oriented interactive session that we thoroughly enjoyed. He gave us a set of riddles to solve and made us aware of the conformities we were clinging on to. He indirectly brought us to the point that conventional thinking is not always necessary. He channeled us through a collaborative learning activity ‘SCAMPER’.

Session 3

Workshop on Resume Preparation and Interview Skills by Mr. Vishnu Raj, Verbal Aptitude and Recruitment Process Trainer, Career Launcher Ltd

The session on resume preparation and interview skills was the best session we had during our camp. We were adept in pedagogy and theoretical background but had no idea on how to prepare our resumes or what to expect in interviews. Mr Vishnu had a very crisp and precise session. He began by briefing us on the different types of resumes and the occasions in which they are to be used. He gave us the entire structure of a resume and gave detailed pointers on what to include in them and what to exclude. Even though he made us to write down a lot, the class was interactive as well. He stated few sections and picked students randomly and asked them what they would include in those so that we know the general trend and he made necessary corrections in them. Towards the end of the session he gave the commonly asked interview questions and the most refined answers we could give for them.

The session of Mr. Vishnu was very informative and the ultimate need of the hour. He gave us all the relevant information we required and clarified all our doubts. We left the class skilled in preparing resumes and confident to attend interviews.