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Cecilia Wang (阿兆) is a Masters student in CHBE at UBC. She first began exploring mindfulness to manage exam stress and used guided meditation tracks to help with falling asleep when she was 18 years old. She believes that community is important to support and reinforce one another’s practice, which is why she is restarting this club!

 

 

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Prashanth H N Rao is a certified yoga trainer proficient in the practice and study of Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga,  teaching methologies and Ethics and Lifestyle. He is adept in various types of mindfulness and meditation practices such as breathing, progressive relaxation, chanting, chakra and five sheath meditation. He also conducts wellness sessions at workplaces.

 

Prashanth believes that a healthy soul recides in a healthy body and give prominence to overall wellbeing. Being an Engineer himself having working experience in leading roles in corporate companies, he believes in the all-round development covering all facets of human endeavours.

His teaching methodology involves developing gradual awareness about our inner self and expanding the consciousness level of our minds. He believes aim of Yoga or meditation is to bring the normally unknown layers of mind to conscious perception. Similar to all external journey that requires a vehicle, the journey into inner space also requires a vehicle and this vehicle is meditation.

Prashanth strongly affirms that this doesn’t  lead to abondonment of the external world. On the contrary, it leads to even more growth, enjoyment and accomplishment in day to day activities. Life would be an expression of pure joy and unhindered bliss.