(Minghui.org) As the pandemic spread around the world in the past two years, most people have been restricted from leaving their homes. Seeing the soaring number of infected people around the world every day, many people feel anxious, panicked, and at a loss for how to cope.
In these chaotic and uncertain times, Kalpana Lohani, Vice Principal of a school in Kathmandu, Nepal, said she’s found a good way to relax both physically and mentally.
“Now, I do all five Falun Dafa exercises every morning. I feel calm, alert, and healthy. I sleep better,” she said. “I feel so good and fortunate that I heard about them (the Falun Dafa exercises).”
Ms. Lohani attended a Free Online Falun Dafa Exercise Workshop held by Falun Dafa practitioners in India. To date, more than 5000 people attended the webinars and learned the five Falun Dafa exercises.
Learning Falun Dafa Exercises: “A Good Antidote to Deal with Stress”
The idea of teaching Falun Dafa exercises and meditation online began in India almost two years ago with the first wave of Covid 19 and the start of the pandemic’s curfews and lockdowns.
Archana, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Mumbai said that watching her son attend online classes for school gave her the idea of starting webinars to teach Falun Dafa exercises online. “It was difficult to teach people during the lockdown in person,” said Archana, “but it is possible to connect with people from every corner of the country through an online video conference app. Those who do not have a computer can connect through a mobile phone and learn the practice.”
Archana invited a few other practitioners. The response they got was encouraging and they knew they were on to a good thing. Many attendees said they felt learning the exercises and meditation online offered a ray of hope to increase peace of mind and immunity, since people were cooped up at home with outdoor activities totally restricted. Falun Dafa seemed like “a good antidote to deal with stress” and this was how the practitioners introduced the online classes.
Help and encouragement came in many ways and an Indian practitioner in the U.S. assisted with promotions and monitoring the traffic. Sumaya, a practitioner who is a fashion model by profession, says, “As soon as I was invited to demonstrate the exercises online, I immediately agreed. I’ve benefited so much from practicing Falun Dafa that I would like to share it with everyone.” Sumaya added, “Many people were curious about Falun Dafa’s origins, as no one had ever heard of it. A lot of them were curious about the exercise movements and the reasons behind them.”
Since the webinars started in April 2020, about 12,000 people registered for the webinars, and over a million people in India have seen the social media posts about Falun Dafa. Ms. Lohani is one of those who registered for the workshop after reading a post related to Falun Dafa on a social media.
Another Falun Dafa practitioner Yuvraj who helps demonstrate the exercises said, “After attending online workshops, a few participants wanted to practice the Falun Dafa exercises on a regular basis. To accommodate them we organised daily time slots.”
