The Malaysian Yoga Society (MYS) or Persatuan Yoga Malaysia was formally established as a mental and physical health-oriented humanitarian organization in November 2004 with the intention of bringing yoga to all – primarily the impoverished, unfortunate and underprivileged members of the society. It is a non-sectarian in nature, non-profit organization, MYS activities are purely in pursuit of crea
ting awareness and understanding of yoga, as a science of holistic self-development for individuals in society. We believe in in sharing this wonderful gift of yoga with people from all layers of the society and make it available to those who have no access to the mainstream yoga classes. Those who are socially or economically disadvantaged should not be refused the benefits of yoga, and we hope to reach out unconditionally to the abused women, single mothers, children from homes or orphanages, the poor and the needy. It will give them the internal physiological and emotional balance they need in order to progressively grow in many ways. In this direction, we have trained over 500 instructors via “Learn To Teach, Teach To Learn (LTTL)” programme since 2010. Under a meticulously compiled training programme based on a complete yoga curriculum and comprehensive teaching methods, the participants are provided with the basic skills of teaching yoga for beginners. We sets the objective to serve the society to get benefits of increasing awareness about the deep realities of yoga, its power to transform and elevate one’s life - via yoga based training programme, such as personality development Yama (restraint) & Niyama (observances), Yoga Asanas (postures), benefits of Yoga, the Shatkarmas (cleansing) techniques, Pranayama (breathing), Dharana (concentration) and Dhyana (meditation). NGO’s and volunteers who are also take part in the programme, which is equivalent to the Level 1 “International Yoga Instructor Course” run by the Malaysian Association of the Yoga Instructors, are encouraged to spread the knowledge of yoga to others, especially to the primary and secondary school students. Through this programme and our other core activities like the International Yoga Competition, Yoga Camps for the students, and most importantly the Karma Yoga (path of disciplined action) projects in various schools, orphanage homes, underprivileged homes, prisoners and non-profit organizations throughout Malaysia - we uplift, enhance and enrich the lives of thousands of children and adults over the years. The target is to spread the richness of Yoga to all and sundry regardless of race, religion, gender or financial standing. Yoga is known as science and all sciences bring experience through experiment, and in this case, through practice. There are two components in this science, one is internal evolution and the other is the evolution of the society. At a much deeper level, yoga is a dynamic form of inner engineering and a powerful transformative force that will create great harmony amongst the members of the community. With this end in mind, we continuously embark on projects which will improve our lives collectively - as one unit of a unified society. We organize group activities such as large-scale group physical yoga exercises, community projects and gatherings that are harmonious in nature, to promote external harmony which can be shared by everyone.
