The programme of Physical Education occupies an important place in the system of Integral Education. The physical or the body is our material basis. It houses in it all other beings: the vital, the mental and the psychic. The body is a being of habits and needs culture or training with specific objectives for its development.
“… By means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple so that it may become in the material world a fit instrument for the truth-force which wills to manifest through us“
– The Mother
- • Control and discipline of the functioning of the body
- • An integral, methodical and harmonious development of all the parts of the body
- • Correction of defects and deformities, if there are any
- • Right postures, positions, movements of the body
- • Coordination between various parts of the being
- • Developing flexibility, agility, grace, balance
- • Developing strength and stamina
- • Balanced food and diet
- • Cleanliness and hygienic habits
- • Rest and sleep
- • Regular exercise for body fitness
- • Prevention of and resistance to diseases
- • Developing beauty and harmony in the body
- • Various indoor and outdoor games and sports, tournaments
- • Yogasans and Pranayam (breathing exercises)
- • Gymnastics and Malakhamb
- • Health checkups and health awareness programmes