Today was the second to last morning of yoga. Every morning for the past 2 weeks at 6:30 AM we've had the opportunity to watch the sun rise on the rooftop of our hotel while doing yoga with a local yogi.
Every yoga session begins with breathing exercises, then continues onto the more traditional yoga.
After the sun has risen enough to warm our backs, we know the morning yoga session is almost over. The last part of our sessions is always focused on relaxation (which I think everyone loves).
Anyway, another thing I've noticed before/during yoga is the morning haze off in the distance. It's there every morning (even if it's bright blue sky), which leads me to conclude that it's from pollution, which makes sense here because of the astounding number of people in such a small area (and all the dirt roads in and around the city). It's still kind of sad and surprising though.
After our morning yoga and breakfast concluded we went to Aravind to put finishing touches on each of our projects. Tyler mentioned in the January 6th blog post that our group was tasked with finding a way to increase the availability of information within the pediatric ward at Aravind. To do so, we created a series of 12 fun, easy to understand posters that would be placed throughout the pediatric clinic and general hospital. Our end goal is with these posters is to help inform patients and their families of typical eye problems present in children.
Our primary sponsors for this project, Dr. Vaji and Dr. Satiya, told us that on an average day 150 children may be seen in the eye clinic, and of those children, 50 may ask the same questions during their time with the doctor. We addressed many of these frequently asked questions in our posters with the goal of reducing the number of repeat questions asked each day.
In addition, by addressing the signs and symptoms of many common eye problems, we're hoping more people will be able to recognize eye/vision problems in children early on, thus allowing them highest chance of successful sight restoration and correction.
Our final presentation to the staff and faculty of Aravind will be tomorrow, but overall our group is very satisfied with the work we've done thus far.
(Kristi, Tyler, Maya)
Thanks for reading!
-Kristi Rasmussen
Every yoga session begins with breathing exercises, then continues onto the more traditional yoga.
After the sun has risen enough to warm our backs, we know the morning yoga session is almost over. The last part of our sessions is always focused on relaxation (which I think everyone loves).
Anyway, another thing I've noticed before/during yoga is the morning haze off in the distance. It's there every morning (even if it's bright blue sky), which leads me to conclude that it's from pollution, which makes sense here because of the astounding number of people in such a small area (and all the dirt roads in and around the city). It's still kind of sad and surprising though.
After our morning yoga and breakfast concluded we went to Aravind to put finishing touches on each of our projects. Tyler mentioned in the January 6th blog post that our group was tasked with finding a way to increase the availability of information within the pediatric ward at Aravind. To do so, we created a series of 12 fun, easy to understand posters that would be placed throughout the pediatric clinic and general hospital. Our end goal is with these posters is to help inform patients and their families of typical eye problems present in children.
Our primary sponsors for this project, Dr. Vaji and Dr. Satiya, told us that on an average day 150 children may be seen in the eye clinic, and of those children, 50 may ask the same questions during their time with the doctor. We addressed many of these frequently asked questions in our posters with the goal of reducing the number of repeat questions asked each day.
In addition, by addressing the signs and symptoms of many common eye problems, we're hoping more people will be able to recognize eye/vision problems in children early on, thus allowing them highest chance of successful sight restoration and correction.
Our final presentation to the staff and faculty of Aravind will be tomorrow, but overall our group is very satisfied with the work we've done thus far.
(Kristi, Tyler, Maya)
Thanks for reading!
-Kristi Rasmussen
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