What is Stop Diabetes Movement (SDM)?
SDM is a 40 hours Yoga Program designed to prevent, control and manage diabetes. This Yoga Program is proven by research to be helpful in management of diabetes. Participants first go through a free screening by a medical doctor to determine the general fitness to handle the program. The 40 hour Yoga training is given by certified, experienced yoga teachers.
Objectives:
The objective of this program is to help prediabetes individuals from becoming diabetic and help diabetic individuals to prevent, control and manage their pre-diabetic and diabetic condition.
1. Primary prevention: Prevent Pre-diabetics to become diabetics and
2. Secondary prevention: Preventing the complications; converting diabetes condition from severe to moderate, moderate to mild, and from mild to normal.
RESEARCH EVIDENCE: S-VYASA - a Yoga University in Bangalore, India, through its 30 years of research has proven that yoga lifestyle can change/impact:
Normalize blood glucose (Fasting and postprandial)
Normalize Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1C)
Reduce bad cholesterol & Increase good cholesterol
Normalize weight and BMI & Reduce oral medication
Reduce anxiety & depression & Improve quality of life
PROGRAM OUTLINE:
Yoga postures and stretches
Yoga breathing and relaxation
Stress management through yoga
Guidance regarding diet and nutrition for diabetics
Personal consultation from medical doctors
For more information contact:
Call/Text: Gautam @ 510-579-4742 or Seema @ 801-471-1729
Email: bayarea@sewausa.org
For registration:
Fill out form at http://www.brk.im/sdm1 and send to bayarea@sewausa.org
Registration fee
$150 (Fully refundable upon successful completion of 40 hour program and upon request in writing)
Enrollment Deadline : July 17th, 2016
MANDATORY PRE-SCREENING: July 17th, 2016 – Fremont
Note: Please bring your recent lab reports for fasting, random and post prandial sugar, Lipid profile and HbA1C reports and any related medical reports for your diabetes. You will have a Free pre-consultation with a medical doctor prior to the start of the Yoga Program.
For your convenience we are offering SDM program at two locations
VENUE:
Sunnyvale: Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, 450 Persian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA
Fremont: Olive Hyde Program Center, 123 Washington Blvd, Fremont, CA
DATES & TIMINGS:
Dates: 10 days – July 22 to 31, 2016
Time
Weekdays
Sunnyvale Location – 7:00 am to 9:00 am
Fremont Location - 6:30 pm to 8:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays:
9:30 am to 11:30 am – All participants
NOTE: Weekend sessions are held at 11469 Clayton Road, San Jose, CA
FOLLOW-UP SESSIONS:
Every Saturday starting August 6 through Sept. 24, 2016 for 10 weeks from 9:30am to 11:30am (all the sessions are compulsory)
This program is conducted with Yoga Bharati and co-sponsered by Sunnyvale Hindu Temple
