(Minghui.org) When schools in India reopened following summer break, Falun Dafa practitioners in Nagpur wanted to introduce the exercises to students to help them in the new school year.

They held workshops in Chimur, located 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Nagpur, for students in the village’s four schools, so they could learn the Falun Dafa exercises. Four workshops were held on July 3, 2024, and hundreds of students and faculty attended.

Before demonstrating the exercises, the practitioners introduced Falun Dafa and told attendees about its guiding principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and how all practitioners strive to live by them. They also explained how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as a part of its crackdown against faith, has been persecuting the practice in China since 1999.

800 Pupils Enjoy Peace and Calmness Through the Falun Dafa Exercises

Kiran Umare, a supervisor at Nehru Vidyalaya and Junior College, Chimur, immediately granted permission for the practitioners’ workshop after learning that they traveled from Nagpur to demonstrate the Falun Dafa exercises. Approximately 800 students from grades 8 to 10 learned the exercises. Afterwards, the students said they felt relaxed, at ease, and serene.

Students attentively listened as practitioners introduced Falun Dafa.

Students followed the practitioners’ hand movements.

Students doing the fifth Falun Dafa exercise.

“We are grateful to you for teaching our students the Falun Dafa exercises,” a staff member said. “We had the chance to learn about it alongside them, and it’s something new and refreshing for us. The students’ response is positive, and I have no doubt that the lessons we learned today will come in very handy for both us and our pupils in the future, as we will try to regularly do the exercises and work to maintain our physical well-being.”

Students Feel Falun Dafa’s Calming Effect

Mr. Upare, an assistant teacher at Nehru Primary School in Chimur, helped to coordinate the event and lined his students up so that they could do the exercises. After they did them, the students said they felt more focused and relieved from the heat and humidity outside. Suvarna Raut, the principal of the school, thanked the practitioners for coming to teach her students.

Students learn the second exercise.

Students meditate.

Fourth Grader Wishes to Continue Doing the Exercises

At Z.P. Primary School No. 2 Chimur, Principal Varsha Nimje was delighted when she heard that practitioners wanted to teach Falun Dafa to her students. She immediately scheduled a session, which was attended by about 30 students.

A practitioner puts up a poster on the school’s notice board.

Students at Z.P. Primary School do the second exercise.

A fourth grade student said he wanted to do the exercises again.

A smiling fourth grade child approached practitioners after the session and said he was delighted. “I felt a Falun rotating in my abdomen, and I felt better and more invigorated right away after doing the exercises,” he said. “I want to do the exercises two more times.”

Happy After Doing the Exercises

At New Rashtriya Vidyalaya School, Principal Sunil Khobragade gave her consent for practitioners to hold a workshop. A yoga instructor at the school, Mrs. Rokde, helped practitioners organize 200 students during the exercise session.

The students said that doing the exercises made them feel very good, and one student said he felt happy, like “after playing a good game” outside.

In spite of the hot weather, students learned the second exercise in the school corridors.

Students learn the second exercise.

The students were shocked to learn about the persecution of Falun Dafa in China by the CCP.