Preventing of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading through the yoga sūrya namaskāra practices at the Hindu Community in Mataram

I Wayan Ardhi Wirawan; Tihnov Koldoris; I Gusti Komang Kembarawan

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6n2.11416

Authors

I Wayan Ardhi Wirawan
ardhiwirawan@iahn-gdepudja.ac.id
Institut Agama Hindu Negeri Gde Pudja Mataram, Indonesia
Tihnov Koldoris Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
I Gusti Komang Kembarawan Institut Agama Hindu Negeri Gde Pudja Mataram, Indonesia

Keywords:

body immunity, health, prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic, yoga practice, yoga Sūrya Namaskāra

Abstract

This study aims to find out a way in overcoming the spread of COVID-19 pandemic by practicing the yoga Sūrya Namaskāra at Bali-Hindu communities in Mataram city, West Nusa Tenggara. This study uses an interpretive qualitative method in order to find a link between the practice of the yoga Sūrya Namaskāra carried out by a number of practitioners and the prevention of COVID-19. This research resulted in three new findings. First, the practice of the yoga Sūrya Namaskāra is the implementation of Hindu religious teachings as a form of worshiping Lord Sūrya through the discipline of yoga. Second, yoga practitioners believe that by doing the yoga Sūrya Namaskāra practice regularly, they can increase the body's immunity which can be used to prevent diseases in themselves. Third, increasing the body's immunity through the practice of the yoga Sūrya Namaskāra is believed to be able to prevent the occurrence of COVID-19 attacks.

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