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HCCB joins hands with Forests by Heartfulness to advance its 25-lakh tree plantation initiative

November 10, 2022 TeluguSuperNews Leave a comment

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), one of India’s leading FMCG companies,has partnered with Forests by Heartfulness and other partners, to advance its 25-lakh tree plantation drive. The initiative by HCCB will cover multiple states in India and help to create a carbon sink of approximately 1500 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the next 3-5 years. HCCB and Heartfulness announced their partnership at the World Headquarters of Heartfulness Kanha, Village, Hyderabad

The first tranche of the drive in Telangana earlier this year saw the plantation of 7,500 saplings at ‘Bruhat Pattana Prakruti Vanam,’ in Ameenpur municipality encompassing an area of 5 acres, with another 7500 saplings going into avenue plantation. Hundreds of volunteers, HCCB employees, women self-help groups, community elders, villagers, pollution control boards, and forestry department officials have come together as part of the drive since then.

At least 1 lakh trees will be planted in Telangana by the end of this financial year.

Speaking about HCCB’s target of 25 lakh plantations, Neil Comerford, Executive Director & Chief Commercial & Sales Officer, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages said, “As we complete 25 years of our inception, we understand the importance of going above and beyond to ensure that our sustainability strategy remains current, coordinated, and aligned for maximum effectiveness. Establishing green belts is critical to the ecological balance of the states in which we operate. This initiative is not only an exercise in tree plantation but also a troika of carbon sink, community welfare, and ecological benefit. The initiative goes beyond the idea of just maintaining our social license and is a step towards ESG+ that is enhancing our sustainability efforts. On behalf of the HCCB, I would like to thank all the dignitaries who have extended their support for this initiative.”

Speaking about Heartfulness and HCCB’s association, Mr. Kamlesh Patel, (aka Daaji), President and Guide of Heartfulness said, “It’s very eventful to have Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages to be here joining hands with Forests by Heartfulness in their mega plantation drive. It’s yet another milestone in a corporate partnership with Forests by Heartfulness for a noble cause. There is a rising awareness of the seriousness of replenishing the green cover and growing more plants and trees. Forests by Heartfulness has been striving to save and propagate the endangered indigenous plant species because are the very treasures of our future generations. Children can tell how plants are important. As responsible people, we must serve as their role models by doing something in this direction and protecting mother nature. We are still making baby steps, but we are heading in the right direction. With more hands, we can bring back the green cover and safeguard mother nature. We encourage you to gift a sapling – something that is full of life and see the difference.”

HCCB joins hands with Forests by Heartfulness to advance its 25-lakh tree plantation initiative

The Forests by Heartfulness initiative promulgated many critically endangered indigenous plant species by employing the proprietary Heartyculture High Density (HCHD) plantation method. This method involves extensive soil reconstitution using Activated Biochar, Vermicompost, Cow manure, and Cocopeat. HCCB will facilitate the plantation of over 100 different species of trees to create a mini forest. The trees selected for the plantation drive are native, and endemic and support one another through an extensive root network and will be sourced from Heartfulness Institute.

Heartfulness & Ms. Sudha Reddy Host A Heart-to-Heart Talk With Pujya Daaji

November 5, 2022 TeluguSuperNews Leave a comment

Heartfulness and Ms. Sudha Reddy – Director of MEIL Group and Sudha Reddy Foundation hosted a very thoughtful session on transcendental thoughts and questions revolving around spirituality, inner self and dealing with the challenges of lifestyle in the current times and solutions to them from Pujya Daaji – Shri Kamlesh Patel Guide of Heartfulness at her residence on Friday. The talk was followed by a group Heartfulness meditation led by Pujya Daaji. The session was attended by spiritual connoisseurs and Heartfulness volunteers Friday evening.

Ms. Sudha Reddy said, “I had been long contemplating this and I am very obliged that Pujya Daaji took his time to make his gracious presence here today. It was amazing to have the solutions coming from him for all the many universal questions I had for quite some time which are pertinent not only to me, but also to many other women, mothers, and families out there. Lifestyles have changed drastically, suddenly the simple art of living is lot and there is chaos everywhere. Daaji gives simple and practical solutions to tackle all these challenges. You realise that they are something that are not just impressive by the ease of the solutions, but the fact that they are very actionable and approachable is what makes his teachings appealing.”

Shri Kamlesh Patel ‘Daaji’ said, “I had earlier said, ‘You are the experiment, you are the experimenter, and you are the outcome’. Today’s session showing us that there are so many eager, enthusiastic seekers of the Absolute Truth who irrespective of where they come from, they want to experience that Truth. Unless there is the desire to experience the Truth for oneself, there is no motivation to experiment in the first place. We are living in an age of spiritual awakening. It is pleasing to see that Sudha Reddy ji came up with such meaningful questions that are of significance to our society at large now. Many are bothered by the thoughts, but they possibly do not have a way out. Heartfulness meditation is the key to liberate oneself from the mire and confusion. With meditation comes awareness and focus, it gives rise to patience and wisdom, and most importantly teaches you to be happy under all circumstances. It gives me immense joy to see the participation here today that more and more people benefit from our meditation technique through Pranahuti.”

Ms. Sudha Reddy also unveiled ‘The Wisdom Bridge’, a new book from Pujya Daaji that has already taken the world of book-readers by storm. The book is a treasure-trove of wisdom on how and what it takes to raise a child. The book also has something for every generation and chalks out the golden ways to lead a life full of bliss. The book is already trending on Amazon with thousands of orders and still counting.

Heartfulness announces its first International Integrative Health and Wellbeing (IHW) 2022 Conference

November 2, 2022 TeluguSuperNews Leave a comment

Heartfulness, in association with its supporting organizations, has announced the first international Integrative Health Wellness (IHW) 2022 conference that will be held in Hyderabad between 16-18 December at Kanha Shanti Vanam – the Headquarters of Heartfulness. This one-of-a-kind conference includes conventional and integrative holistic approaches to health and wellness backed by research. The conference is supported by the Ministry of AYUSH, Dept. of Horticulture, Telangana, NIPER, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, NIMHANS, AIIMS Raipur, and Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University.

The IHW conference is expected to have over 3000 participants worldwide, including physicians, nurses, allied healthcare professionals, established and budding researchers, students, and wellness enthusiasts interested in pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical approaches to health and wellbeing. The medical fraternity will include members from across Allopathy and AYUSH streams of medicine.

The theme for this initial conference of IHW is “Inspire, Innovate and Integrate” which will explore the integrative practices for overall health and wellbeing and becoming the change in the world. The conference is intended to make the well-researched traditional and wisdom practices of health and wellbeing available to all. The conference is also intended to nurture a renewed sense of well-being to impact those around us.

Experts and thought leaders will share their research, experience, and wisdom in the field of health and well-being through presentations, panel discussions, and group activities. The conference will also include abstract submissions from participants in the fields of conventional as well as complementary health and well-being traditions. The selected abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings as posters or oral presentations.

The key speakers at the event will include Shri Kamlesh Patel ‘Daaji’ – Guide of Heartfulness; Dr. M. R. Jayaram, Chancellor, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Dr. Randeep Guleria, Ex Director, AIIMS, Dr. Jaideep Arya, Chief Coordinator, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Dr. Satbir Khalsa – Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Mr. Eddie Stern – Author, Yoga Teacher; Dr. Sara Lazar – Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Rollin McCraty – Director of research at the HeartMath Institute, professor at Florida Atlantic University; Dr. Chinmaya Pandya – Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya; Dr. Shirley Telles – Director at Patanjali Research Foundation; Dr. Shashi Bala Singh – Director at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad; Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati – Bestselling Author – Hollywood To The Himalayas: A Journey of Healing & Transformation; Dr. Raghavendra Rao – Director at Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt of India; Dr. Bindu Kutty – Professor, NIMHANS; Dr. Ranjani Iyer – Director, Heartfulness Program for Schools; Dr. Snehal Deshpande – Director of Heartfulness CME, India, Dr. K. Uma Devi,Professor, University Head (Retd.), PJTS Agricultural University, Dr. Krishnamurthy Jayanna – Professor and Dean, faculty of Life and Allied health sciences, MS Ramaiah University of applied sciences; Dr. Sachin Ranade – Senior Editor, Nature Neurosciences among others.

Ms. Ekta Boudrlique, Conference Convenor said, “There is a growing awareness now that the overall health depends not only the physical and physiological aspect of it, but also the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of wellness. Research has proven that meditation is one tool that helps in acquiring the perfect balance within thereby leading to holistic wellness. Heartfulness meditation through Pranahuti has been particularly beneficial in this regard as testified by various University studies and research in the US. Our panel of doctors here and elsewhere strongly believe in the integrity of these aspects for overall wellbeing.”

The esteemed speakers are slated to discuss the limited scope or complexity of Health to the common Citizen; patient-centric healthcare to empower patients to choose and integrate different approaches of medicine into their life; and cultivating a holistic approach to emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. The conference will host Panel Discussions, Presentations, Workshops, Exhibitions, Networking, Music, Yoga, and Meditation as part of the agenda.

Heartfulness And Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions India Come Together for A Green Initiative

August 25, 2022 TeluguSuperNews Leave a comment

Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions India (VWITS)joined hands with Heartfulness to inaugurate a mini greenery hub at Heartfulness Meditation Centre in Gurugram. The initiative comes as one of the many CSR initiatives of VWITS, this one involving raising a green hub and protecting and propagating endangered plant species with the help of Heartfulness. Over 60 attendees including the leadership team from VWITS and Heartfulness were present at the occasion. Earlier too, Heartfulness held joint initiatives with corporates in the ongoing efforts to protect indigenous plant species through their ‘Forests by Heartfulness’ programme across the country.

Speaking on the occasion Shri Kamlesh Patel ‘Daaji’, Guide of Heartfulness said, “I am very glad that corporates are coming forward to associate with us on the green initiatives. It goes to show that the message is reaching out there – that there is an urgent need to replenish our indigenous plant species. Trees are the true treasures we can have in the modern times because we want to pass on them and their benefits to our future generations. Think about the nature’s cycle going haywire due to felling of trees – climate-change, floods, desertification and what not. This is not something we want to hand down to the future. At Forests by Heartfulness we have helped save endangered and critically endangered species and trying to propagate them. If more and more people come forward and join hands with us, we are sure to save mother nature better.”

Mr. Sidharth Yadav – Chairman & Managing Director, VWITS said, “Our aim is to get one step closer to nature by giving back to it. At the Gurugram facility, we came up with the idea of making a mini-green hub to replicate the plant species that need special attention and propagation. This along with the knowledge transfer and sourcing from saplings from Forests by Heartfulness can go a long way in doing our bit for mother nature.”

This also happens to be VWITS’s third in tandem of the green initiatives while it is for the first time Heartfulness is undertaking a project on the green front in the NCR region. Earlier, VWITS introduced Green Clubs in Pune City to promote awareness and experiential learning on bio-diversity, environmental issues, conservation of water and energy among others. Once this experimental pilot mini-hub is successful, it will entail signing of MoU between VWITS and Heartfulness with a likelihood of growing more than 5,000 sapling plantation drive in Pune and other cities of India.

The objective of this effort is to conserve the rare and endangered Indian native species that can also help in attracting bio-diversity including bees, butte rflies, birds and squirrels. Through Heartyculture High Dense Forest methodology, in the past more than 1600 plants of around 50 varieties of shrubs and trees were densely planted at Kanha Shativanam – Hyderabad (Global headquarters of heartfulness Institute) resulting in explosive growth of the trees within a short frame of time of 12-18 months which gives hope for replicating something similar.

Youth from across the world waved the Indian National Flag at the world’s largest meditation center at Heartfulness Institute Hyderabad

August 11, 2022 TeluguSuperNews Leave a comment

At least 275 youth from across the world joined in the National Tiranaga campaign at Kanha Shanti Vanam – the Heartfulness Headquarters in Hyderabad. Each of the individuals carried a national flag cheering for India in front of the world’s largest meditation centre at Kanha Shanti Vanam. The youth arrived at the Heartfulness headquarters for the International Rising With Kindness Summit which is slated between 12-14 August. The National Tiranga campaign comes a day before the Kindness summit as a tribute to 75 years of India’s independence. The event was made all the more significant with participants from other countries coming together holding the tricolour flag. The event took place at 9.00am at Kanha Shanti Vanam.

One participant said, “We are very happy to be here as part of the Heartfulness arising With Kindness Youth Summit which is coinciding with India’s 75th Independence Day. It’s a great joy to take part in these celebrations at Kanha Shantivanam along with the 275 youth in front of this magnificent meditation centre which is the world’s largest.” Yet another international participant said, “For us Heartfulness centre and India are like a home. There are so many magnificent things this country and the Heartfulness Meditation practise has to offer to us. While we are here to be part of the Heartfulness Rising with Kindness youth summit, being part of India’s Independence Celebrations brings a lot of joy to us. It was an exhilarating experience to wave the Indian flag along with the other youths here for the summit. The diversity, culture and feeling of being always welcome by this country is something that one cannot miss.”

Heartfulness has been organizing campaigns to help youth cultivate compassion and treat all equally. The upcoming Kindness summit is designed on the same idea, but even before the event kicked off, it has already attracted participants arrival at Kanha and be part of the Independence Day fervor. Many thought-leaders of repute, social media influencers and other prominent personalities and at least 10,000 participants from around the world will be at the Heartfulness Headquarters for the summit which is brought by Heartfulness, UNESCO MGIEP and AICTE and sponsored by Reliance Industries Ltd., and Jio Digital, and cosponsored by Zscaler and Adidez Institute Worldwide.