Anurag Bende

yoga

Domestic Violence Act

Rights Movement

MRM

stress

Chandrakant Deoda

software engineer

the practice

Yogesh Kadam

Sahaj yoga

women

While law experts and the judiciary have expressed concern over the misuse of the, not many have tried to ease the trauma that family members of the litigants — wrongfully accused of domestic violence — have faced. Coming to the rescue of such anguished kin of litigants is the Men’s), which suggests embracing yoga to tide over the difficult period in their lives.On Sunday, MRM organised its first such yoga session in Chinchwad to help reducefor the families, attended by over 100 people. Now, seeing the response from relatives of litigants, organisers have decided to conduct more such sessions across the state., awho came up with the idea of de-stressing through yoga, said he was happy with the response. “No other organisation is holding such classes for kin of persons falsely accused of domestic violence. I thought about it and was lucky to receive the support of like-minded people,” he said.The three-hour yoga workshop was divided into two sessions — in the first half, MRM members explained various provisions of the Domestic Violence Act to participants, and in the next half, yoga sessions were conducted.“Not only litigants, but their entire families go through much trauma and stress. Constant rounds of courts, paying huge fees to lawyers, all adds to frustration. Sometimes their anger turns to violence. Therefore, we thought of addressing their needs throughof yoga, which is the best medicine to destress,” added Deoda.Happy to attend the session,told Mirror, “The session on the Act was very informative but what really caught my attention was the, which is refreshing. I am looking forward to attending other sessions as well.”Not just men butalso attended the yoga session at Chinchwad. Meera K, whose brother is facing a domestic violence case, said, “The session was an eye-opener for me. Normally, when we think of marriage disputes, we tend to hold a man responsible for it. However, after attending the workshop, I realised that some women have been blatantly misusing the Act as well, leading some men to suffer. The session truly helped some of us to reduce our mental stress.”