Objectives
The course will enable the student teachers to:
· Help them to understand the concept of holistic health, its various dimensions and determinants and the importance of sports and yoga for development of holistic health
· Develop positive attitude towards health as individual and be collectively responsible to achieve it
· Equip them to know their health status, identify health problems and beinformed for taking remedial measures
· Make them aware about rules of safety in hazardous situation (illness, accident and injury) and equip them with first aid measures about common sickness andinjuries;
· Encourage them to learn and to form right habits about exercise, games andsports, sleep, rest and relaxation
· Sensitize, motivate and help them to acquire the skills for physical fitness, learncorrect postural habits and activities for its development
· reate interest for the practice of yogasanas and meditations through which they learn the skills/art of self-control, concentration, peace and relaxation to avoid illeffects of stress, strain and fatigue of routine life
· Help them to understand and develop skills to deal with psycho-social issues including those, related to process of growing up during adolescence, HIV/AIDSand substance abuse
· Understand various policies and programmes related to health, physicaleducation and yoga and
· Help them to understand the process of assessment of health and physicalfitness.