Students get stress-buster

In 2003, Yin Yan cofounded Yogi Yoga with Indian yoga master Man Mohan Bhandari to promote yoga in China.[Photo provided to China Daily]

A yoga center in China is doing a tour to 10 top Chinese universities in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai to teach students to fight anxiety and depression

Dozens of students at Tsinghua University were practicing yoga in a stadium, with demonstrations by a yoga teacher onstage.

It's part of Yogi Yoga's recent public-service campaign to tackle the problem of depression and anxiety among Chinese university students.

The yoga center in China is doing a tour to 10 top Chinese universities in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai to teach students to fight stress via yoga.

Yogi Yoga aims to benefit 100 universities in total within 100 days and calls for universities to organize yoga classes and say they will send volunteers to teach students.

"I want to share authentic Indian yoga with others. Some yoga practice can help young Chinese students enjoy campus life, rather than suffer stress and anxiety," says Yin Yan.