Smart citYoga (Dubai 2024)

Smart citYoga (Dubai 2024)

Welcome to the future of wellness with Smart citYoga! Join us for a unique experience blending urban innovation and yoga practice. Let's flow through sun salutations while embracing the high-tech landscape of Dubai 2024. Connect with like-minded individuals, explore digital wellness tools, and find peace in the hustle and bustle of a smart city. Don't miss this opportunity to harmonize body and mind in the city of tomorrow!

Introduction

Yoga, derived from the Sanskrit word “Yuj,” means the union of the body, breath, and mind. Yoga, as a way of life, constitutes asanas, regulated breathing (pranayama), and awareness of yoga sutras (principles) that govern the mind. Yoga, by acting through various biological pathways, helps mitigate the risk factors that cause noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

Regular practice of yoga enhances awareness of mind and body and promotes self‑discipline.

Yoga has been suggested as a low‑cost adjunct therapy for obesity and as an endocrine therapy.

To achieve its full promotive and preventive potential in urban dwellers, yoga needs support that smart cities can provide.

Smart Cities concept has been evolving since the 90’s and, nowadays, it means anything but technology. Even if tech is present in any project, smart cities are becoming more human-driven centered projects, or, at least, they should. Digitalization of cities will bring a better optimization of processes but what about mindfulness and wellness? What about freedom? Free spirit, free will, and free body. In the end, the mind will control all aspects of living in the future and, let’s hope, will not be Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The project

In a groundbreaking fusion of technology and wellness, the innovative project intertwining Smart Cities and Yoga emerges as a beacon of holistic urban development. Envisioned as a harmonious symphony between the urban landscape and human well-being, this project seamlessly integrates state-of-the-art technological infrastructure with ancient yoga practices. Picture a city where smart sensors not only monitor environmental factors but also adaptively adjust public spaces to promote mindfulness and physical well-being. Imagine bustling intersections transformed into serene yoga hubs at dawn, where citizens seamlessly blend tech-assisted yoga routines with the rhythm of the city. Through this visionary initiative, the ethos of balance and tranquility permeates every aspect of urban life, offering a transformative experience where technology and spirituality converge to foster healthier and happier communities.

How it works

The sessions will last around 2 or 3 hours and will start with Yoga practice. After the initiation, sounds and videos will be displayed and some interaction talking will take place. Will be the recreation of the Polis, and everyone will have the opportunity to share their philosophical view about the future of our cities.

Along with these thoughts some expert insights will be available also, to cross mind, soul, and technologies in a deep breath.

After exercises and expert considerations, everyone will be invited to choose what’s the best Yoga position for their self-building temple. Let’s just imagine cities in Yoga positions. Let’s just imagine a world with peace of mind and soul.

Who?

Luísa Baptista, a yoga practitioner since 2010, completed her yoga instructor training in 2013 and renewed her certification in 2017 at the Freeflow school in Porto. She is certified by the International Yoga Alliance with 200 hours of training.

Her passion for the arts and music has always accompanied her and aided in her creative process, which is ever-present in her journey. She loves to dance and uses this tool to connect with her essence.

The quest for spirituality began early in Luísa's life; since childhood, she has sought truth and wisdom. To align and harmonize in this quest, Luísa needs to be in tune with nature and its rhythms, as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle that allows her to care for her body, vital energy (prana), emotions, and consciousness. In her work as a yoga teacher, she focuses on this vision and always seeks to transmit techniques that increase vital energy and vibration.

Currently, Luísa has been engaging in internal work related to connecting with her feminine energy, tantra, and other self-care practices for women.

Vitor Pereira, Miracle Aligner, Innovator & Dreamer of a better world through Creative and Smart Cities

Journalist and Communication Expert, Creative and Visionary Strategist and Deep Thinker, he is part of the exclusive shortlist of ‘pioneers’ for the Smart Cities topics discussions.

Co-Founder of ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIES ASSOCIATION, a ‘gnostic’ platform with heart and soul for the future, Co-Founder of SMART CITIES PORTUGAL CLUSTER.

International Speaker and Contributor, Chair and Coordinator of numerous events around the world and specialized content platforms.

Working with Cities, Universities and Private Corporations to develop roadmaps and strategies for Smart Cities, Smart Regions, Smart Tourism.

First awarded with the prize of Personality of the Year Smart Cities Live 2015 (Portugal), awarded for the first time within the frame of the Green Business Week, an initiative of the AIP Foundation.

Winner of THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD 1st edition 2018, an initiative from “Smart to Future” (Uk’s Global Smart Cities event).