In the previous post, we suggested options for gym membership as an offbeat but highly effective mode to build a ‘healthy’ bond with friends and colleagues who really matter to you and to whom exercise matters owing to their hectic and stressed lifestyle.

You can help them in their quest to maintain themselves that much more with a ‘healthy’ gift. In this post, we shall consider an interesting Yoga-related gift idea. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is indeed a fine body of work.

In a short but sweet compilation, the magical personality offered insight into basic tenets of mysticism and various methods for experiencing altered states of consciousness; setting on a path to absoluteness.

Their website states: “Yoga stimulates the parasympathetic system and thus works against stress. Regular relaxation exercises help in developing the witness attitude and help one, to distance oneself from the apparent causes of stress.

Patanjali yoga, if carried out, true to its original spirit as mentioned in the yoga sutras, can truly calm you in body and mind. Right since 1918, the renowned Yoga Institute in the city of Mumbai (located in the serene suburbs of Santa Cruz) has been disseminating disciplined and graded lessons on

Yoga and has been publishing them in pocket editions. These act as a guide on Yoga and meditation practices. There are popular publications such as the ‘Yoga Asanas Simplified’.

It offers a perfect course of Yoga tenets for daily practice. The books, written by authorities like Shri Yogendra, have given a contemporary touch to the ancient science of Yoga.

The valuable offerings like books, VCDs and cassettes at the Yoga Institute present a balanced course of Yoga and techniques of rhythmic breathing during yoga. You can get books, VCDs and cassettes at the Yoga Institute, which make a timely gift under the circumstances.

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As we have suggested in the previous blog, you can consider gym membership as an off-beat but highly effective gift for building a ‘healthy’ bond in every sense. We suggest a few options to choose from…

Gold’s Gym
Launched in Venice California almost four decades ago, it soon became the hub for the development of fitness training, equipment and balanced nutritional concepts. Gold’s Gym received international acclaim. In 1975 when it was prominently featured in the movie ‘Pumping Iron’. It was established as the ‘Mecca of bodybuilding’.

Gold’s Gym is among the largest international gym chains across the globe, recognized for its unique heritage and experience in fitness and lifestyle management. The India chapter of Gold’s Gym began in 2002. Soon the branches grew.

Today Gold’s Gym has gym facilities in various cities like Chennai, Surat, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Kolkata, Jaipur, Noida, Ludhiana and Jalandhar. Promoted by partners Rajesh Advani, G. Ramachandran and Jagdish K Valecha, Gold’s Gym India has carved its niche in the Indian market.

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Moksh, the wellness place
Moksh provides Time to pause, and time to heal yourself. Their website mentions: “There comes a time just to pause, ponder, and rethink our life and its priorities. And this is one such time.”

One can try out yoga to find inner peace and joy; do cardio to stay fit; undergo strength training. Their nutritionist guides every member on weight management. Members can use the vibrogym to improve blood flow, and get therapeutic massages at their spa (Nirvana).

They can dance away their worries at the dance studio. This is an opportunity to find one’s feet and get rejuvenated at My Foot Reflexology. Kaaya, their salon, helps one glow.

Aren’t these perfect options for a special kind of a gift that would stay along for a longer time than a conventional gift?

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In a blog post, titled ‘Take a cue from Rani Mukerji for a fitness-friendly gift’ published in January 2009, Giftex had noted how the actor looked slimmer in a ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ song sequence.

The blog mentioned: “She indeed has lost about three kilos. This is because she is religiously and regularly sweating it out in the gym six days a week for over an hour. Media reports also suggest that she does at least three days of weight training followed by three days of yoga to burn fat.

Working out is not the only thing that she is doing to get a leaner body. Also on her agenda is diet control,” the Giftex post mentioned. She has gone a step further, and lost several inches around her bulging waist, as we informed in last week’s post.

Payal Gidwani, her trainer, has been famous for another popular Bollywood start Kareena Kapoor’s size zero look in Tashan. When she began teaching her yoga, it was not easy. She had hardly any stamina and she would often develop get cramps owing to problems with her nerves.

Payal then conceived a special regime for her comprising an hour and 15 minutes of yoga plus 45 minutes of walking. Slowly, it started showing desired results. The key, of course, is to diligently stick to your schedule. In fact, Rani now very much enjoys yoga. If Rani can, why not you and your near and dear ones?

We suggest you may gift books on healthy eating or low-fat food recipes to them. They would sure like to take a cue from their favorite Bollywood star. You can instill that extra awareness about fitness and importance of regular exercising with such a meaningful gift. You can well consider gifting a gym membership. Isn’t it a genuine gesture of care and love?
 

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If you are wondering how Bollywood starlet Rani Mukerji managed to shed all those extra kilos and unwanted flab before facing the camera for her latest film ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’, the answer is regular yoga practice.

Apart from following a meticulously planned weight training module, she attended yoga sessions, which appear to have done the trick. It took the actress, according to industry sources, almost close to a year to do away with those extra 10 kg, which made her body look a little inflated in front of the camera.

Determined to lost weight in a systematic and natural way, Rani Mukerji approached a team of yoga and fitness experts to get herself a slimmer look. She had hired yoga teacher Payal Gidwani and fitness instructor Satyajit Churasia for ensuring a new slim, trim look.

Satyajit Chaurasia incidentally is the celebrity trainer, the brain behind Aamir Khan’s starting six-pack figure in super hit flick Ghajini. He was quoted as saying, ” It was in April (2008) that Rani (Mukerji) decided to tone up and lose the flab though she has been working out for a long time (with me).”

The duo chalked out a meticulous combination of cardio plus weight training. According to a news report, Rani Mukerji does weight training for half an hour and walks on the treadmill for exact 45 minutes five days a week. She underwent rigorous workout sessions as well, doing 300-500 stomach crunches and stretching exercises daily.

Why not seek inspiration from her, and ‘present’ your special friend or office colleague a healthy way of life. You may join them in the endeavor of trimming that extra flab and getting fit.

What are those offbeat but highly useful gift options, you sure would like to know! Await our next blog post to know more about them…

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If your friend, relative or any other close family member had promised to present you a dazzling diamond studded wrist watch or a beautiful golden necklace worth Rs 3 lakh, it is going to cost you as well. Starting from today, the receipt of gifts in kind are going to be treated as part of your taxable income from now on.

The changes have been effected as per the revamped provisions of Section 56(2)( vii) that are introduced by the Finance Act, 2009. They are effective from today.  If you belong to the top tax-bracket of 30.9%, a gift of value mentioned above will draw straight income-tax of Rs 92,700.
Only gifts of any sum of money (and not those in kind) beyond the prescribed limit of Rs 50,000 currently are taxed in the hands of the HUF or recipient individual as income. This is subject to specified exceptions like receipts from relatives and also on the occasion of marriage or those given under a will.

Eight specified properties, comprising land and building, jewelry, shares and securities, archaeological collections, sculptures, drawings, paintings and any piece of art, that is received by an individual or HUF, either by way of gifting or for a purchase consideration treated by the assessing officer as not adequate enough, the market value of these gifts or the differential value worked out of such purchase (if it exceeds Rs 50,000) will be deemed as income from other sources.

A statement from CBDT stated: “The I-T Act 1961 has been amended to provide that any gift-in-kind will become taxable in the hands of the donor, being an individual or a Hindu undivided family (HUF), as income from other sources.” Receipt of any such gifts on or will mandatorily attract tax due on the value of the gift. The recipient will need to disclose their taxable value in the return of income from assessment year 2010-11 onwards. According to CBDT, certain categories are exempted from paying taxes.

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