International Day Of Yoga celebrations began across the nation on Tuesday, as various states were seen holding yoga sessions, where people turned out in large numbers to practice the ancient Indian discipline.
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Over 30,000 people – 10,000 each from the Union Territory Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana – will take part in the event at Capitol Complex and 10,000 at over 100 other locations across the city.
Speaking at a programme organised by the IYD Main Organising Committee in the Capital to mark the IYD, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today said that yoga is an integral part of people daily activities for healthy body and sound thoughts.
Personnel on Indian ships out in the Pacific Ocean also celebrated the day by performing different aasanas.
People from various age group be it, adults, youths and children throng into the venue to mark the day especially to participate the yoga exercises along with the PM Narendra Modi, said the sources.
Indian schoolchildren participate in a yoga session at a school in Chennai on June 20, 2016, on the eve of International Yoga Day.
Richard Rahul Verma performing yoga.
“Make yoga a part of your life”, he said.
More than 2000 participated in the International Day of Yoga celebrated in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 18. Both the awards will be given on the International Yoga day from next year.
Inaugurating the International Yoga Day Dr. Samanta said, yoga is the only way to free our body and mind from various illnesses.
The Indian Embassy in Guatemala City in association with the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism (INGUAT), the Municipality of Guatemala CIty and several Yoga Centres of Guatemala organized the celebration of the Second International Day of Yoga on 19 June, 2016 at Plaza Obelisco.
“Yoga is not about the other life”.
Indian Consulates in Shanghai and Chengdu have been arranging a series of yoga events in a number of events culminating with similar events today. Moreover, yoga was becoming trade and profession across the world, he added. People search on many website for good yoga postures which help them in curing there disease or problem and after searching for so long they didn’t find them but not to worry anymore as we are going to teach you about the so many yoga postures which you can try.
Soldiers also performed Yoga at Pangong Tso, a saline water lake in Ladakh that extends from India to China, and in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh and other forward areas.
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PM Modi advocated for the popularisation of the practice across the world and desired for more Yoga teachers to be produced from India.
