International Day of Yoga Images: World Yoga Day Stock Photos: Yoga is a 5,000-year-old physical, mental and spiritual practice Having its origin in India, Which Aims to transform both body and mind. On December 11 in 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 21st as the International Day of Yoga.
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Students practice yoga ahead of International Yoga Day at a school in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on June 17, 2017. Yoga is being promoted by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN as a holistic means of promoting mental and physical wellbeing. The ancient practice which originated in India, has followers taking to their mats all over the world. As a nod to this global appeal of yoga, the UN observes June 21 as International Day of Yoga. Here’s how India’s been getting it’s asanas down pat.
Thousands of students rehearse to create the ‘Largest Yoga Chain’ for Guinness Book of World Records ahead of Yoga Day at Mysore Palace in Karnataka on June 19, 2017.
Visually challenged people perform yoga at a camp on the eve of International Yoga Day in Bengaluru, Karnataka on June 20, 2017.
Yoga enthusiasts take part in a Yoga training session at Nehru park, a day before the International Day of Yoga in New Delhi on June 20, 2017.
A sadhu or Hindu holy man performs Yoga to mark International Yoga Day at Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Assam.
Dimapur: Participants perform a Yoga session to mark International Yoga Day at Agri Expo in Dimapur, Nagaland on Wednesday. PTI Photo (PTI6_21_2017_000163B)
People from the Naval staff perform yoga during a yoga event to mark the 3rd International Yoga Day on the deck of INS Sunayana at Southern Naval Command (SNC) in Kochi
People perform yoga during the 3rd International Yoga Day at Lodhi garden in New Delhi
People take part in a mass yoga session during the 3rd International Yoga Day, June, 21 at the United Nations in New York City.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga during a mass yoga event on 3rd International Yoga Day in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Yoga enthusiasts perform as part of a flash mob at Times Square, New York, US.
Yoga enthusiasts take part in a mass yoga session on International Yoga Day at the Shree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on June 21.
Yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch, 98, takes part in a mass yoga session on International Yoga Day at the Shree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on June 21.
People from the Naval staff perform yoga during a mass yoga event to mark the 3rd International Yoga Day on the deck of former warship INS Viraat at the Naval dockyard in Mumbai on June 21.
A sadhu or a holy man participates along with others in a yoga workshop conducted by the yoga guru Ramdev in Ahmedabad on June 20, 2017 ahead of the International Yoga Day.
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