India is a land with an ancient soul
but a modern heartbeat from ancient times
india has made extraordinary contributions in the field of
architecture
astronomy
photography
metallurgy logic mathematics
medicine and many other disciplines
however there is another discipline that originated in India and is
well known to
the modern world that is yoga yoga acquired a new dimension when in
december two thousand fourteen the United Nations declared jun 21st
to be
celebrated every year
as the international day of yoga
but yoga did not begin on jun 21st
it began centuries ago
Yoga has transcended time and boundaries
this five-thousand-year-old discipline was brought to the shores of
the Western
world in the late 19th century in its dissemination across the
world over the
last 150 years and thanks to the contributions of yoga pioneers and
contemporary yoga gurus like Durrani Anjali yogi Sunita
Krishnamacharya Joyce
find our Jaggi Vasudev 33 ravi shanker and baba ramdev to name a
few
Yoda as we know today has undergone significant transformation from
the 5000
year old ancient discipline of the sagers
Yoga is practice today by millions of people around the world
realizing the virtues and holistic benefits of yoga for all mankind
the honorable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in his address
to the 69
session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in
September 2014
proposed that the world should start celebrating an international
day of yoga
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to Simon idea connect member countries of the United Nations
supported the
score and the UN proclaimed June twenty-first as the international
day of
yoga
there were special significance in choosing June twenty-first as
the
international day of yoga the somersaults dice falls and twenty to
twenty first june when the Rays of the Sun directly strike one of
the two
tropical latitude lines
jun 21st being the longest day of the year marks the beginning of
summer in
the Northern Hemisphere and heralds the beginning of winter in the
southern
hemisphere as the longest day of the year begins and as people wake
up to a
new dawn in their time zones
thousands of them get ready to reach for their yoga mats and a dose
of health
well-being peace and harmony
the stage was set on the iconic boulevard Raj birth in New Delhi to
bring people of diverse beliefs nationalities and age groups to
come
together not only to do yoga but create a new awareness of peace
and harmony
the yoga day celebration on garage but set a guinness world record
for the
largest yoga lesson at a single venue with 30 5985 people
performing yoga at
once
it broke a previous 10-year old record set in india in the city of
qualia in
november two thousand five with people of eighty four different and
unique
nationalities taking part in this event a second guinness world
record was also
set for the most nationalities in a yoga lesson
jun 21st is no longer just the longest day in the year it is now
the
international day of yoga a day when people across the world come
together to
practice this age-old discipline to take care of their health and
well-being
seek mental peace and happiness and maintain synergy between body
mind and
spirit
the word yoga is derived from the Sun Squidward you meaning to
unite
fittingly yoga has United the modern world
on this day and forever
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