International Yoga Day:From Dehradun to Dublin, there’s only Yoga
The festival began in 2015 when India presented to the United Nations General Assembly a bill to create an official international holiday to celebrate yoga. It was voted in unanimously.
The event is designed to promote the physical, spiritual, and mental aspects of yoga. Yoga was initially used as a form of religious worship in India. It gained a wider audience at the beginning of the 19th century mainly due to Swami Vivekananda.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led over 50,000 volunteers in Dehradun today morning to mark the fourth International Yoga Day celebrations. In his address at Forest Research Institute, the Prime Minister said-
“The world has embraced yoga and glimpses of this can be seen in the manner in which International Day of Yoga has been marked every year. In fact, Yoga Dayhas become one of the biggest mass movements in the quest for good health and well-being.”
From Dehradun to Dublin, Shanghai to Chicago, Jakarta to Johannesburg yoga has become a positive influence in lives of millionss.
"#InternationalYogaDay2018 | Indian Air Force personnel perform yoga asanas at 15,000 feet" pic.twitter.com/P788kq7rrm
— bhaavna arora (@BhaavnaArora) June 21, 2018
You might not see a more visually stunning #InternationalYogaDay2018 celebration: in the picturesque village of Loutian in Daoxian county, Hunan province in south China pic.twitter.com/6bIZSUnOgf
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) June 21, 2018
