International day of Yoga
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA. It has been celebrated all over the world on 21st June every year. This year too, it is a very proud moment to all Indians because one thought or one practice of India become world famous and it has been accepted by most of UNO countries. Around 175 countries celebrated IDY last year excluding some radicle countries. On December 11 in 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 21st as the International Day of Yoga.
With the special efforts of honorable prime minister Shree Narendra Modi. During his address to UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014, wherein he stated:
“Yoga is an invaluable gift of India’s ancient tradition. It embodies the unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfillment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and nature”.
In Suggesting June 21, which is the Summer Solstice, as the International Day of Yoga, Mr. Narendra Modi had said that “the date is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has special significance in many parts of the world”.
Yoga is the 5000-year-old physical, mental and spiritual practice in India. Some of the countries were practicing yoga with the considerable number after the IDY they also got an opportunity to make this famous so that 175 countries participated and started doing yoga. It is the first ever most countries accepted such international day.
Objective of IDY
International Day of Yoga has been adopted to fulfill the following objectives:
- To let people know the amazing and natural benefits of yoga.
- To connect people to nature by practicing yoga.
- To make people get used of meditation through yoga.
- To draw the attention of people worldwide towards the holistic benefits of yoga.
- To reduce the rate of health challenging diseases all over the world.
- To bring communities much close together to spend a day for health from the busy schedule.
- To enhance growth, development and spread peace all through the world.
- To help people in their bad situations themselves by getting relief from stress through yoga.
- To strengthen the global coordination among people through yoga.
- To make people aware of physical and mental diseases and its solutions through practicing yoga.
- To protect unhealthy practices and promote and respect the good practices to make health better.
- To let people know their rights of good health and healthy lifestyle to completely enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health.
- To link between protection of health and sustainable health development.
- To get win over all the health challenges through regular yoga practice.
To promote better mental and physical health of people through yoga practice.
The common protocol which we can do on that day has given by Indian government only the file has given below
there are so many saints has been continued the practice of yoga from rushi Patanjali to nowadays Shri Ravi Shankar Guruji, Shri Sadguru, Shri Ramdev Baba and so many great personalities more about them is given in below link
http://idayofyoga.org/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=23
more about yoga day and pledging please log in to the below website of govt only
the statement of UN on IDY
UN statement on international day of yoga
