Yoga Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the 10th Worldwide Day of Yoga (IYD) in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir in the present day. The Prime Minister led the celebrations of Worldwide Yoga Day and took half within the yoga session. Though because of heavy rains, the perform was held within the winter corridor of SKICC. It was initially deliberate to be held on the lawns of SKICC on the banks of the world-famous Dal Lake.
Addressing the event, the Prime Minister expressed gratitude for being current in Jammu & Kashmir, the land of Yog and Sadhna, on Worldwide Day of Yoga. “The environment, vitality, and expertise from yoga will be felt in Jammu & Kashmir in the present day. The variety of folks practising yoga is rising worldwide. At present the world is seeing a brand new yoga economic system rising. The world is taking a look at yoga as a strong agent of world good. Yoga helps us reside within the current second, with out the bags of the previous. Yoga is scripting new pathways of optimistic change in society. Yoga helps us understand that our welfare is expounded to the welfare of the world round us. Yoga just isn’t solely a self-discipline but additionally a science,” mentioned PM Modi.
The Prime Minister additionally recalled {that a} file 177 international locations endorsed India’s proposal within the UN. He additionally talked about subsequent information made within the context of IYD, corresponding to 35,000 folks doing yoga on Kartavya Path in 2015 and greater than 130 international locations taking part within the yoga occasion led by the Prime Minister on the UN Headquarters final yr. He additionally expressed happiness that greater than 100 institutes in India and 10 main overseas institutes have been acknowledged by the Yoga Certification Board fashioned by the Ministry of Ayush.
The Prime Minister underlined that the variety of folks practising yoga is rising worldwide whereas its attraction is continually on the rise. He highlighted that yoga’s utility can be being acknowledged by folks and acknowledged that there’s barely any world chief who has not mentioned yoga throughout their interactions.
Touching upon the altering notions about yoga because of its enlargement within the final 10 years, the Prime Minister talked a couple of new yoga economic system. He talked about the rising attraction for yoga tourism and folks’s need to go to India to study genuine yoga. He additionally talked about yoga retreats, resorts, devoted services for yoga at airports and inns, yoga attire and gear, private yoga trainers, and corporations finishing up yoga and mindfulness wellness initiatives. All these are creating new avenues of employment for the youth, he added.
Since 2015, the Prime Minister has led the Worldwide Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations at numerous iconic areas, together with Kartavya Path in Delhi, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Ranchi, Lucknow, Mysuru, and even the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
This yr’s theme, ‘Yoga for Self and Society,’ highlights the twin function of fostering particular person and societal well-being. The occasion will encourage grassroots participation and the unfold of yoga in rural areas.
