International Yoga Day

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International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Modi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Art of Living Foundation, Yoga

For the uninitiated, yoga looks so complex. I can imagine my favorite author P G Wodehouse describing it as people tying themselves in knots. Yet kids are taking to it just as their elders. Black, white, brown or any color in between, in nearly 200 countries, big and small, people are taking to what might be, at least in India for sure, the most inexpensive way to managing good health. They are practicing it with vigor and unprecedented enthusiasm from San Francisco, Ca touching the Pacific Ocean,  across the US mainland, Europe, Africa, and Asia to Yokohama in Japan on the other side of the Pacific.  From the capitalist United States to communist China, yoga is taking the world by storm. 

International Yoga Day

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Art of Living, Indian Army, International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, United Nations, Yoga

In December 2014, addressing the United Nations for the first time, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi made a plea that the ancient form of meditation and exercise called yoga known to India for over 5000 years be celebrated by having an International Yoga Day. He was right in asking for this as yoga is increasingly becoming popular all over the world  with people embracing it irrespective of their age, gender or political affinity. Over time, his request was supported by over 175 member nations of the UN.