International Day Of Yoga

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New Delhi, June 12To highlight agrarian distress, farmer unions plan to mark the International Day of Yoga on June 21 by performing shavasana, or the corpse pose, across the country. On the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to be in Lucknow and perform yoga with an estimated 50,000 people.Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangatathan chief Shiv Kumar 'Kakkaji' said 62 farmer unions will block national highways for three hours on June 16. In New Delhi, farmer union leaders and supporters plan to visit Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Rajghat on that day."Our non-violent movement will continue. But, yes we want to tell people across the length and breadth of this country the pitiable condition of farmers. To this end, we plan to perform shavasana on the International Day of Yoga," Shiv Kumar, who has emerged as the leader of the farmer agitation in Madhya Pradesh, told this paper from Bhopal.On June 21, the International Day of Yoga that United Nations ratified in 2014 upon the PM's ...

Participants from a record 135 nationalities had gathered in front of the UN Secretariat building to commemorate Yoga Day last month

Over one lakh people performed yoga together in Haryana's Faridabad to mark the International Day of Yoga

Modi, dressed in a white-coloured t-shirt and trouser along with a scarf, led over 30,000 participants at a mass yoga demonstration in Chandigarh

The PM further said that yoga is not a religious activity and should be embraced by all for better physical and mental health

Survey was conducted during the past two months in the wake of the International Day of Yoga celebrated globally on June 21

Events were held in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou

India and China jointly co-sponsored the resolution adopting the IDY in the United Nations in December 2014