21st June every year is celebrated as the International Day of Yoga (IDY) all over the world. More and more people are practising yoga as they see numerous benefits of yoga in their lives in terms of overall wellbeing. The World Health Organisation also recognises yoga as a valuable tool to increase physical activity and decrease non-communicable diseases.
In view of the current Covid restrictions, the High Commission celebrated IDY 2021 in a virtual mode, followed by a series of events in the coming week. Details of the programme being organised by the High Commission together with The Nehru Centre are given below which you would like to disseminate to your members:
On 21 June, the virtual celebration of the 7th International Day of Yoga by the High Commission included a film on yoga featuring messages from Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji, High Commissioner HE Gaitri I Kumar and a video message of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi.
An International Webinar on Yoga as part of the celebration included speakers like Prof. H.R. Nagendra, Chancellor, S-VYASA University, Dr Tanjuja Nesari, Director, AIIA, Delhi, Dr Raghu Ram, Eminent Yoga Expert from S-VYASA, Dr Antonietta Rozzi, President, Sarva Yoga International, Italy, Swami Nemiji from Shrimad Ramchanda Mission Dharampur (SRMD) Ms Allesendra - a Yoga Teacher from the UK and Ms Sarah Tomlinson-Yoga Teacher from the UK.
A lecture cum discussion by Swami Purnachaitanyaji from Art of Living was followed by a discussion with the Director, TNC (Shri Amish Tripathi).
On June 23rd and June 24th, two lecture cum demonstrations on Yoga by Mirabelle D’Cunha, a well-known yoga expert from the United Kingdom were live-streamed from TNC.
On June 26, a Yoga event in association with the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission in the UK will be live-streamed from TNC/HCI Platform at 1400 hours.
All the programmes are being/will be streamed live via High Commission’s social media platforms i.e. Facebook (www.facebook.com/IndiaInUK/), Twitter (https://twitter.com/hci_london?lang=en) and YouTube.
Besides, High Commission made arrangements to display Yoga promotion videos on a digital screen at iconic locations of London – High Street Kensington, Leicester Sq. Screen, Screen @ Meridian Steps & Digi-bridge Wandsworth in London; Birmingham Central & Edinburgh Southern Gateway to play on 21 June 2021.
