The International Yoga Day celebrations in Delhi will be observed at Red Fort, CP Central Park, Lodhi Garden and Coronation Park, among other places.
PM Modi will lead a yoga session at the UN headquarters in New York on the occasion of Internation Day of Yoga.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath appealed to the people of the state to adopt yoga on the eve of International Yoga Day on Tuesday. The CM made the appeal in a video message on his official Twitter handle.
As an ancient practice with benefits in promoting mental and physical well-being, yoga has gained widespread recognition.
International Yoga Day celebrations from the United Nations Headquarters, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
‘It is a great honour for me to be leading the Yoga session for PM Modi,’ says Richmond, who now teaches yoga at more than 108 universities across America, including Harvard, Stanford and Columbia. ‘Stress and mental-health issues are the same for students in any part of the world,’ she says, adding, ‘It’s natural because there is a lot of pressure on them to excel and a lot is at stake. But we have seen that yoga and meditation help them.’