International Yoga Day 2020 and it's Theme.

International Yoga Day  2020: Theme of the Yoga this year's International Yoga Day is "Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family". 

The Journey of Yoga explains World Yoga Day 2020 and it's Theme.




World Yoga Day has been celebrated annually on 21 June of every year. The proposal to start Yoga Day was introduced by Honorable Prime  Minister Narendra Modi and United Nation for bringing International Yoga Day into an existence during the session of the General Assembly in September 27,2014. The World Health Organisation(WHO) mentions Yoga has become one of the tremendous means to improve health in its Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018 to 2030: More active people for a healthier world.


Yoga is not just a exercise or a work-out, it is the view of oneness with yourself,nature and the world.
The first Yoga Day celebration was held at Rajpath in new Delhi, where PM Modi and many other dignitaries performed around 21 Yoga Asana and created two guinness World Records.The first record was for the world's largest Yoga Class with 35,985 people and second was for gathering the maximum number of participating nationalities, which was 84.

Importance of Yoga during covid-19

Yoga has played a significant role during the lockdown of world crisis of Covid-19 as Yoga boosts our immunity and is known to cure various disease and disorder. By the modern era more than 200 Yoga Poses were outlined by the guru BKS Iyengar. The traditional number of asana are there but mainly 84 asanas exist with different posture and name related to the poses. 
Each of the Yoga poses has its own impact on the Physical and Mental health. Asanas shaped our body in a certain way which creates variou impact on us like asanas makes the body flexible, reduce anxiety and pressure, improves blood circulation,heart beat.

There are lots of benefit of doing Yoga. The energy generated in the body through the Yoga like Siddhasana, High Lunge, Baddhakon asana,Tadasana in the body through these physical practice is then channeled into meditation which keeps our mind calm,peace and stability.   

You can see how the people's attention is dragged or attracted towards yoga each and every day. It has been seen that during the pandemic of COVID-19,Yoga are gaining serious attention from the people globally as a valuable to gain peace, calm, stability and good health.

International Yoga Day(IYD) Theme 2020: " Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family"

Every year International Yoga Day is celebrated with different or unique Theme.The Theme of this year 2020 is "Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family". Due to Covid-19,Narendra Modi has introduced virtual Yoga to celebrate on digital media platforms owing to the pandemic Covid-19. 
As per the current situation the Government has restricted any mass gathering and it's celebration publicly.This is perfect opportunity for the housewives or home makers to join and contribute their part of the healthy Journey of Yoga.



Previous Year International Yoga  Day and it's unique Theme:




IYD year 2019-Yoga for Heart

The Yoga Theme of the year 2019 was "Yoga for Heart". This event was conducted at Ranchi. More than 50,000 people worldwide who have marked this Day in Unique way.


IYD year 2018-Yoga for Peace



The Theme of the Yoga for Year 2018 was "Yoga for Peace". This year the participation in Yoga was more than Lakh of people. The concept was for the world peace, unity in diversity and cultural acceptance. Guinness world record was created in Rajasthan.

IYD year 2017- Yoga for Health




The Ministry of AYUSH organised the event of International Yoga Day 2017 was held at Lucknow which witnessed a participation of over 50,000 people including 80 foreign delegates. The Theme of the year 2017 was "Yoga for Health". China Dublin and Athens were among some of the many other who celebrated this event.

IYD year 2016- Connect the Youth

In year 2016, Across the India around 30,000 people participated and celebrated the Yoga Day. The theme of the year 2016 was"Connect the Youth".The Ministry of AYUSH organised this event at Chandigarh for the second time in row.around 160 differently-abled people were also a part of the session. 

IYD year 2015- Yoga for Harmony and Peace

The Theme for first edition of  International Yoga Day was for "Harmony and Peace". The first ever International Yoga Day  was held at 21  june,2015, nearly 36,000 people including Prime Minister Modi and dignitaries from 84 nations, who performed 21 asana for 35 minutes. This year event was organised in New Delhi and around the world more than 190 countries celebrated this occasion.

Yoga takes you to live in Present movement,The only place where life exist.


Live Session of IYD 2020-



IYD year 2020 in Live  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that The world is feeling need of Yoga more than ever due to the coronavirus pandemic and also the ancient Indian   practice is helping a large number of Covid-19 patients across the globe in defeating Disease.

As Ramdev Baba is oftenly seen in doing Yoga,who is expertise in the different asana and has taught and dragged the youth and abiug all the several age of people in the field of Yoga with his easy to vast level of posture.

On his continuously participation till sixth International Yoga Day Modi said "Yoga is enhancing our,quest for happy,healthy and peace for healthier planet. It has forwarded people to the force for unity depends on the bonds of humanity. It doesn't discriminate. It goes beyond race,gender,colour,faith,trust and believe to the Nation. Anybody can emerge Yoga,"

If our immunity is strong, It is of great help in defeating this disease. For boosting immunity, there are numerous number of Yoga and Asanas are there.

He talks about the benefits of 'Pranayama' asana which is a form of breathing exercise.It is very effective and countless variations like Kapalbhati and Bhastrika. All of the form of Yoga  help a lot in strengthening both our respiratory system and immune system," He urge people to do include 'Pranayam' in their daily routine.

Celebrity who is addicted to Yoga has left us tremendous with their yog talent some are here:




Post a Comment

0 Comments