International Yoga Day 2020 To Be Celebrated On Digital Media Platforms Due To COVID-19

New Delhi:

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, this 12 months’s Global Yoga Day can be celebrated on virtual media platforms and there can be no mass gatherings, the federal government has stated.

This 12 months’s theme can be ‘Yoga at House and Yoga with Circle of relatives’. Other folks can be in a position to sign up for Yoga Day celebrations just about at 7 am on June 21.

Indian Missions in another country try to succeed in out to the folks thru virtual media as smartly during the community of establishments which enhance yoga, officers stated.

The AYUSH ministry had previous deliberate to carry a grand tournament at Leh which, then again, needed to be cancelled on account of the pandemic.

But even so, during the ‘My Lifestyles – My Yoga’ video running a blog festival which used to be introduced through the Top Minister on Would possibly 31, the Ministry of AYUSH and ICCR seeks to boost consciousness about yoga and to encourage folks to organize for and develop into energetic members within the remark of Global Day of Yoga 2020.

The competition will run in two legs – the primary one consisting of a world video running a blog contest, by which the winners can be picked inside a rustic. This can be adopted through world prize winners who can be decided on from other international locations.

To go into into the competition members are required to add a three-minute video of three yogic practices (kriya, asana, pranayama, bandha or mudra), together with a brief video message/description on how the stated yogic practices influenced their existence.

They may be able to do it in any language, AYUSH Secretary, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, stated.
Entries may also be submitted through members below 3 classes – formative years (female and male elderly below 18), adults (female and male above 18 years) and yoga pros, Mr Kotecha stated.

This makes it a complete of six classes in all. For India contestants, prizes value Rs 1 lakh, 50Okay and 25Okay can be given for 1st, 2d and third positions inside every of the kinds.

Out of the country Indian Missions will give away prizes in every nation. On the world stage, money prizes value USD 2,500, USD 1,500  and USD 1,000 along side trophy and certificates can be given to these score first, 2nd and 3rd.

The video running a blog festival will supply us an enormous quantity of testimonial which is able to lend a hand us in spreading the phrase about yoga and its general advantages no longer simply health-wise but additionally against the option to human existence as smartly, Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddh, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Members of the family, stated.

“It is going to additionally convey to the fore the more than one sides of yoga. Yoga isn’t just a bodily job, it additionally has to do with bodily and emotional fitness and folks will percentage the advantages they’ve skilled,” he stated.

The movies could also be uploaded on Fb, Twitter or Instagram with the competition hashtag #MyLifeMyYogaINDIA and suitable class hashtag.

Mr Kotecha additional knowledgeable that over 2 Lakh folks thus far have downloaded the ‘Sanjivani’ cell utility which used to be introduced on Would possibly 7 to generate knowledge on acceptance and utilization of AYUSH advocacies and measures a number of the inhabitants and its have an effect on in prevention of COVID-19.
 

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