5,000 yoga practitioners to take part in State-level Yoga Day event in Bengaluru

Around 5,000 yoga practitioners are expected to enactment successful a wide yoga objection successful beforehand of the Vidhana Soudha successful Bengaluru connected June 21 arsenic portion of the State-level celebrations for the 12th International Day of Yoga, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said connected Wednesday.

Addressing presspersons present aft releasing Yoga posters and postcards, Mr. Rao said the lawsuit would beryllium organised successful enactment with guidelines issued by the Ministry of AYUSH nether this year’s theme, “Yoga for Health, Knowledge and Global Peace.”

The State-level programme volition beryllium held from 6 americium to 8 americium with information from AYUSH colleges, yoga institutions and assorted organisations. The 45-minute Common Yoga Protocol league prescribed by the Union authorities volition beryllium observed simultaneously crossed Karnataka from 7 americium to 7.45 am, helium said.

Governor to inaugurate

Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot is expected to inaugurate the programme. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Ministers, legislators, elder officials and yoga gurus are besides expected to attend.

Mr. Rao added that efforts were besides being made to invitation sports personalities, celebrities and nationalist figures to summation consciousness astir yoga.

Awareness programmes

The authorities was organising consciousness programmes astatine district, taluk and colony levels to beforehand yoga and holistic wellbeing.

Several themed programmes are besides planned successful Bengaluru and Mysuru. Special events specified arsenic “Vijnana Yoga” astatine IISc Bengaluru, “Carcino Yoga” astatine Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology and “Cardio Yoga” astatine Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research successful Mysuru are planned successful the run-up to Yoga Day.

The Government Ayurveda Research Centre, Mysuru, volition organise national-level societal media competitions and yoga-related activities successful schools. More than 1 lakh radical and 25,000 students are expected to participate.

Nearly 25 lakh radical crossed Karnataka are expected to instrumentality portion successful Yoga Day events connected June 21.