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As portion of the Andhra Pradesh government’s Yogandhra programme, a tourism-based yoga lawsuit was held astatine the Rock Garden successful Orvakal mandal connected Monday (June 8, 2026).
District Collector A. Siri, who took portion successful the yoga session, said yoga brings intelligence bid and carnal strength, and urged everyone to instrumentality up yoga to amended their carnal and intelligence health. She said 200 maestro trainers had been trained to grow the Yogandhra programme crossed the district, down to the colony level.
These maestro trainers volition hole trainers astatine the mandal and colony levels, who successful crook volition make consciousness astir yoga among the public. The Collector said peculiar steps were being taken to summation nationalist information successful the Yogandhra programme successful each village.
She appealed to the nationalist to registry for Yogandhra, instrumentality portion successful the mega yoga lawsuit connected Sunday (June 21, 2026), and get certificates.
Ms. Siri said that, nether authorities guidelines, yoga events were being organised astatine tourer places crossed the district. About 500 radical took portion astatine the Rock Garden, and she said yoga demonstrations and wide yoga events would besides beryllium held astatine six large temples successful the district.
Yoga competitions are being organised astatine the village, mandal, territory and State levels arsenic portion of the “Yogandhra” initiative. The Collector said those selected astatine the territory level would instrumentality portion successful State-level competitions and bring designation to the district. Winners were encouraged to marque the astir of the accidental to person certificates and prizes.
Maintaining that intelligence spot is arsenic important arsenic carnal fitness, the Collector advised everyone to bring yoga, meditation and pranayama into their regular lives. Practising pranayama for astatine slightest 10 minutes a time could payment one’s health, she said, and noted the worth of “smart work” alongside hard work.
Earlier, students from Dr. Abdul Kalam Municipal High School gave precocious yoga demonstrations. The lawsuit was attended by Joint Collector Nurul Qamar, District Revenue Officer C. Venkata Narayanamma and respective authorities officials.
