On the event of the eleventh Worldwide Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that yoga is the “pause button” that humanity must breathe, discover stability, and be complete once more.

He was addressing the eleventh Worldwide Yoga Day Celebrations occasion in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This 12 months’s Worldwide Yoga Day theme is ‘Yoga for One Earth, One Well being’

“Sadly, in the present day the complete world goes by way of some pressure, unrest, and instability have been growing in lots of areas. In such occasions, Yoga provides us the course of peace. Yoga is the pause button that humanity must breathe, stability, and develop into complete once more,” ANI quoted PM Modi as saying. 

Prime Minister Modi mentioned that the theme of this 12 months’s Worldwide Yoga Day displays a deeper reality that the well being of each entity on Earth is interconnected.

“The theme of this 12 months’s Worldwide Day of Yoga is ‘Yoga For One Earth, For One Well being’. This theme displays a deep reality: the well being of each entity on Earth is interconnected. Human well-being will depend on the well being of the soil that grows our meals, the rivers that give us water, the well being of the animals that share our ecosystems, and the crops that nourish us. Yoga awakens us to this interconnectedness, leads us on a journey in the direction of oneness with the world, and teaches us that we’re not remoted people however a part of nature,” ANI quoted PM Modi as saying. 

Prime Minister Modi mentioned that India is selling yoga globally by way of analysis. He mentioned that analysis has proven that yoga performs an vital position within the therapy of coronary heart and neurological problems and within the bodily and psychological well being of ladies.

“For the growth of Yoga on the earth, India is empowering the science of Yoga by way of fashionable analysis… We’re additionally encouraging evidence-based remedy within the area of Yoga. Delhi AIIMS has finished an excellent job on this regard. Its analysis has proven that yoga has a important position within the therapy of cardiac and neurological problems, and it additionally performs an vital position in ladies’s well being and psychological well being,” ANI quoted PM Modi as saying. 

Prime Minister Modi additionally mentioned that Yoga is not simply an train. It’s a lifestyle. He additionally expressed pleasure at becoming a member of this 12 months’s Yoga Day celebrations in Visakhapatnam.

Notably, the United Nations declared June 21 because the Worldwide Day of Yoga in 2014, through the session of the Common Meeting.