Know Why Yoga Is So Popular: International Yoga Day. Yoga is not for only millennials or the Gen Z. It’s for everyone. This popular modern-day practice goes back over 5000 years ago and continues to be practiced. Ever wondered why yoga is so popular? Well, it has a lot of health benefits for holistic well-being.
Yoga helps bring a healthier lifestyle. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes yoga as a transformative practice, harmony of the mind and body, balance between thought and action, and the unity of restraint and fulfillment. Yoga integrates the body, mind, spirit, and soul – offering a holistic approach to health and well-being.
Experts say yoga encourages being non-judgmental and compassionate to others and oneself. It’s about becoming attuned to the individual self and making room for where we are. Experts believe the more one does yoga, the more they can recognize that even their own states can change day to day, and moment to moment.
Yoga poses can be modified or customized as per the individual’s body, keeping in mind their degree of flexibility or how they are feeling that day or moment.
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Yoga Creates Body Image, Develops Breath and Strength
Yoga offers great many benefits. Besides building one’s physique, it develops inner awareness, breath and strength of mind and body. Yoga focuses attention on the body’s abilities at the present moment.
Moreover, study highlights that yoga increases mindfulness. Those that practice yoga are more aware about how their body feels and have heightened awareness over what they eat. They are more in tune with their bodies. Yoga eases tension and anxiety in body and mind, lowers blood pressure, empowers with greater muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, and cardio-respiratory fitness.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address during the 69th session of the General Assembly, said yoga is an invaluable gift from India’s ancient tradition. It embodies unity of mind and body, thought and action – a holistic approach that is valuable to one’s health and well-being. Yoga is more than just exercise, it’s a way to discover the sense of onness with oneself, the world and nature.
Yoga fosters social connections and mutual support, its inclusive and adaptable, as well as accessible to people of all ages, fitness levels, and walks of life.
International Yoga Day
PM Modi proposed International Yoga Day at the United Nations in 2014, supported by 177 countries. Since then every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been marking and making International Yoga Day bigger and better. Modi highlighted that the number of people practicing yoga around the world is steadily increasing.
“The trend of yoga is increasing rapidly in European countries. Today about 1.5 cr people in Germany have become yoga practitioners. The expansion of yoga over the past 10 years has changed perceptions associated with yoga,” PM Modi said. Yoga is beyond boundaries or borders. It is a powerful agent of global good.
