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Across the Borders
Yoga for a Healthy and United World
You all must be full of On June 21, 2025, when the
the energy of yoga and first rays of the sun fell on the
memories of ‘International
Yoga Day’. This time as well, earth, a wonderful wave of Yoga
st
on the 21 of June, crores of ran across the world. Like every
people across the country and
the world participated in the year, this time too International
‘International Yoga Day’. Do you Yoga Day worked to connect
remember, it began 10 years
ago. Now, over these 10 years, people at the level of body, mind
this event is turning grand with and soul. But this time there
every passing year. This is also
an indication that more and was something special. This
more people are adopting yoga time Yoga crossed borders, not
in their daily lives.
geographical, but ideological
-Prime Minister Narendra Modi
(in 'Mann ki Baat' address) and cultural borders. This year's
theme was dedicated to this
feeling: Yoga for One Earth, One
Health.
When people from all
corners of the world sat together
on Yoga mats, it was not just an
exercise but a shared message,
a message of peace, health and
harmony. On this day, Yoga tried
to make the body as well as
the thoughts flexible and made
people realise that even though
we are bound by different
languages, colours and borders,
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