History
International yoga is also called as the world yoga day. 21st of June was declared as the International Yoga Day by the United Nations General Assembly on 11th of December 2014. In India, yoga is considered to nearly 5000-year-old physical, mental and spiritual practice. Yoga was originated from India back in the Ancient Indian times when people used to meditate in order to transform their mind and body.
Initiating a specific date for practicing and spreading awareness about yoga all across the world and celebrating the day of yoga once a year was initiated by the Indian Prime Minister to the United Nations General Assembly. The declaration of the International Yoga Day is a prodigious moment for India in the history.
It didn’t take more than three months to get World Yoga Day declared by the United Nations General Assembly. First time ever in the history that any initiative provided by any country has been proposed and implemented within 90 days in the UN body.
Objective
The following are the objectives of observing International Yoga Day:
- To make people aware about the natural and amazing benefits of yoga.
- To connect people to nature by practicing yoga.
- To promote meditation among people through yoga.
- To get the attention of people worldwide towards the holistic advantages of yoga.
- To reduce the rate of health challenging diseases throughout the world.
- To bring communities closer together to spend a day which is dedicated towards health from a busy schedule.
New Trends of yoga
Yoga Nidra
The people who enjoy mental health benefits of yoga and not just the physical advantages, then Yoga Nidra could be best for you.
It is sometimes also referred to as yogic sleep, Yoga Nidra is defined by the yoga master Anandmurti Gurumaa as “a type of intense sleep in which you will not lose consciousness”.
The best practice is done in savasana, which is also known as corpse pose that helps in aiding relaxation, which will be including some classes of pranayama (breathing), asanas (poses), meditation and chanting.
It is believed that yoga Nidra will allow the body to enter into a more restorative and healing state and it will also help the mind in entering the state of tranquility as it will change the activities into meditation. Practicing it would help you in relieving frustration, stress, insomnia, and even emotional, muscular and mental tensions.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a slower and gentler type of yoga which is designed to help in reducing the stress and counterbalance our fast-paced lifestyles.
It is invented only 20 years ago, Yin yoga is a meditative practice which has the focus on deep breathing, rather than the aesthetics of a pose, perfect alignment, or muscular strength.
Different from other energetic forms like ashtanga or vinyasa, yin yoga poses should be performed on the floor between an average of 3 to 5 minutes, that will require concentration but also it will aid relaxation.
Alien Yoga
Dubbed “alien yoga” on Instagram because of the stomach’s strange constrictions during the movement, this most recent yoga furor may look and sound threatening, but if aced serves to both scrub internal organs and reinforce the abdominal area.
Traditionally known as “nauli,” the movement is a yogic purifying exercise, or “kriya”, which includes rolling the abdominal muscles from side to side in a wave-like movement. In fact it appears to be troublesome, it can be honed by most yogis and by any age group, however, as a propelled movement the site nauli.org prescribes taking in the procedure from an accomplished educator.
Goat Yoga
“Goat Yoga” is maybe one of most irregular however possibly fun types of yoga, as you rehearse your asanas surrounded by adorable and tiny Nigerian Dwarf goats.
Yogis are currently lining up across the US to join the classes, which occur not in a studio but rather in the more rural of a countryside farm.
Fans of the latest fitness fever report that being outside in nature make the yoga class much additionally relaxing, with the goats themselves also calming tension on account of their giggle-inducing antics and hairy neighborliness, which gives a comparable experience to nestling a pet, it is already clinically demonstrated to help relieve stress and enhance prosperity.
It is estimated that close to many of the people around world practice yoga, a majority of them in India, and over 20 million of them in the United States alone. Make a resolution this International Yoga Day, and make other people aware of the benefits of yoga to live a healthy, humble and a yogic lifestyle.
