BELAGAVI CELEBRATES A VIBRANT, ENTHUSIASTIC YOGA DAY

Belagavi: The 12th International Yoga Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm across Belagavi district on Sunday. The main event was organised at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in collaboration with the district administration, ZP, Belagavi City Corporation and District Ayush department.

Prominent dignitaries, including Union minister Pralhad Joshi, MP Jagadish Shettar, MLAs and officials, including DC Mohammed Roshan, district SP Ramarajan, city police commissioner Bhushan G Borase, ZP CEO Rahul Shindhe, participated.Major sessions were organised at Naganur Rudrakshi Mutt, Gandhi Bhavan and widespread local celebrations across various taluk centres. Various organisations and institutions, including educational institutions, celebrated Yoga Day with enthusiasm.Pralhad Joshi, Union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution and renewable energy, who participated in the yoga session held at SVS, said, according to the vedic upanishads, June 21 has acquired importance and the same day is celebrated as International Yoga Day. Yoga, which has a history of five thousand years, has been accepted by more than 140 countries. Yoga is practised in some parts of the world 24 hours a day, so yoga is called the Golden Ring.

Yoga is an excellent tool for physical and mental health. Doing yoga daily has many physical benefits as well. Yoga helps stay balanced. In the competitive era, maintaining health along with modern lifestyle is a challenging task. Yoga is a tool to achieve efficiency, concentration and integrity at work. Yoga can control body and mind. Everyone must incorporate yoga in their daily routine to build good health, added Joshi.MLA Abhay Patil, BCC mayor Preeti Kamkar, deputy mayor Hanumant Kongali, BCC commissioner Kartik M, trainee IAS officer Rohit Singh, district AYUSH officer Srikanth Sunadholi, students from various schools and colleges, yoga enthusiasts and thousands others participated.Under the guidance of international yoga trainer Aarti Sankeshwari, international yoga masters Satyam and Gayatri demonstrated various yoga postures and explained their importance.Yoga day at Naganur Rudrakshi Mutt:In a social solidarity and spiritual discourse programme organised at Shivabasava Nagar in Belagavi, Himalayan yoga practitioner Niranjan Swami conducted a yoga demonstration and an introduction to Himalayan meditation yoga. The event was led by Allamaprabhu Swami of Naganur Rudrskhimutt.Yoga Day was celebrated by Ravi Shankar Guruj’s Art of Living group at Gandhi Bhavan in Belagavi.

Hundreds participated in the yoga demonstration.Yoga day was celebrated by several organisations, including the prestigious KLE Institute, Jolle Udyog Group of Institutions, Gogte Educational Institutions, Bharatesh Educational Institutions, Suresh Angadi Educational Institutions.