International Yoga Day
21st June 2020
Yoga is an invaluable ancient Indian practice with numerous benefits to both physical and mental health. In context of the current COVID-19 pandemic including restrictions on the movement of people and a slowdown in economic activity, the benefits offered by Yoga have become especially important for physical and mental wellbeing. Yoga is benefited for health and immunity enhancement and it is also globally accepted.
International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2020, scheduled to be held on 21 June, 2020, with the key goal of using digital media this year to promote raise Yoga awareness and its adoption due to the current pandemic situation globally.
In an effort to participate actively in the International Yoga Day, the NSS Wing of Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida organized a Yoga Session through online AKTU given link session on 21st June 2020 at 7:00 am for the students, teachers and staff members.
The main aim objective of observing the IDY is to remind the people across the globe about the benefits of Yoga and to build enduring public interest by highlighting its importance and contributions to public health. Therefore, it would be our privilege to associate with students, faculties and staff members in this endeavor in championing the cause of Yoga to serve as a tool in the betterment of health and wellbeing of the community, especially improving immunity and physical health in present situation.
As the mass performance of the Common Yoga Protocol (CYP)-one of the most popular Yoga programmers across the world-will remain at the heart of the International Day of Yoga (IDY) like always, this year IDY will be observed in a non-congregative manner. Therefore, more than two hundred students, all teaching, non-teaching staff members and their family members were performed yoga from their respective home.