International Yoga Day 2019 : Ministry of Ayush launches ‘Yogalocator’ app
Ahead of International Yoga Day on June 21, the AYUSH Ministry launched an app that can help locate yoga events around the city. The Yoga Locator app also provides a list of Yoga training centres and instructors near your location.
The location-based app is available for the Android OS and it can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. The app enables yoga instructors to register themselves and reach out to people who want to pursue a yoga course.
Global health is recognized by the United Nations as a long-term development objective which requires international cooperation. The best way to do this is through the exchange of best practices that can make the lives of citizens healthier and improve individual lifestyles devoid of excesses of all kinds.
Recognizing the universal appeal of yoga, the United Nations proclaimed 21st June to be celebrated as the International Day of Yoga in its resolution 69/131 on December 11, 2014.
The United Nations, in its aforementioned resolution on celebrating International Yoga Day on June 21, highlighted that yoga provides a holistic approach to health and well-being of individuals and that wider dissemination of information about the benefits of practising yoga would be beneficial for the health of the world population.
World over, yoga is acknowledged as a holistic approach to staying physically and mentally healthy. Given the numerous health benefits, people are keen to make yoga a part of their daily routine. From Saudi Arabia to China, Bahrain, Serbia, Denmark, Singapore, Bhutan, Bahrain and so many other countries across the world, Yoga Day preparations are moving in full throttle.
