What is your chosen method to de-stress and relax? Would you binge-watch an entire season of the new show that just dropped? Are you a bibliophile who loves getting lost in a good book? Or are you someone who enjoys engaging in physical activities to beat the blues? People have different ways to unwind, but yoga is one of the best and oldest techniques to de-stress one’s body and mind.
Yoga is said to help relieve stress, better your mood, and increase your energy levels. Thank goodness, nowadays there’re a million resources available if one wishes to incorporate yoga into their daily life.
Yoga can help us to de-stress as improve our health, flexibility and strength. We learned that very well back in 2020, when the whole world was suffering due to the pandemic, both from a physical and mental point of view. The pandemic did see a lot of people taking up home workouts especially Yoga. This helped to improve respiratory and cardiac function along with calming down the mind and enhancing immunity and still does.
To quote the words of one of the most famous teachers, the late B. K. S. Iyengar, “Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.”
In 2014, the Honourable Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, proposed that the United Nations designate June 21 as the International Yoga Day. In his speech, he said that practising yoga can benefit people of all ages and cultures. The proposal was met with widespread support, and the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to make it official.
That's why, Yoga Day is a great way to honour and celebrate the gift of India to the world. Taking this opportunity to collectively practice on uniting our body, mind and spirit, remembering our connection with all sentient beings, moving towards a more harmonious world, one breath at a time.