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Context: The Ministry of Civil Aviation is organizing “Yog Prabha”, a mega Yoga event on 25th April 2022 at Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi.

More details about news:

• The event will include Common Yoga Protocol, Lecture on Yoga by Expert and Yoga Demonstration.
• The United Nations General Assembly took a historic decision in 2014 to declare 21st June as the International Day of Yoga (IDY).
• This event will help create wider awareness among the participants about importance of Yoga in daily life.

About Yoga:

• Yoga is the symbol of India’s rich cultural heritage.
• Yoga is a practice that brings about harmony between the body and the mind.
• It gives physical power and provides mental balance and emotional stability to meet modern life challenges successfully.
• It is a group ofphysical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind and mundane suffering.
• There is a wide variety of schools of yoga, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and traditional and modern yoga is practiced worldwide.
• Yoga is first mentioned in the Rigveda, and is referred to in a number of the Upanishads

Common Yoga Protocol (CYP)

• It is designed inputs from experts as it comprises day-to-day Yoga practice to reap all the benefits of Yoga.
• The protocol is intended to popularise Yoga practiceslike Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, Dhyan etc.
• Each Yogic activity is a key to improving flexibility, strength, balance and attaining harmony.
• Yoga Portal by the Government of India is a platform to help people embrace, practice, and enjoy yoga every day.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1819058

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