NewzVille Desk
The President of India, Droupadi Murmu participated in a mass yoga demonstration at the Uttarakhand State Police Line Maidan, Dehradun, on the International Yoga Day today.
The President greeted all the participants practicing yoga on the occasion of ‘International Yoga Day’ around the world. She said that since 2015, Yoga has become a common heritage of the entire humanity. It is an important example of India’s ‘soft power’.
President Murmu said that Yoga is the art of living a healthy life, adopting which benefits the body, mind and overall personality of a human being. When a person is healthy, the family tends to remain healthy. When the family and society remain healthy, the country remains healthy.
The President said that ‘Yoga’ means ‘to connect’. The practice of yoga connects the body, mind and soul of a person and makes the person healthy. Yoga can also connect one person to another person, one community to another community and one country to another country.
She urged everyone to make yoga an integral part of life and to inspire others to practice yoga.
