Photos: How Navy officers celebrated International Yoga Day in the middle of Bay of Bengal

People including the naval officers celebrated International Yoga day across the country with great gusto and enthusiasm. Check photos here

By: News Desk |
June 21, 2017 10:13 am

All the Yoga enthusiasts across the globe are celebrating International Yoga Day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with 55,000 including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed several asanas in Lucknow. A number of people in Delhi are put stretching an extra muscle in various parks and public places to mark the International Yoga Day despite rain playing the spoilsport.

Apart from thousand others, naval officers or the guardians of the sea as the fondly called also performed asanas on Navy ships. Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu, Vijay Goel, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were also seen performing various yogic postures. NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind also took part in the celebrations.

Our Prime Minister who has always spoken about the benefits of yoga on several occasions took the opportunity to assert that Yoga had the power to unite the body, mind, and soul. Talking about how Yoga could be extremely beneficial in a person overall development, PM Narendra Modi said, ” “Many countries which do not know our language, tradition, or culture, are now connecting to India through Yoga. The practice, which connects body, mind, and soul, has played a big role in binding the world too.”

Here’s a look at some of the most incredible pictures of the naval officers performing yoga on warships:

Photo: PIB India

“It is not important to perform yoga for 24 hours. 50 or 60 minutes (is fine) because it lends harmony to the body,
mind and intellect. If 1.25 billion Indians and people around the world can attain this state of well-being, then humankind can also tide over problems born out of human thoughts,” PM Modi said while addressing a huge crowd gathered to perform Yoga.

#InternationalYogaDay2017 Onboard INS Shivalik,Kamorta&Jyoti Indian Ocean @SpokespersonMoD @moayush @arunjaitley @PMOIndia @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/fe02C46CcD

— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) June 21, 2017

Here’s Indian Navy personnel performing yoga at INS Netaji Subhash in Kolkata.

Photo: DPR | Twitter

#InternationalYogaDay2017 @moayush Yoga onboard INS Jalashwa & INS Kirch in Bay of Bengal pic.twitter.com/wDfgO94a21

— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) June 21, 2017

Navy officers performing Yoga onboard INS Jalashwa and INS Kirch the Bay of Bengal.

Photo: Spokesperson Navy

It was three years ago when PM Narendra Modi had urged the United Nations to declare June 21 as the International Yoga Day.