On 11 December this year the Ansa from New York broke the news: Yoga Day was made official on 21 June . The UN has adopted a resolution that establishes the day of the summer solstice as International Yoga Day as established by the 193 members.
The UN and the International Yoga Day
Strongly wanted by the Indian government and its premier Narendra Modi who had proposed to establish a World Yoga Day in his first speech in September at the United Nations Assembly , after three months the request was accepted: " Yoga embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfillment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well being, "said Modi, that is, " Yoga means mind and body ; thought and action; self-control and self-realization ; harmony between man and nature, a holistic approach between health and well-being ".
This is not a sport but a discipline that also has a lot to do with the pleasure of giving peace to the mind and opening the heart, essential practices at this stage.
More than 170 countries including the US, Canada, and China have promoted the resolution, including 175 nations that have co-sponsored the initiative.
Yoga: devotion or fashion
What does it mean to practice yoga in the full sense, not as a fad, but as a practice with the highest spiritual ends? The answer lies in the breath .
Yoga is a practice that allows you to connect well with yourself through the act that keeps us alive, beyond the great distinctions of style made by us humans; on the Huffington Post the author and spiritual guide Sister Jenna announced the news of the day of yoga remembering that there are at least 155 yogic practices and amounts to about 60 million the number of practitioners around the world.
In fact the yoga that we know in the West is often limited to the practice of yoga of positions, when it is good to remember that yoga is also mantra, meditation, Vedic singing, hand mudras and much more. Yoga in an extended sense is also to prepare something with love, to act with devotion, to accomplish something in a full and complete sense.
Why does it take perseverance? Simple, because through constancy one learns to know the length of one's breaths and the reasons for which they shorten. The teachers who direct students towards this type of observation are good teachers.
There are so many styles and types of yoga; our advice is to understand how dynamic you are in life and if you think yoga could be a way to go beyond your supposed nature, without forcing. An example: there are many who consider themselves active and dynamic and for this reason they choose styles like power yoga or bikram yoga, convinced that they want to sweat at any cost.
Others feel slower - internally or not - and then choose to opt for styles in which positions ( asanas ) are held for a long time. Head to a practice that gives palpable results at the level of experience, something that the body itself will tell you if it serves or not. Yoga tones, serves to increase flexibility and also helps on a psychic level.
Explore, beware of those who want to put you in some situation of forced inclusion in a group or who tends to create a character instead of a humble teacher a figure that should just convey what you know. And get ready to celebrate every day like it's June 21, as the union between mind and heart is something to aspire to day by day. Something to build with care.
