Monday 15 June 2015

Yoga Day Holds In Nigeria



The celebrations commemorating the first International Day of Yoga in New York, to be presided over by Sushma Swaraj, broadcasting at Times Square will be shown live to a global audience. The UN will commemorate the inaugural International Yoga Day on June 21 with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Sam Kutesa gracing the occasion.
The India-led celebrations will also feature a special lecture and demonstration by Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
In Nigeria, a group of Non-Governmental Ogranisation  NGO’s - Nigeria Olympic Committee; The International Art of Living Foundation; Sewa International Nigeria, HSS Nigeria and Center for Values in Leadership and OFBJP Nigeria, have joined hands to become part of this inaugural event.  
The event according to Sanjay K. Srivastava in  a statement said that the groups will be hosting a two-hour event tagged “Yoga for Happiness” at the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria on the 21st of June. The event is aimed at creating awareness for a healthy and happy way of living and will bring together about 2,000 youths across the country.
The UN General Assembly had last year overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution, declaring June 21 as International Yoga Day. A record 177 countries had co-sponsored the resolution.
The idea for declaring an International Day of Yoga at the United Nations was formally proposed by Prime Minister Modi in his maiden address to the 69th General Assembly session in September last year. He had indicated that June 21, one of the two solstices, which is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere, has special significance in many parts of the world, and could be considered, for adoption, as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations each year

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