Yoga In Times Square

A yoga Festival was celebrated in Times Square in New York on Sunday June 21. I came across this news in the news paper in India and searched the net for this. It appears around 200 yoga enthusiasts turned up for the event. This is a yearly event being celebrated for last seven years. The purpose is to promote peace and health. I feel it is a wonderful way to celebrate and spread yoga.

For the participants also this must have been a wonderful experience. Usually we practice indoors, but practicing amongst the worlds tallest buildings, where there thousands of vehicles everyday must have been real awe inspiring experience.

Swami Ramdev holds camps regularly which is attended by thousands of people at a time. Most of the times more than 10,000 people attend these camps. Practicing at a camp has its own benefits and people get inspired by others and it motivates them to practice regularly. But having the yoga festival has a different meaning and purpose.

Just like we have marathons in different cities, similarly yoga festivals should be celebrated in different cities of India and other countries. If the mood is festive, people will also bring their kids to these events and they will develop interest in yoga. Too many times we present yoga as something serious and scare away lot of people. I hope such events become part of festival calendars for all the metros in the beginning and then it will gradually spread to the smaller cities. Spread of yoga will create a stronger nation. It will create strong ethical and moral values in the people and solve many problems in the society.

More more information please visit:

http://www.timessquarenyc.org/about_us/events_solstice.html

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