Over 1,200 people join yoga performance in Da Nang city

The performance aims to courage people to embrace a positive and healthy lifestyle by pursuing regular exercises to equilibrate mind and reduce stress. (Photo: VNA)

Da Nang (VNA) – More than 1,200 people
in the central coastal city of Da Nang and neigbouring localities joined a yoga
performance on June 30 in celebration of the 5th International Yoda Day (June
21).

Themed “Yoga for green life”, the performance
was jointly held by the , the
Embassy of India in Vietnam, and the Baoviet Life Corporation.

It aims to encourage people to embrace a
positive and healthy lifestyle by pursuing regular exercises to equilibrate
mind and reduce stress.

Vo Van Thang, Chairman of the Vietnam-India
Friendship Association in Da Nang, said the performance is an annual activity
to promote yoga and its values to the community life. 

It also helped strengthen solidarity, friendship
and mutual understanding between Vietnamese and Indian people, he added.

In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly
declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day.

Yoga is an ancient practice which brings
together physical, mental disciplines to achieve a peaceful body and mind. Yoga
is a form of exercise that is performed through diet, breathing and physical
posture.

The theme of 2019
is “Climate Action” – which focuses on the way how yoga can
help people to survive in the changing environment.-VNA