International Yoga Day will be celebrated on June 21 in Madhya Pradesh. Mass Yoga programme will be organized in the whole state on Yoga Day. State-level Mass Yoga programme will begin from 6.30 am at lal Parade Ground, Bhopal in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Participants will be present at lal Parade Ground till 6.30 am in the state-level programme. The Madhya Pradesh song will be sung in the presence of guests at 6.40 am. At 6.45 am, Chief Minister Chouhan’s message to the people of the state will be read out followed by general Yoga exercises from 7 am. The programme will conclude at 8 am.
The district-level Yoga programme will be held in the presence of the Council of ministers at the district headquarters.
For this ministers have been allotted districts. The purpose behind this is that they concentrate on their allotted assignment with hundred percent focus. The mass yoga programme is being organized by the School Education Department.
A rehearsal of the main programme was held here on Tuesday at the lal Parade Ground. Government, non-government, students, Central Reserve Police Force, NCC cadets, Patanjali Yoga Sanstha and other Yoga Sanstha members took part in the rehearsal. The rehearsal was inspected by Commissioner Public Instructions, Neeraj Dubey and Bhopal District Collector Nishant Warwade.
The rehearsal programme at the lal Parade Ground included neck movements, shoulder movements, kati chalan, knee movements etc. Other asanas practiced were Tadasana, Vrikshasana, Padahastasana,Trikonasana, Bhadrasana, Vajrasana, Shashankasana, Vakrasana, Makarasana, Bhujangasana and other asanas. Pranayam was also practiced.