Eminent Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty set the environment charged at Parmarth Niketan on Tuesday with her opening address ‘Atma Namastey’ to the yoga participants at her Yoga session during the ongoing International Yoga festival. She said that she felt like home coming at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh with peace and solace filling her soul.
Shilpa said that the sacred Ganga, purity in the surroundings in the holy city and positive energy generated by hundreds of yoga enthusiasts at one place were enough to send her into spiritual ecstasy. “This journey of Yoga will continue further and next year too I will be part of this festival for a longer time,” she said. Addressing the yoga session held in the morning on the day, Shilpa Shetty said, “You all are in the place where yoga was born. Every speck of this place makes one to feel energetic. Yoga is my life. Yoga is not just needed for the physical body but for mental peace as well.”
Exhorting the Indian women participants in the Yoga festival, Shilpa said, “Take out 20 to 25 minutes from your busy schedule and do pranayama and meditation. You will come to learn about your real identity. Yoga makes us to realise our own real nature. I am a karma yogi and along with health, yoga has also bestowed on me directions to stay happy.”