Overview

• International Yoga Day will be observed on June 21 with the theme “Yoga for One Earth, One Health” to emphasize the bond between individual well-being and planetary health.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the Common Yoga Protocol session in Visakhapatnam, where organizers expect more than half a million participants.
• Yoga Sangam events are set to unfold simultaneously at over 100,000 sites across India in one of the largest coordinated yoga demonstrations to date.
• The United Nations adopted June 21 as International Day of Yoga in December 2014 following a proposal by Modi at the UN General Assembly, with the first global observance held in 2015.
• Previous celebrations have achieved Guinness World Records for the largest yoga session and the most nationalities in a single event, reflecting yoga’s ancient Indian origins and worldwide appeal.