Overview

• The Ministry of Ayush’s day-long Yoga Connect summit kicked off on June 14 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, as a lead-up to the 11th International Day of Yoga.
• Organized by the Ayush Ministry and coordinated by the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN), the hybrid event hosts over 1,000 in-person participants alongside global virtual delegates.
• Yoga luminaries Baba Ramdev, Acharya Balakrishna, H R Nagendra, Bikkhu Sanghasena and Bharath Bhushan are joined by health experts and wellness advocates from Bahrain, the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
• A key highlight is the release of Yoga Prabhava, a nationwide CCRYN study assessing the impact of IDY over the past decade, supported by a scientometric analysis of yoga research and an illustrative booklet on native Indian trees.
• The summit’s thematic sessions cover yoga for non-communicable disease prevention, Yoga-Tech innovations, women’s health and the Common Yoga Protocol ahead of June 21 celebrations in Visakhapatnam led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.