{"id":10519,"date":"2023-05-02T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:17:32","slug":"international-day-of-yoga-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-day-of-yoga-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Yoga 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Ayush Ministry<\/strong> is organising the event with active support and cooperation of the state government of Rajasthan, local authorities and various institutions with an objective to boost <strong>Medical Value Travel through Yoga.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This year, the Ministry of Ayush is also exploring the possibility of organising <strong>Common Yoga Protocol (CYP)<\/strong> demonstrations at important ports across globe covering all oceans and at all functional <strong>Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs)<\/strong> spread across the country and Ayush Gram in each state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About Yoga:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yoga is the basic foundation of Indian culture which is the biggest medium of<strong> self-development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>More than 50 centuries ago, yoga&#8217;s journey as an ancient Indian science of healing and exercise started somewhere in the Indus-Sarasvati civilisation in northern India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The word &#8220;yoga&#8221; means &#8220;to yoke or join&#8221;<\/strong>. It means the &#8220;union&#8221;, the ultimate union between our consciousness and the higher consciousness, which some call God or divine.<\/li>\n<li>The word also refers to the <strong>union of body, mind and spirit,<\/strong> which we can achieve through various practices and postures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yoga exercises such as \u2018B<strong>hastrika\u2019, \u2018Kapalbhati\u2019, \u2018Anulom Vilom\u2019 and \u2018Bhramari\u2019,<\/strong> among others can make both the body and mind healthy.<\/li>\n<li>Decreases the levels of cortisol, or the stress hormone in our body.<\/li>\n<li>Helps with insomnia, and improves digestion, both of which are impacted by stress.<\/li>\n<li>Eases depression, anxiety, and mood swings by restoring dopamine and serotonin in the brain.<\/li>\n<li>Specific yogic breathing techniques like Ujjayi breath and Brahmari breath help tone the vagus nerve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1) What do you mean by AYUSH?<\/p>\n<p>AYUSH is an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy and are the six Indian systems of medicine prevalent and practiced in India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Yoga-Mahotsav-to-mark-50-days-countdown-to-International-Day-of-Yoga-2023-begins-in-Jaipur&amp;id=460261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yoga Mahotsav to mark 50 days countdown to International Day of Yoga begins in Jaipur; More than 15,000 people take part in event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayush Ministry is organising the event with the objective to boost Medical Value Travel through Yoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}