The theme of this year's festival is 'Yoga for Women Empowerment' and will be performed on the North Lawn of the UN Headquarters where diplomats, UN officials and staff and admirers of the ancient art will perform asanas in synchronicity.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed is expected to attend the event and a video message from General Assembly President Denis Francis is expected.
The global celebrations, attended by millions of people every year, were initiated by the General Assembly in December 2014, when it declared 21 June as International Yoga Day in a resolution proposed by India, which was sponsored by 175 countries and adopted unanimously. I went.
The date was chosen because in most years the summer solstice falls on the same day in the Northern Hemisphere, although this year and next it is a day earlier.
Yoga Utsav is here at 6 pm.New York time (3:30 am IST Saturday) will be webcast by the United Nations (https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bvb85iak).
With temperatures blazing 35 degrees centigrade, it will be held on a day that is predicted to be the hottest day so far this year.
India's UN Mission is sponsoring it along with the UN Secretariat.
Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Yoga Fest at the United Nations and it made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest number of 135 nationalities.
On Thursday, the day of Sankranti, the annual 'Mind over Madness' event will be held at Times Square with day-long yoga sessions, an island of peace and calm amid the noise and bustle of the place known as 'The Crossroads' Will be prepared.Of the World'.
The Consulate General of India is one of the sponsors of the event which runs from 7.30 am to 8.30 pm. And it includes seven yoga classes led by instructors of many ethnicities and national origins, showing the universality of yoga.
PM Modi introduced the idea of International Yoga Day in his first address to the General Assembly in September 2014, declaring, "Yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition".
Ashok Kumar Mukherjee, who was the Permanent Representative at the time, gathered 175 cosponsors from international divisions and adopted it within three months.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed is expected to attend the event and a video message from General Assembly President Denis Francis is expected.
The global celebrations, attended by millions of people every year, were initiated by the General Assembly in December 2014, when it declared 21 June as International Yoga Day in a resolution proposed by India, which was sponsored by 175 countries and adopted unanimously. I went.
The date was chosen because in most years the summer solstice falls on the same day in the Northern Hemisphere, although this year and next it is a day earlier.
Yoga Utsav is here at 6 pm.New York time (3:30 am IST Saturday) will be webcast by the United Nations (https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bvb85iak).
With temperatures blazing 35 degrees centigrade, it will be held on a day that is predicted to be the hottest day so far this year.
India's UN Mission is sponsoring it along with the UN Secretariat.
Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Yoga Fest at the United Nations and it made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest number of 135 nationalities.
On Thursday, the day of Sankranti, the annual 'Mind over Madness' event will be held at Times Square with day-long yoga sessions, an island of peace and calm amid the noise and bustle of the place known as 'The Crossroads' Will be prepared.Of the World'.
The Consulate General of India is one of the sponsors of the event which runs from 7.30 am to 8.30 pm. And it includes seven yoga classes led by instructors of many ethnicities and national origins, showing the universality of yoga.
PM Modi introduced the idea of International Yoga Day in his first address to the General Assembly in September 2014, declaring, "Yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition".
Ashok Kumar Mukherjee, who was the Permanent Representative at the time, gathered 175 cosponsors from international divisions and adopted it within three months.
