International Yoga Day: Quotes, Wishes, Messages, Images, Date, and More

Introduction of International Yoga Day

International yoga day has been celebrated on 21st June since 2015.it was founded in a country called India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On 27th September 2014, he gave a speech at UNGA [United Nations General Assembly] stating that we should adopt In international yoga day as a yoga gift of the ancient tradition. Yoga is something that helps physically, mentally and spiritual practice. Yoga has originated since the time of ancient India. Despite the fact that to control the emotion and stillness of mind, try to detach the consciousness done by the mind. There are various goals and practices in yoga which are explained by Jainism, buddhism, Hinduism and modern forms that are practised worldwide. Types of yoga would come up as hatha yoga and asana yoga. 

It contains techniques to power over body and mind. Meditation has greatly influenced people from the 5th century as it means decorving dysfunction and finding inner peace. Yoga expands and raises the consciousness of being coexistent. It is the path to enlightenment that enables one illusion to reality. Deep breathing and slow movement warm up muscles and increase blood flow. It also strengthens the balance of the body. Help to ease arthritis as it discomforts the tender and joint to free up themselves. Reduce the stress that can cause multiple diseases. Aid to the body to relax, yoga has a lot of benefits for the body.

History of International Yoga Day

Yoga was practised 5,000 years ago and originated in ancient times. Developed interconnect mind, body and soul together. Firstly it was popularly practised in the Western side, a type of therapy and method to relax. In the United Assembly, 177 members joined in adopting International yoga day under Narendra Modi. Claims that heals injury, distressed mind and general well being. International yoga day Ambassador was introduced as Ashoke Kumar Mukherji. In 2015, 36000 people performed asana for an average of half an hour in Delhi since it's celebrated globally. 200 BC was the beginning of the existence of yoga. On 27th September 2014, Narendra Modi kept a proposal to create an international yoga day. First-ever celebration on 21st June 2015. The largest number of people took the initiative to participate in the 2018 event.

Why is International Yoga Day Celebrated? 

In Sanskrit, 'yoga' means to unite and symbolize the consciousness and union of the body. It is practised all over the world in various forms, and it's increasing in popularity. This day is about the benefits and needs to practice yoga. As a result, it makes us healthier. It also could affect our lifestyle, which is an essential element of life. Yoga is not a physical activity more than that. It maintains our body and mind simultaneously. Provide calmness and state to bring reality which every person should maintain to perform an action. Nourish our well being and fight to be fit. Fulfilling one's sense of being one's self. We all should adopt yoga day to day life. We celebrate on 21 st June every year. This day is also known as the summer solstice. Therefore, decided to celebrate a long day as international yoga day. There are different kinds of yoga poses that benefit in different ways. It's like in aspects of flexibility: bow poses for improving back flex, warrior 1 for flexibility in hips and core muscles. Yoga poses for runners would be low lunges for building stamina and developing glutes, seated forward bend to strengthen whole back muscles and many more for it. There are certain levels in yoga for every age to the point we decide to start yoga, in simple words, it has beginners level, moderate level and then at end advance level but it doesn't stop we keep learning more in it. 

How is International Yoga Day Celebrated? 

Yoga is for self, to self and through self. In the deep breathing process, when you inhale, you take strength from God, you exhale, you help once to live. We perform activities that raise yoga that include trying different poses, engaging to learn something fresh and new, joining yoga classes to motivate you and inspire others to do so. Exclusive things when we perform yoga, it has every kind of pose for each body type and also target any part of the body. International yoga day is celebrated through various themes of each year as the following are :

2018: event was held at Dehradun. Nearly 50000 volunteers were hired to celebrate International yoga day, and it was the fourth anniversary as it started in 2015. Average 100000 attend the gathering to perform the yoga for peace theme of yoga. 

2019: Many parts of India celebrated the day, but the main was Ranchi, where India's prime minister addressed the important and most of yoga for peace and harmony. The theme was 'Yoga for heart'. 

2020: Amid the pandemic, not much was conducted as the usual theme was given as ' yoga at home and with family ' to feel safe and secure. 

2021: Online face to face events were held by the United Nations though of the pandemic. Basically, the theme was ' yoga for well being ' . 

When is International Yoga Day Celebrated? 

All over the world, it is celebrated on 21st June, but few celebrate it, but each and every person performs yoga as it is a basic exercise which has all in one it could be replaced by cardio, stretching and many forms of other exercise. We did not have to dedicate all day to yoga but a few minutes to be fit. One day wouldn't make any sense, but we have to do at least three months, 10 minutes a day, to see results. 

International Yoga Day 2022 Date

• When is International Yoga Day 2023?

International Yoga Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/observed on Wedneday, 21 June.

• International Yoga Day dates for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026

International Yoga Day Quotes

• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.
• In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not. - Yogi Berra
• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. - B.K.S. Iyengar
• Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.- David Williams
• When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. - Hatha Yoga Pradipika
• You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. - Sharon Gannon
• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. - B.K.S. Iyengar
• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth. - Sharon Gannon
• The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. - Rodney Yee
• A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. - T. Guillemets
• Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. - Baxter Bell
• REAL Peace is always unshakable... Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss. - Yogi Bhajan
• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. - Mr. Yoga

International Yoga Day Wishes

• Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are
• Happy International Yoga Day 2022 !
• Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.
• Live long and healthy life. Each aasan a day keeps illness away. Enjoy yoga!
• Yoga is all about creating a balance in your life. It is about balancing your senses, balancing your body, soul and mind in order to live healthy and live in peace.
• Releasing stress and anger by practicing Yoga!
• Yoga is the Practice that originated in India but is practised widely throughout!
• Yoga happens beyond the mat, anything you do with attention to how you feel is doing yoga.
• Yoga is that Journey which takes you to your real Self, to your Soul, through your own Self.
• Have a Great and Healthy International Yoga Day!
• Yoga implies, Addition of Energy and subtraction of wasting energy, Strengthen the Beauty of Body, Mind and Soul with Yoga
• Yoga is that Light, which, if you can lit once; will Never get Dimmed, the more you Practice, the Brighter the Flame will be.
• Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.
• Yoga is that music, which keeps you flowing, The Rhythm of the body gets in tune with life, The harmony of the souls and the melody of the mind create the symphony of life!
• Yoga gives the Perfect platform to explore in deep about who you actually are'.
• Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
• Inculcate the habit of practicing yoga in your life!
• True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.
• For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself.
• Happy soul, a fresh mind, and a healthy body. All three can be achieved with yoga!
• YOGA is the gateway to happiness that the body needs in daily life!

International Yoga Day Messages

• Transcend from the state of being in the state of sorrow to that of happiness with Yoga!
• Yoga is the only key to be fit and it’s essential to do it daily to keep your mind stress free!
• The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.
• Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
• Yoga is not a command performance. It is an invitation to explore.
• Yoga gives us the lesson to cure what is fatal to be endured and to endure what you cannot cure.
• Yoga Improves Immunity by freeing you from toxins!
• Yoga shows you the path to Freedom. By practicing it constantly we can free ourselves from Anguish, Fear, and Loneliness and move towards the path to happiness
• Yoga is as old as India.
• Discover your inner peace with Yoga!
• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
• A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
• We do not have the power to always take Control of what is going outside, But thankfully, you have the power to take Control of what is going inside you'
• Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down.
• Yoga means addition. Addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.
• Be a part of International Yoga day to draw more and more people towards practising Yoga!
• Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will.
• When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.
• Yoga without requiring to be paid pays you with sound health leading to great wealth!
• Wishing You Happy International Yoga Day 2022 !
• When you embrace yoga, you are actually accepting the good thing around you. Happy Yoga Day to you.
• Yoga introduces you to as way of rediscovering yourself A sense of completeness gets in tune with life!
• The yoga pose you avoid the most you need the most.
• Yoga is all about striking a balance in life and therefore, you must make it a part of your life.
• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
• Yoga is a light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.
• Yoga does not just change the way we see things, It transforms the person who sees.
• Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.
• This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.
• Yoga teaches us to be in harmony, to become A means! Once you start practicing it you realise that now you will be in harmony, You will have to become one.
• You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
• Wishing You a Very Happy Yoga Day
• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
• Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
• Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.

Interesting facts about Yoga

1. People in the US practice yoga regularly approx 36 million. 
2. 50% of growth is seen in America over the last few years. 
3. Women take more initiative to practice yoga. 72% of all are women. 
4. Yoga is practised by the age range from 30 to 60 years. 
5. Complementary health yoga is an approach in the US. 
6. Yoga has at least 100 types of yoga. 
7. Yoga has many benefits, but the most special is it delays the aging process. Research has shown that. 
8. Spending in America comes in exactly $ 16 billion for equipment and classes. 
9. Yoga is becoming a career choice for most people in the world. 
10. Yoga was practised over 5000 years back but adopted in 2014.
11. Its form of healing practices for good well being to treat physical health. 
12. Until 1932 women were not allowed to enter yoga classes. 
13. It is a product of globalization and is considered one of the successful ones. 
14. Angela Former created the first yoga mat in 1932.
15. Earlier it was believed we have a limited number of breaths. We shout to make it longer by practising deep breaths.

Conclusion

Yoga is essential for the body, beneficial for the soul, and to improve our working. We should love to spread its importance and awareness of how it's important. National yoga day is the day that could make it happen at the end. Fitness should be the goal of every year with different aspects because it has variety in itself. Yoga has every small part of every different type of fitness like cardio could be replaced by power yoga, stretching exercise replaced by heal yoga or yin yoga.