International Yoga Day: What Is It, How Is It Celebrated And What Easy Poses Can I Try Out?
International Yoga Day is now in its fourth year (Picture: Getty)
Today is a good day: not only is it the summer solstice, but it’s also International Yoga Day, which is celebrated by thousands of people around the world.
Find out how you can celebrate the day and how to get started with some easy yoga poses if you’re a beginner.
What is International Yoga Day?
International Yoga Day is now in its fifth year after the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) announced its inception in 2015.
The date was suggested by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his UN address, owing to it being the longest day of the year.
How do people celebrate International Yoga Day?
Thousands of people across India celebrated today through an array of events, including the main event held in Ranchi which was attended by over 40,000 people.
There are lots of events happening this weekend across the country, including free workshops and exclusive classes held by clothing store Sweaty Betty.
A yoga session today in Allahabad (Picture: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
Check out Eventbrite to see what events are happening near you.
If you’re not able to attend an event, you can always roll out your mat and attempt some yoga at home. More on that below…
What easy yoga poses can I try out for International Yoga Day?
There are lots of yoga poses for beginners you can try out at home:
Downward dog: Get on your hands and knees and set your knees directly below your hip. Exhale to lift your tailbone up and back and ensure you keep a slight bend in the knees. Send your heels towards the mat, allow your head to be heavy and send your palms into the mat. Breathe deeply into the back-line.
The downward dog is an easy pose for beginners (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Child’s pose: Kneel on the floor and align your big toes together. Sit back towards your heels then separate your knees about as wide as your hips, allowing your tailbone to drop down towards to the mat. Let your forehead rest on the mat and breathe deeply into your back.
Child’s pose can be a nice if you need a quick break during your practice (Picture: Getty)
Cat/cow: This is a gentle pose which helps prepare the body for other poses. Start by lifting your tailbone before taking your gaze along the floor to find a gentle back-bend and then curve through the back. Allow your head to be heavy and release the crown of your head toward the floor. Send the floor away through the hands and shins.
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International Yoga Day: Poses And Exercises That Will Help You Lose Weight Fast And Easily:
Have you tried everything from diets to heading to the gym to lose weight? Have none of them worked? Try out these simple and easy yoga poses!
Ever gone through multiple phases to get rid of that excess weight? Have you been through multiple gym sessions and been watching your diet constantly? Is losing weight your biggest goal? Have you tried every weight loss tip in the world? Then it is time to switch things up! There are multiple yoga poses that help accelerate weight loss and they are quite simple!
Planks
One of the best exercises to strengthen the core muscles and lose weight easily are planks. It may not look like too much effort is being made in this pose since all you need to do is draw your heels and the top of your head in different directions and keep your chest in between your arms while moving forward. Doing this on a daily basis will ensure you lose your belly fat and get rock hard abs.
The Triangle
This exercise may also not look like much, but it will make your muscles shake and tone them. You need to spread your legs wide and ensure your hands are spread out and are parallel to the floor. Twist your body and make your right hand touch your left leg and vice versa. This will tone the muscles in your arms and legs.
The Downward Dog
Want to tone your entire body at once? Opt for the downward dog position as it focuses on strengthening your arms and thighs. You need to bend and touch your hands to the floor with enough gap between your hands and feet. Then try to move your hands as close as possible to your feet without bending your knees. And don't forget to breathe!
The Bridge
This exercise is great for those who have ailments like thyroid and glutes and even accelerates weight loss.
You need to lie down straight on a mat and bend your knees bringing your feet as close to your buttocks. This helps the abdomen in losing weight and improves digestion.
Sun Salutation
One of the easiest exercises in the books, all you need to do here is lie down flat on your stomach, lay your palms flat on the ground parallel to your body and lift your upper body up while craning your neck backwards. Stretch as much as possible for a toned chest, midriff, arms and balance your metabolism.
Four Easy Yoga Poses That’ll SLASH Your Blood Pressure In 15 Minutes:
YOGA may be even as effective as taking pills to chop force per unit area.
Doing just 15 minutes a WEEK reduced readings by around ten per cent, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Munich.
Doing just 15 minutes a week reduced readings by around ten per cent, according to recent research
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Doing just 15 minutes a week reduced readings by around ten per cent, according to recent research credit: Getty - Contributor
That is a similar drop to what patients can expect after taking a water pill – commonly given to treat high blood pressure.
Twelve million Brits take drugs for the condition, which is the country’s biggest cause of heart disease and stroke.
Here, Jess Lester suggests four yoga moves even beginners will master reception.
Cow face Bend your right arm over your head and down your back, then bend your left arm and reach it up to your back
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Bend your right arm over your head and down your back, then bend your left arm and reach it up to your bank credit: Getty - Contributor
SITTING on the floor, cross your left leg over your right, sliding your right foot back until the top of your foot rests on the floor.
Bend your right arm over your head and down your back, then bend your left arm and reach it up to your back.
Clasp your hands together and hold the pose.
The model does yoga in public wearing body paint instead of clothes Flapping fish Bend your left knee, moving it close towards your chest and keep the right leg straight and hold the pose
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Bend your left knee, moving it close towards your chest and keep the right leg straight and hold the pose
LIE on your stomach with your head on one side, your right hand over your left and your head resting on the back of your hands, facing your left shoulder.
Bend your left knee, moving it close towards your chest.
Keep the correct leg straight and hold the cause.
Three-leg downward dog Stretch out your elbows and lift the knees off the floor to make your body into a triangle
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Stretch out your elbows and carry the knees off the ground to form your body into a triangleCredit: Getty - Contributor
Starting on hands and knees, make sure your wrists are under your shoulders and your knees under your hips.
Stretch out your elbows and lift the knees off the floor to make your body into a triangle.
Spread your fingers for balance.
Then lift one leg into the air in line with your torso and hold.
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Limb staff Keeping your elbows tight into your body, bend your arms and lower your body until your shoulders are level with your elbows
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Keeping your elbows tight into your body, bend your arms and lower your body until your shoulders are level with your elbowsCredit: Getty - Contributor
ON your hands and knees, wrists under your shoulders, step your feet behind you, shoulder-width apart, into a plank.
Keeping your elbows tight into your body, bend your arms and lower your body until your shoulders are level with your elbows.
Hold.
Loose Women's Linda Robson shows off her favourite yoga poses
Fitness Class Clarkson: Unheralded Part Of Farmers Market:
I greeted July’s first morning with a “Namaste” in Burlington Park at my first-ever yoga class. To be the age I am and to consider that I lived in India, home of yoga, for three years and have yet to attempt yoga says something about my pursuit of inner and outer fitness.
How many people have their first exposure to Warrior One right across from a van selling tamales and another one making baby doughnuts? When we were done stretching, folding, bending and posing, I searched out the tamale and the baby doughnut as well as a big juice, hunk of cheese and a container of fresh raspberries all right there at the Hinsdale Farmers Market. I am sure that was the point.
The word “free” is what attracted me to Burlington Park in the first place. I was participating in Free Fitness in the Park offered Monday mornings as the farmers market opens. That particular Monday morning, Katya Sidelnik of Inner Jasmine Yoga led the group in serene stretching. I was super focused on the physical part of the stretching and the deliberate inhaling and exhaling. I was also conscious of the soothing music Sidelnik played as she guided us.
I delighted to be outside so early — 7 a.m. on a Monday with no rain in sight. OK, there was no way to ignore the cacophony of Metra North chugging into Chicago and chugging back from Chicago. I saw people dressed up for work rushing to catch those trains. When we lay on our backs to hug our knees, I looked up at the layers of clouds crossing quickly in the sky and noticed the planes piercing the blue, adding their own noise to the morning.
Maybe that doesn’t describe the typical yoga experience, but I really enjoyed mine, and I will go back.
Free Fitness in the Park was an idea of the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce’s, said Chamber board chair Gretchen Barnard, a fellow yogi that morning. She told me that board members had tossed the idea around for a few years and this year they approached several area fitness spots and asked if they would be willing to put on programs during the farmers market.
Inner Jasmine has hosted the fitness now twice and will be up again Aug. 5, Sept. 16 and Oct. 7. Five Seasons Club will host fitness training on Aug. 12; F45 Training Hinsdale offers its class on July 15 and Aug. 26. Club Pilates in Westmont offers classes on July 22, Sept. 30 and the last Monday of the farmers market, Oct. 14.
Energie Pilates offers a class on July 29 and again on Sept. 9, and Shred415 HIIT Fitness Training offers classes on Aug. 19, and Sept. 2 and 23. Check with the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce about the specific times because the classes will start later depending on sunrise and each studio’s schedule.
It was fun to be out there, and I found it a great way to try something new without the pressure or awkwardness of showing up at a studio. Having said that, I found out I was not good at the tree pose, the one where you stand on one leg and place the sole of the other foot on your calf. This is much harder than you think. But it was early, and I am not sure too many people were looking at me and what I was or was not doing.
Later that Monday, I was out walking my in-town errands and walked through the farmers market again. I bumped into some old friends I had not seen in a while, chatted them up and noticed quite a few other tables set up in addition to the tempting meat and fish, produce, cheeses, oils and fruit.
For more information, visit www.hindalechamber.com and click on the link which describes the weekly activities. It will show the exact time of the free fitness classes each week.
Be sure, too, to check out the new farmers market in Clarendon Hills on Thursday mornings at Park and Prospect avenues.
'Fitness Czar' Of Houston Ranks 10 Fittest TV News Personalities In The Bayou City:
Samir Becic, the "Fitness Czar" of Houston, has graded the ten fittest TV personalities within the lake town. He additionally named 3 unearned members to the list.
Pictured: Ivory Hecker, Fox 26 reporter.
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PHOTOS: Samir Becic, the "Fitness Czar" of Houston, has ranked the 10 fittest TV personalities in the Bayou City. He also named three honorary members to the list.
Pictured: Ivory Hecker, Fox 26 reporter.
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Samir Becic is understood for finishing extreme physical challenges.
While carrying a seventy-three .5-pound vest, the locally-based fitness trainer ran seven marathons in eight weeks in 2017.
In 2018, he wore a 200-pound weighted vest for 6 weeks to simulate living as a morbidly weighty person.
Becic, WHO was appointed "Fitness Czar" of Houston in Gregorian calendar month by politician Sylvester Turner, told Chron.com his intent, then and now, is to spread the message of a healthy lifestyle.
His latest project? Ranking Houston's 10 fittest TV news personalities.
"For decades, Houston has been referred to as one in all the fattest cities within the U.S.," Becic said. "People in TV news square measure visible and may be associate degree example for others during this town."
Becic same he reviewed the lifestyles of one hundred twenty Houston TV news personalities before whittling down the list to ten supported 3 factors: Physical activity and nutrition, that is fifty per cent of the entire score, and age, that accounts for twenty-five p.c.
How much the individual promotes health and fitness onscreen, on social media and at public makes up the remaining twenty-five p.c.
Becic's prime ten list includes Fox twenty-six newsperson Ivory Hecker, who ranked high for her dedication to a regular workout routine and healthy eating.
KTRK anchor Chauncy Glover, World Health Organization keeps work by touching the gymnasium frequently and taking part in recreational sports, conjointly created the cut.
In addition to Becic's top 10 fittest in TV, he also named three honorary TV news personalities to the list: Dominique Sachse, Melissa Wilson and Deborah Duncan.
"They go higher than and on the far side to market health and fitness in our nice town," he said. "They are also extremely fit. They have no competition."
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