Yoga from Home Is Easy… If You’ve Been Acing Shavasana During Lockdown Like Us

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Yoga from Home Is Easy… If You’ve Been Acing Shavasana During Lockdown Like Us

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Illustration: Mitesh Parmar

This Sunday will mark the sixth edition of International Yoga Day, and it comes at a time when home workouts are at peak popularity thanks to the coronavirus pandemic keeping most people at home. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been International Yoga Day’s most prominent ambassador, and he’s back at it this year as well. On Thursday evening, he announced that unlike previous years’ editions, International Yoga Day 2020 will be celebrated with the themes of “yoga at home” and “yoga with family”.

Noted dear PM, that should be easy. With nothing much to do, many of us have been acing shavasana at home.

In his video address, PM Modi said, “These are times of distance, but yoga is what ends distance”, by bringing the mind and body closer together.

With “yoga from home” as the theme, we will miss the usual action – the PM running on pebbles and performing yoga on the rocks. But the government has organised a “My Life My Yoga” contest, inviting people to upload videos of themselves performing yoga asanas for a cash prize of up to ₹100,000.

And already, the submissions have begun rolling in on social media. Some users have gone all out by adding special video backgrounds as well.

And some are turning this into “yoga from office” exercise.

There are also a few entrants who didn’t use the hashtag or upload a video, but still pulled off such impressive asanas that one hopes they’re still eligible for the contest.

June 21 is the last date for entries to the “My Life My Yoga” concert and there are sure to be submissions featuring multiple generations of households across India performing yoga asanas. But one wonders how many of those this woman will feature in, after appearing in multiple tweets where far-flung users all claimed she was their mother shedding a tear for PM Modi’s address on the confrontation on the India-China border.

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