People participate in a mass yoga exercise to mark the 5th International Day of Yoga at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University last year. Still, after five years of big events celebrating the International Day of Yoga at Chulalongkorn University, the pandemic this year forces the Indian embassy to only hold a small event and live stream it so that yoga lovers can join virtually tomorrow. Based on the Indian initiative, the UN adopted a consensus resolution declaring June 21 as the International Day of Yoga. Since 2015, the International Day of Yoga has been observed every year with enthusiasm all over the world, including in Thailand. The first codified text on yoga, the Yoga Sutra (sutras are aphorisms) by the great Indian sage Patanjali is said to have been composed about 2,500 years ago.

Source: Bangkok Post June 19, 2020 21:45 UTC