In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has influenced the Hindus to continue their culture's ancient health tradition, Yoga. Mondi has taken this discipline on a flight by engaging Air India's new cabin crews to early morning yoga sessions.
Time reports that Air India has scheduled Yoga lessons at 6:30 AM for the state-owned aircraft's new recruits. This discipline was inspired by Modi, who is a vegetarian and an avid yoga practitioner himself.
"We have introduced yoga for the first time in our training module for pilots and cabin crew, as we believe that yoga brings in a sense of discipline as well as help cope better with the stress of the job," an official of the aircraft company said.
Aside from flying employees, the Prime Minister will take the New Delhi grounds, to lead 35,000 expected participants in a Yoga session, June 21. Proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Yoga Day, as proposed by Modi, health officials and other state leaders will gather with the public for the day's celebration.
Time added the prime minister encourages this health activity to be a "mass movement globally."
Let's work together & make 1st ever International Day of Yoga a success. I request people from all walks of life to actively participate.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 28, 2015
"If they practise every day for even 15-20 minutes, they will be ready for the big day," a government official speaking in behalf of the prime minister tells The Telegraph UK. "It will be for their own benefit, it will be a good experience."
As a regular routine, this Indian mental, spiritual and physical exercise has various healthy effects on people. Yoga Journal describes the Sanskrit word as "well-formed, refined, perfect or polished."
The journal also listed some basics for yoga beginners, such as the discipline's famous words and gestures: Namaste, a Sanskrit word that means the soul recognizes another soul through the energy coming from the heart chakra; and Om, a mantra chanted during Yoga that said to be vibrating the sound of the universe.
Yoga is one of the most-practiced health activities not just in India, but all over the world as well.
