New Delhi: Yoga helps in self discipline it inculcated faith in people that they could fight against Covid – 19, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of 7^th International Yoga Day.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the Nation said yoga shows us the road from stress to strength and from negativity to positivity.

International Yoga Day is celebrated every year on June 21. The UN General Assembly in 2014 overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution, declaring June 21 as International Yoga Day. A record 177 countries supported the resolution. As per the UN website, the theme for Yoga Day this year is Yoga for Well-Being and how the practice of yoga can promote the holistic health of every individual.

Yoga became a source of inner strength among people amid the Covid – 19 pandemic and inculcated faith in them that they could fight the virus, he said. He also said when Covid – 19 emerged, no country was prepared. Frontline warriors told me that they made yoga a tool in fighting the virus, yoga became a source of inner strength. Yoga helps in self-discipline, PM Modi.

Yoga often gives us a way of holistic health, he said, adding that several studies are taking place around the world on the benefits of yoga on our body and immunity. We see that yoga and breathing exercises are being done at the beginning of online classes. This is helping children in fighting the virus, PM Modi said.