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Recently, The Huffington Post announced UN General Assembly, describing the ancient that yoga today is a US$27 billion industry. science as India’s gift to the world. “People are taking charge of their spiritual Over the last few years, my personal lives in a yogic way. That’s changing the face of interactions have been diverse: from meeting spirituality”. Travel and Leisure, a seven time WWE champion Trish Stratus who is a nine-year Time Inc. publication, lists top 25 Witnessing the yoga veteran and runs one of global destinations. Interestingly potential of this Toronto’s largest yoga studios to at these locations, you can billion dollar Mari Myllykoski from Finland, a practice yoga in 11 international brand of India, yoga practitioner for more than languages: Khmer, Japanese, the Indian Prime half-her-life. Every time I enter a Spanish, Thai, French, Italian, Minister called Lululemon store, a yoga clothing German and Danish to name a for observing an company, it amazes me. Taking off few. A google map of yoga shows International in Vancouver in 1998, it has 2,800 its presence from the farthest city Yoga Day employees and US$ 1.3 billion as in the east, Kamui, revenue. Last week in Thailand, Japan to Halibut Cove, I came across a yogurt cup with a yoga asana Alaska in the West. From Norge, Norway in the north to Antartica on the packaging. I am yet to visit a city in the Chilena, Chile in the south: An world where I don’t find a yoga studio. undisputable global footprint. As the world shrinks into a seamless entity of Perhaps witnessing the potential information and interaction, with social media of this billion dollar brand of India networks, mobile phones and the internet can bring to the world, Indian blurring the lines of differentiation, I cannot Prime Minister Mr Narendra agree more that we need an International Day Modi called for observing an of Yoga, a day when the entire world reflects on International Yoga Day at the this ancient art form and furthers its adoption.
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