At the Yoga Day event hosted at the UN headquarters in New York, the yoga class conducted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a Guinness World Record for having the most participants from different nations. To commemorate the ninth annual International Yoga Day, the event was planned.
Since its declaration by the UN General Assembly in 2014, the world has celebrated the International Day of Yoga on June 21 every year.
This year, the Yoga session hosted at the UN headquarters had participants from the greatest number of nationalities, setting a Guinness World Record.
According to Michael Empric, an official adjudicator for Guinness global Records, the global record was successfully broken today for the most nationalities participating in a yoga lesson. 140 nationalities was the required number. At the UN right now, there are 135 people. It now has a brand-new Guinness World Record.
At the PM Modi-led yoga programme, other well-known individuals also took part. Award-winning Indian chef and restaurateur Vikas Khanna, well-known Hollywood actor Richard Gere, acclaimed storyteller Jay Shetty, American vocalist Falguni Shah, and others were on the roster of notables. Before the event began, Gere arrived at the UN building and remarked, “It is a very nice feeling here today.”
Addressing the event, ahead of the Yoga session, PM Modi said, “We’ve gathered here at the meeting point of entire humanity. I am delighted to see you all and thank you all for coming. I am told that almost every nationality is represented here today. Yoga means to unite, so you are coming together is an expression of another form of Yoga.”
“Yoga comes from India, it is an old tradition. Yoga is free from copyright, free from patents, and free from royalty,” the prime minister said.
With the involvement of 1.53 lakh individuals in the programming, a Yoga Day event organised in Surat city of the Indian state of Gujarat on Wednesday set a new Guinness World Record for the greatest gathering of people for a yoga session.
“The Yoga Day event in Surat has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people for a yoga session in one place. More than one lakh people took part in the event and broke the previous record,” according to Harsh Sanghavi, the state minister for housing in Gujarat.
“While the state government had set a target of 1.25 lakh people for the Yoga session in Surat, officials of the Guinness World Records have confirmed that more than 1.50 lakh people gathered at the venue,” said Shalini Agarwal, Commissioner, Surat Municipal Corporation.
Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat, attended the state-wide commemoration of the International Day of Yoga in the Surat neighbourhood of Dumas.
