These yoga pics will inspire you to get on the mat.
The prime minister, wearing an especially customised white yoga T-shirt and trousers, began his address with a 'Namaste' and thanked people for coming here from far away to attend the celebration.
Bollywood celebrated International Yoga Day by posting pictures from their yoga sessions.
Rediff reader Shikha signed up for yoga two years ago and has since never looked back.
From a fitness instructor to a top international fashion model and a danseuse -- a range of people have penned books to make yoga relevant to modern lifestyles and help to cope with everything from trauma to weight loss.
Dinacharya is a Sanskrit term for daily rituals that one must practice regularly to live in sync with nature.
An excerpt from Fitness Secrets of the Stars.
Yoga is considered a form of exercise by those who follow it and those who want to. But the ancient practice goes beyond just physical well-being
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma suggests ways to calm the stomach.
Set aside a few minutes from your busy schedule and try these postures.
'Yoga is magic!' 'Other than keeping me physically fit, it helps me be calm and emotionally balanced. It gives me a lot of energy that keeps me productive throughout the day.'
Yoga expert Shikha Pandey tells you how effective breathing can help you balance your energies and improve the health of your lungs.
Gorgeous model-actress Lisa Haydon shares her beauty secrets.
Yogini and wellness entrepreneur Radhika Iyer Talati tells you how simple modifications in your lifestyle can help you lead a healthy life.
'Few practitioners of yoga doing the Surya Namaskar, including lakhs of Americans and Europeans, see it as a form of worshipping the sun. They do it because it is good exercise.' 'In my view Muslim groups need to be more flexible on such things and not present their problem in terms that are confrontational.' 'Having said that, are they over-reacting? The history and the background of the government and its ministers would lead us to believe otherwise,' says Aakar Patel.
They take our fitness goals out of the constraints of time and space and find us everywhere we go, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Job creation was mentioned 13 times in the BJP's 2014 election manifesto, yoga only twice. Has yoga taken precedence over jobs for the Modi Sarkar, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Radhika Vachani, Founder of Yogacara Healing Arts takes you through it.
Actress Shilpa Shetty advocates yoga for a holistic approach to life.
A food consultant tries to channel her healthier side, and here's what she discovers.
Two of the greatest modern exponents of yoga began their life in Mysore, under the tutelage of the legendary Krishnamacharya. For both of them, life was yoga. And yoga was life, says Sunaad Raghuram.