{"id":581,"date":"2015-06-20T01:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=581"},"modified":"2015-06-22T03:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T03:41:44","slug":"australia-joins-india-for-international-yoga-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Australia joins India for International Yoga Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-582\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"YOGA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Welcoming the upcoming International Yoga Day on June 21, Australia\u2019s High Commissioner Patrick Suckling on Friday said the event was an \u2018affirmation of universal acceptance of Yoga as a practice for mental and physical well-being\u2019.\u00a0\u2018The celebration is also a success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s belief in Yoga,\u2019 an Australian High Commission release here quoted Suckling as saying. Read: India to lead 193 countries on International Yoga Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that along with India and the rest of the world, Australia too will celebrate the day.\u00a0\u2018In Melbourne, Yoga Australia will host along with the Indian Consulate the 8th Annual International Yoga Conference on the theme \u2018Yoga for Health \u2013 Physical, Mental, Social and Spiritual\u2019,\u2019 the release said. Read also: International Yoga Day 2015: What to expect from PM Narendra\u2019s Modi\u2019s Rajpath Yoga camp<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Australia in November 2014, Modi presented a book on Yoga to Australian Premier Tony Abbott. Modi said he was aware that Yoga was \u2018enormously popular\u2019 in Australia, the statement recalled.\u00a0Making a call on September 27, 2014, at the UN General Assembly on Yoga, Modi said: \u2018Yoga embodies unity of mind and body, thought and action, restraint and fulfilment, harmony between man and nature, a holistic approach to health and well-being.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The fact that the UN General Assembly resolution on the commemoration of International Yoga Day was co-sponsored by 177 member-nations and did not have to be voted upon, is testament to the universal recognition of the benefits of Yoga in the context of health challenges of the 21st century,\u2019 Suckling said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcoming the upcoming International Yoga Day on June 21, Australia\u2019s High Commissioner Patrick Suckling on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[11,5,9,29,10,28,33,25],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",620,349,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/YOGA.jpg",480,270,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}