International Yoga Day 2021: PM Modi launches mYoga App

Team Udayavani, Jun 21, 2021, 11:41 AM IST

On the occasion of International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mYoga app.

The app is available on the Google Play store. mYoga app will be accessible around the world and will deliver the benefits of Yoga to millions via audio and video training modules in different languages.

“When India proposed International Day of Yoga in the United Nations, it was the spirit behind it to make this yoga science accessible to the whole world. In collaboration with WHO, India has taken another important step. Now there will be M-Yoga app, which will have yoga training videos in different languages for people across the world. This will help us in our ‘One World, One Health’ motto,” PM Modi said.

Addressing the #YogaDay programme. https://t.co/tHrldDlX5c

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 21, 2021

mYoga app is a work of collaboration between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (Ministry of AYUSH), Government of India. The app will provide users with a collection of videos and audio practice sessions that they can do at home as and when they want.

According to WHO, the mYoga app was developed through a “review of scientific literature and extensive international expert consultation processes.”

The app does not collect any data from users at all and is currently available in English, Hindi and French. It will be available in other UN languages in the upcoming months.

The mYoga app is now available in stores. Let us take an IDY resolution with mYoga.#YogaForWellness#अंतर्राष्ट्रीय_योग_दिवस pic.twitter.com/pvvGmooR3H

— Ministry of Ayush (@moayush) June 21, 2021

Virtually celebrating the International Yoga Day 2021, PM Modi said, “For two years now, no public event has been organised in India or the world but enthusiasm for Yoga has not gone down.”

The theme for International Yoga Day 2021 is is ‘Yoga For Wellness’  focuses on “practicing Yoga for physical and mental wellbeing.”