raipur eighth international yoga day was celebrated with fervour across chhattisgarh on tuesday while chief minister bhupesh baghel joined yoga day celebrations at chhattisgarh sadan in new delhi more than 1200 people performed various asanas at the premises of mata kausalya temple dedicated to the mother of lord ramvarious programmers were organized across the state by many institutions and organisations to mark the international yoga daychief minister baghel performed various yoga asanas in the morning at chhattisgarh sadan extending greetings to the people of state he appealed to them to add yoga in their daily routine to maintain a healthy body and mindsustained health and fitness are the biggest achievement of all yoga is a spiritual process which binds mind body and soul in one lets add yoga in our daily routine for our physical psychological and mental wellbeing yoga is more than just a workout involving both mind and body said baghel in a messagehe said covid19 pandemic has shown us the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle therefore practicing yoga on a regular basis is important to stay healthy and fit yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition it brings positivity in ones life he said that you will be strong enough to face any adverse situation if your mind and body are both healthya districtlevel program on the theme of yoga for humanitywas organized by chhattisgarh state gau seva aayog chairman mahant ramsunder das the program started with the state song school students teachers and office bearers of nehru yuva kendra and common people participated in the yoga session in large numbersextending his wishes speaker dr charandas mahant motivated the students to practice yoga regularly he said that yoga helps in maintaining a healthy body and a balanced life yoga increases physical and mental capacityin the program yoga instructors performed the frontleaning asanas such as paschimottanasana padahastasana backward bending postures chakrasana sitting postures padmasana lying postures makarasana standing postures tadasana vrikshasana yoga instructors also gave detailed information about the importance and benefits of various yoga asanas they also informed that yoga helps in achieving mental peace and balanceindian institute of management raipur organized the 8th international yoga day in association with the yoga institute raipur all faculty staff and their family members including kids and research scholars performed yoga at the event online live yoga session at zoom was also arranged for the students mr manjeet sthapak with his team from the yoga institute raipur conducted the yoga sessionprof ram kumar kakani spoke about the importance of yoga and a healthy lifestyle and released a video on yoga at iim raipur prepared by the students after that the iim raipur fraternity performed all yoga asanas under the supervision of the yoga instructor which consisted of series of asanas mudra pranayam mantras and meditation the yoga session concluded with the sankalpa which is a promise to be committed to oneself and attain the highest form of selfdevelopment