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Addressing the gathering, Shri and other locations near “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam,"
V. L. Kantha Rao encouraged water bodies. These events symbolising a shared
participants to embrace yoga demonstrated how commitment to environmental
as a lifelong habit rather than community participation conservation and sustainable
a one-day observance. He continues to strengthen the living.
noted that incorporating yoga Namami Gange movement by
into daily life contributes not fostering awareness, collective
only to individual health but responsibility and
also to the creation of a environmental stewardship.
healthier and more resilient Following the Common Yoga
society. Protocol, participants
The celebrations extended far performed yoga asanas and
beyond the national capital. breathing exercises,
Across the Ganga basin, reafrming yoga's role in
District Ganga Committees nurturing a balanced and
(DGCs), educational healthy lifestyle. The
institutions and local celebrations also included a
communities organised yoga plantation drive under the
sessions at ghats, riverfronts nationwide campaign
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