• Participants of a yoga session are seen in this aerial view of Rajpath on International Yoga Day in New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in the yoga session in the centre of the capital on Sunday to showcase the country’s signature cultural export. Reuters / India’s Press Information Bureau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
    Participants of a yoga session are seen in this aerial view of Rajpath on International Yoga Day in New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in the yoga session in the centre of the capital on Sunday to showcase the country’s signature cultural export. Reuters / India’s Press Information Bureau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
  • Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, centre, led a mass yoga session along with other Indian yoga practitioners to mark International Yoga Day on Rajpath in New Delhi on June 21, 2015. Prakash Singh/AFP Photo
    Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, centre, led a mass yoga session along with other Indian yoga practitioners to mark International Yoga Day on Rajpath in New Delhi on June 21, 2015. Prakash Singh/AFP Photo
  • Participants perform yoga at an event to celebrate International Yoga Day under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much of the world on Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day. Kamil Zihnioglu / AP
    Participants perform yoga at an event to celebrate International Yoga Day under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much of the world on Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day. Kamil Zihnioglu / AP
  • Participants perform yoga to mark the International Day of Yoga under the Eiffel tower in Paris on Sunday. Benoit Tessier / Reuters
    Participants perform yoga to mark the International Day of Yoga under the Eiffel tower in Paris on Sunday. Benoit Tessier / Reuters
  • Inmates of Central Jail take part in a mass yoga session on the occasion of the first International Yoga Day in Bhopal, India. The United Nations has declared June 21 as the first International Day of Yoga after adopting a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
    Inmates of Central Jail take part in a mass yoga session on the occasion of the first International Yoga Day in Bhopal, India. The United Nations has declared June 21 as the first International Day of Yoga after adopting a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
  • Inmates of Central Jail take part in a mass yoga session on the occasion of the first International Yoga Day in Bhopal, India. The United Nations has declared June 21 as the first International Day of Yoga after adopting a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
    Inmates of Central Jail take part in a mass yoga session on the occasion of the first International Yoga Day in Bhopal, India. The United Nations has declared June 21 as the first International Day of Yoga after adopting a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
  • Yoga practitioners hold a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Yoga practitioners hold a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • Yoga practitioners hold a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Yoga practitioners hold a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • Instructors perform yoga poses for practitioners to watch during a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Instructors perform yoga poses for practitioners to watch during a mass session at an open field to mark the first ever International Day of Yoga at Geely University in Beijing. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • People participate in a yoga session to mark the International Day of Yoga, organised by the National Cadet Corps in Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters
    People participate in a yoga session to mark the International Day of Yoga, organised by the National Cadet Corps in Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters
  • A child performs yoga at a hotel banquet hall to mark International Yoga Day, in Changping District, on the outskirts of Beijing. Andy Wong / AP
    A child performs yoga at a hotel banquet hall to mark International Yoga Day, in Changping District, on the outskirts of Beijing. Andy Wong / AP
  • Bollywood film actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra performs yoga on stage during International Day of Yoga in Bangalore on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the first International Yoga Day as a “new era of peace”, moments before he surprised thousands in New Delhi by taking to a mat himself to celebrate the ancient Indian practice. Manjunath Kiran / AFP
    Bollywood film actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra performs yoga on stage during International Day of Yoga in Bangalore on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the first International Yoga Day as a “new era of peace”, moments before he surprised thousands in New Delhi by taking to a mat himself to celebrate the ancient Indian practice. Manjunath Kiran / AFP

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Twist, bend, turn: the world celebrates International Yoga Day - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

June 21, 2015

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The United Nations has declared June 21 as the first International Day of Yoga after adopting a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

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