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Meghalaya, the northeast state of India, is planning to explore the potential of Ayush treatment in the state to promote tourism. It was informed by the Health and Family Welfare Minister Alexander Laloo Hek, after his recent visit to Kerala, where he has discussed with the Kerala government the prospects of Ayush in promotion of tourism, “Meghalaya government would like to take up Ayush treatment in a big way like Kerala and the idea is to attract more tourists to the state,” said Hek. The state envisages promoting Ayush by way of developing hospitals and clinics of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, ... Read more

Uttarakhand has immense possibilities in yoga and adventure tourism activities, said Union Minister of State for tourism, K J Alphons. “Trekking, river rafting, water sports, paragliding, skiing and bungy jumping are some of the activities with immense potential,” he said while speaking on the sidelines of the Destination Uttarakhand Investors Summit-2018. The minister also said that developing adventure sports activities and yoga in the state will provide employment to the locals. Alphons urged the investors to come forward to invest in the adventure tourism sector and asked the State Government to stand motivated to develop the sector appropriately. “Tourism sector has generated ... Read more

Dubai is all ready to host a massive yoga festival at the Dubai Internet City Amphitheatre from November 15-17, 2018. The event comes with a jam-packed schedule of free-to-attend yoga sessions, meditation circles and yoga-related activities for fans of all ages. The festival begins on Thursday evening in the meditation tent, and continues with two full days of sessions led by some of Dubai’s best-known yoga and meditation practitioners along with visiting guest teachers. Healthy food and exciting retail spaces round out this holistic weekend festival. “Yogafest is about connecting you to nature, to yourself and to like minded people in ... Read more

There are hundreds and thousands of yoga instructors ans practitioners in the country and, it is difficult to identify the certified instructors. It is to help people identify the certified instructors that the AYUSH ministry has come up with a mobile-based app to help users locate certified yoga instructors and institutes around them. The app, commissioned by the ministry, regulates alternative systems of medicine, including yoga. The app lists yoga instructors and institutes that have been validated by experts from the Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy (CCRYN) under the ministry. Instructors and institutes interested in getting certified will ... Read more

Yoga is India’s greatest gift to the world, said Suman Billa, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Govt of India. Suman Billa was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the India Tourism Mart in New Delhi. “Give us 15 days, we will make you 5 years younger,” he said while talking about the importance of yoga and the different yoga practices followed in the country. The Tourism Ministry is organising the India Tourism Mart (ITM) from 16th to 18th September, 2018 in partnership with the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hospitality (FAITH) and with the support of State /UT ... Read more

Photo Credits: gotnewswire India and the Netherlands could join hands for promoting medical tourism in both countries. It was suggested by Shirpad Yesso Nayik, Union minister of state for Ayush, while talking in a seminar titled ‘India-Netherlands Collaboration in Healthcare, including Ayurveda, at Leiden. “India is the world’s largest producer of generic medicine and there is tremendous potential for medical value travel to India for conventional and alternative medical treatments like Ayurveda,” said the minister. Alternative medical streams in India, named Ayush, denotes to medical treatments other than allopathic such as Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy. Naik reiterated the ... Read more

India plans to have road shows to emphasis alternate therapies like Yoga and Ayurveda to attract more tourists form the US. The tourists from US have been one of the largest contributors of income in the tourism industry, UK being the second foreign contributor.  Recently, in the leadership of the tourism minister Alphons Kannanthanam, a road show under the theme ‘Incredible India’ has conducted in New York and Chicago. In 2017 India has received 1.4 million US tourists, which was 6 per cent more than that of a year ago and around 25 per cent more from 2014. Meanwhile, UK ... Read more

The state government has expedited the steps to envisage Kerala as the Yoga Capital of India. The ministry has decided to allot fifteen acres of land in Karinthalam village of Kasargod as lease to construct Yoga and Naturopathy Post-graduate Institute. The proposed institute will have facility to accommodate 100 patients. Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy will oversee the construction.

സംസ്ഥാനത്തെ യോഗാ കേന്ദ്രമാക്കാനുള്ള നടപടികള്‍ സംസ്ഥാന സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ഊര്‍ജിതമാക്കി. കാസര്‍കോട്ട് യോഗ ആന്റ് നാച്വറോപ്പതി പോസ്റ്റ് ഗ്രാജ്വേറ്റ് ഇന്‍സ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ട് സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്നതിന് കരിന്തളം വില്ലേജില്‍ പതിനഞ്ച് ഏക്കര്‍ ഭൂമി പാട്ടത്തിന്അനുവദിക്കാന്‍ മന്ത്രിസഭാ യോഗം തീരുമാനിച്ചു. നൂറ് കിടക്കകളുള്ള ആശുപത്രി ഉള്‍പ്പടുന്നതാണ് നിര്‍ദ്ദിഷ്ട ഇന്‍സ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ട്. സെന്‍ട്രല്‍ കൗണ്‍സില്‍ ഫോര്‍ റിസേര്‍ച്ച് ഇന്‍ യോഗ ആന്റ് നാച്വറോപ്പതിയാണ് ഇന്‍സ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ട് സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്നത്.

It’s from her father that Salila Sukumaran started taking the basic lessons of yoga. Later, she started taking the lessons as part of her corporate management training while she was taking her hotel management training in Delhi. “Yoga came to my life, uninvited. But, once I started practicing yoga in a consistent way, it made me feel strong internally and physically that I knew there’s something amazing about yoga that I had tapped into without knowing that I was tapping into it,” said Salila while she was touring Kerala during the Yoga Ambassadors Tour 2018. Yoga Ambassadors Tour was an ... Read more

Elissa Chrisson from Australia, says yoga has changed her life in a very positive way. Elissa was the star performer during the Yoga Ambassadors Tour, organized by ATTOI. Elissa was one of the delegates touring Kerala with the Yoga Ambassadors Tour. The event was organized in association with the Ministry of AYUSH and Kerala Tourism. The event, aimed to propagate Kerala as a global destination, is taking around 60-plus Yoga professionals from across the world to different destinations in Kerala to experience yoga and learn more about yoga. The 10-day educational tour concluded on International Yoga Day  June 21. The ... Read more

The first edition of Yoga Ambassadors Tour conducted in Kerala, which started on 14th June at Kovalam, has concluded in Kochi on 21st June 2018 – the International Yoga Day. The tour ended proclaiming Kerala to be the Yoga destination in the coming days. Association of Tourism Trade Organizations, India (ATTOI), famed for their innovative concepts in tourism industry, was the organizers of the programme. The event was conducted in association with Ministry of Ayush, Government of India and Kerala Tourism. The closing day kick stared with a mass yoga drill where 56 yoga ambassadors along with people from the ... Read more

It was a distinctive experience for the participants and spectators, when people from 23 different countries performed ‘yoga asanas’ in harmony. Yoga experts from 23 different countries assembled to perform yoga in Kochi as part of the Yoga Ambassadors Tour, organized by Association of Tourism Trade Organizations India (ATTOI), in association with Kerala Tourism and Ayush Minstry. Apart from the foreign delegates, people from different parts of the state also participated in the mass yoga demonstration.

സംസ്ഥാനത്ത് അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര നിലവാരമുള്ള യോഗ നാച്ചുറോപ്പതി സെന്റര്‍ ആരംഭിക്കാന്‍ നടപടി സ്വീകരിച്ചു വരികയാണെന്ന് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പിണറായി വിജയൻ പറഞ്ഞു. തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത് യോഗ ദിനാചരണത്തിന്റെ സംസ്ഥാനതല ഉദ്ഘാടനം നിർവഹിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി. യോഗ ഒരു മതാചാരമല്ലെന്നും മതാചാരമെന്ന നിലയില്‍ യോഗയെ ചിലര്‍ ഹൈജാക്ക് ചെയ്യാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്നും അത് പാടില്ലെന്നും മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പറഞ്ഞു. യോഗ ഒരു വ്യായാമമുറയാണ് ജാതിമതഭേതമന്യേ എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും അത് പരിശീലിക്കാവുന്നതാണ്.ചില സൂക്തങ്ങളൊക്കെ ചൊല്ലി യോഗയെ ഹൈജാക്ക് ചെയ്യാറുണ്ട് എന്നാല്‍ സൂക്തങ്ങള്‍ ഉണ്ടാവുന്നതിന് മുന്നെ യോഗ ഉണ്ടായിട്ടുണ്ടെന്ന് ഇക്കൂട്ടര്‍ മനസ്സിലാക്കണം.. യോഗ ഒരു പ്രത്യേക മതത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തമാണെന്ന് സ്ഥാപിക്കാനാണ് ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള പ്രചാരണങ്ങള്‍ കൊണ്ടുദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത്. ഇത് യോഗയുടെ ജനപ്രീതി കുറയ്ക്കുന്ന പ്രവണതയാണ്. കുപ്രചരണങ്ങളുടെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തില്‍ യോഗയോട് ആരും മുഖം തിരിക്കുന്നത് ശരിയല്ല. സ്വതന്ത്രവും മതേതരവുമായ മനസോടുകൂടിയാണ് യോഗ പരിശീലിക്കേണ്ടതെന്നും മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പിണറായി വിജയന്‍ പറഞ്ഞു. വികസിത രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ പോലും യോഗയില്‍ വലിയ താത്പര്യമാണ് കാണിക്കുന്നത്. ഇന്ന് വ്യാപകമായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ജീവിത ശൈലീരോഗങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് യോഗ ഫലപ്രദമായ പരിഹാരമാണ്. ആരോഗ്യകരമായി ... Read more

 “Government has been taking necessary steps to start a Yoga naturopathy center with international standards”, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He was inaugurating the event organised by the state government in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, to observe International Yoga Day “Yoga is a form of exercise that helps in keeping several diseases away. It does not belong to any religion. There were efforts underway to hijack Yoga and colour it with religious connotations.  Such efforts should be discouraged”, he added.