Keep Calm and Be Fit: International Yoga Day Around the World

This year the International Day of Yoga is taking place around the world for the first time ever. The UN has declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day on December 11, 2014.

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Participants of a yoga session are seen in this aerial view of Rajpath on International Yoga Day, in New Delhi, India. June 21, 2015.

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Bollywood film actress, Shilpa Shetty Kundra performs yoga on stage in Bangalore on June 21, 2015.

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Students practice yoga in the lawns of their school ahead of International Day of Yoga, in Chennai, India. June 19, 2015.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to seize on yoga as India's signature cultural export have his Hindu nationalist allies swelling with pride, but are leaving minority religious groups feeling marginalized.

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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in the yoga session in the centre of New Delhi, India. June 21, 2015.

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Indians perform anti gravity aerial yoga in Ahmadabad, India.

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Medvedev's Girls, members of an Internet community supporting Dmitry Medvedev, practice yoga just outside the Moscow's Red Square.

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Participants perform yoga to mark the International Day of Yoga under the Eiffel tower in Paris, France. June 21, 2015.

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A child performs yoga at a hotel banquet hall to mark the International Yoga Day, in Changping District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China. June 21, 2015.

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Women participate in a yoga session to mark the International Day of Yoga, organised by the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in Srinagar. June 21, 2015.

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Participants attend the Yoga Fest to mark the International Day of Yoga at the Medeo skating rink at the altitude of some 1600 metres (5249 feet) above sea level in Almaty, Kazakhstan. June 21, 2015.

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Thousands of New Yorkers are practicing yoga in Times Square.

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Hundreds of school children take part in a yoga session as part of the International Day of Yoga at the amphitheatre lawns at the North Beach in Durban, South Africa, June 21, 2015.

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Members of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) take part in a mass yoga session in the Brigade Parade grounds in front of the Victoria Memorial (back) in Kolkata. June 21, 2015.

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A mass yoga session at Colon square in Madrid on June 21, 2015.

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Participants dressed in white perform yoga at an event to celebrate the International Yoga Day under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. June 21, 2015.

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Indians perform yoga at an event to celebrate the International Yoga Day in Bangalore, India. June 21, 2015.
Millions of yoga enthusiasts are bending their bodies in complex postures across India as they take part in a mass yoga program to mark the first International Yoga Day.