Meghalaya celebrates Yoga Day

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SHILLONG, June 21: Meghalaya Governor V Shanmuganthan today participated in a yoga demonstration at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Indian Culture at Ward Lake here. The armed forces, paramilitartary forces including the Air Force, Army, Assam Rifles, Border Security Force (BSF),North east Police Academy (NEPA),the state Police  held yoga sessions in their respective units where hundreds of their personnel took part.

The North eastern Hills University (NEHU) also held a yoga session.

Mewanwhile , the underprivileged children of  SPARK too observed the day with activeness and enthusiasm.

The day was observed in all the educatiol centres of SPARK with more than 200 children benefiting from it. The president of SPARK, Shima Modak introduced the children to the concept of yoga and explained them its all-round benefits.

She urged the children as well as the parents and community as a whole to include yoga in their daily lives as a means to get relief from all stress and other ailments to which they are prone to due to their life situations.