Yesterday (June 21) was the second annual International Day of Yoga. In case you weren’t familiar with the story, back in 2013, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga at the United Nations. Last year was the first year the day was observed where 160 countries took part in organizing official yoga sessions.

This year, yoga enthusiasts in 173 countries were back to take part and that included your favourite Bollywood stars. First up, let’s take a look at Mr. Modi to see where he celebrated. He was in Chandigarth, Punjab where he joined thousands for a massive demonstration. “We are disconnected from ourselves in today’s times. Yoga helps us reconnect with ourselves,” he told the participants.

From top left: Yoga in Delhi, Sydney Opera House, PM Modi in Chandigarth, yoga at Sydney Harbour Bridge

I was scrolling through social media and thought it was pretty cool to see images shared by people all over the world. Like literally people were at Times Square in NYC doing yoga to the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia–you even saw people performing yoga on the river Seine in Paris!

Bollywood apparently loves yoga too. Check out some of the photos shared by the celebs.

Akshay and Twinkle with friends showing off their yoga poses while Malaika Arora Khan shows off her moves

Akshay Kumar and wife Twinkle Khanna are on holidays in Europe but still made time out to take part. Malaika Arora Khan, Shilpa Shetty, and Bipasha Basu are known for being yoga enthusiasts so it was no surprise to see their social media feeds full of photos demonstrating their yoga moves. Mallika Sherawat and Neha Dhupia also took part, among other celebs.

Bipasha Basu loves yoga so much that she not only took part in the official yoga day in Bengaluru, but she came home and practiced yoga with hubby Karan Singh Grover while Shilpa Shetty posted several photos with her best yoga tips.

Check out this video I found.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BG6OwXFpl13/

Hmm I’m not that into yoga. I personally love going for bike rides or for a run but maybe I should give yoga a shot. I mean if you look at the celebs taking part in Yoga Day, they are some of the most in shape celebs out there. Look at Shilpa Shetty—her body is so toned, it’s crazy! I know in past interviews she has said the secret to her toned body is yoga so maybe it’s worth a shot….

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