The 193-member U.N. General Assembly on December 11th, approved that June 21 will be recognised as 'International Day of Yoga'.

Yoga, referred as “a living fossil”, was a mental and physical discipline, for everybody to share and benefit from, whose traces went back to around 2,000 BCE to Indus Valley civilization, Zed pointed out.
According to an estimate, about 21 million Americans, including many celebrities, now practice yoga. Long-term yoga users in the United States have reported musculo-skeletal and mental health improvements, as well as reduced symptoms of asthma in asthmatics.
There is evidence to suggest that regular yoga practice increases GABA (gama aminobutyric acid) levels in the brain, and yoga has been shown to improve mood and anxiety more than some other metabolically matched exercises, such as walking.
Overall, studies of the effects of yoga on heart disease suggest that yoga may reduce high blood pressure, improve symptoms of heart failure, enhance cardiac rehabilitation, and lower cardiovascular risk factors.
There has been an emergence of studies investigating yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer patients. Yoga is used for treatment of cancer patients to decrease depression, insomnia, pain, and fatigue and to increase anxiety control.
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The US National Institutes of Health says, yoga may help one to feel more relaxed, be more flexible, improve posture, breathe deeply, and get rid of stress.
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