International Day of Yoga 2018 Video & Pictures: From Kangana Ranaut, Shilpa Shetty to Anupam Kher, These Celebs Urge Fans to Stay Fit

International Yoga Day is celebrated on June 21 every year. People across the globe praise the benefits of yoga and how it spreads healthy living. For some fitness inspiration, who better than our Bollywood celebs to go to? Several Bollywood celebs like Shilpa Shetty, Lara Dutta, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt and more vouch for the health benefits that yoga has to offer. As we celebrate World Yoga Day today, our favourite B-town celebs are promoting healthy living through yoga.

Yoga is nothing but harmonising our minds with our body. Yoga not only brings in several physical benefits but also balances our life spiritually. Here are 10 reasons why you should perform yoga. Yoga makes the body flexible and helps in burning fat resulting in weight loss. Not only Bollywood celebrities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also promotes the benefits of yoga and urges everyone to stay fit. Recently, he also accepted with Virat Kohli’s fitness challenge and shared his fitness mantra with the entire nation.

5 Celebs Who are Promoting Benefits of Yoga

1. Kangana Ranaut

The Manikarnika actress is seen twisting like a pretzel in this video. ‘The key to practice Yoga is patience and stillness’, reads the caption.

2. Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa is one of the fittest Bollywood actress and has been promoting yoga since a very long time. She even released a CD sharing tips and yoga asanas. In her Instagram post, Shilpa asks her fans to start slowly with Pranayama and shares the benefits of the asana. She also thanks Narendra Modi for inspiring the nation.

3. Milind Soman

The 52-year-old former model is a true fitness inspiration and is fitter than most Bollywood actors. Milind shares a post of him doing suryanamaskar making a small contribution towards target of 100,000 of a fitness platform. He also writes, “I feel stronger and more flexible with yoga and its never too late to start.”

4. Anupam Kher  

The veteran actor took to Twitter to share some amazing and inspiring photos of him doing yoga. He also shared a tweet about his students from his acting school practicing yoga. What an inspiration!

5. Nimrat Kaur

One of the niche actresses of B-town, on World Yoga Day, Nimrat writes, “Baby steps towards the vast ocean of the oldest form of well-being has been just the most rewarding decision of my recent past.

Initiated with a proposition by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, June 21 was proclaimed International Yoga Day by the United Nation on December 11, 2014. June 21 is also the longest day of the year as it is the summer solstice. The longest day of the year symbolises light, clarity, strength and forces of wisdom for many philosophic streams.

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