Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘WHO M-Yoga’ App while addressing the occasion of the 7thInternational Day of Yoga.
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M-Yoga app will provide many videos of Yoga training and practice based on common Yoga protocol in many languages.
Terming this as a great example of fusion of modern technology and ancient science, the Prime Minister expressed the hope that M-Yoga app will help in spreading Yoga world over and will contribute to the efforts of ‘One World,One Health’.
The Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organization (WHO) had jointly undertaken a project in mid 2019, focussingon mobile-Yoga.
In order to achieve the above objectives, a memorandum of understanding was signed in July, 2019 between WHO and the Ministry of AYUSH. The m-Yoga project focused on four areas:
- Common Yoga Protocol for GeneralWellness;
- Yoga for mental health and resilience;
- Yoga for Adolescents; and
- Yoga for pre – Diabetics.
