The International Day of Yoga on June 21 will mean a festival of yoga for Warsaw, which will stretch over three days. A yoga picnic on June 19 at Warsaw’s Pole Mokotowskie will include yoga sessions, lectures, panel discussions, concerts, culinary workshops and also special vegetarian and vegan Indian cuisine. This will be followed byyoga sessions involving schools on June 20 and a special inaugural session with Indianand Polish dignitaries on June 21.

                “Yoga is about an inner journey. Send a friendship request to yourself, try yoga!” said Ambassador Ajay Bisaria at a media interaction to unveil plans for the 2nd International Day of Yoga. Ambassador Bisaria said that the events for the 2nd IDY will be grander than those at the first, given the growing interest in yoga in Poland.

The first ever Yoga Day in 2015 involved almost every country in the world with more than 1.3 million people participating in common yoga sessions. In Poland, 13,000 people took part in public events; 8,000 of them congregated in Pole Mokotowskie.

                The main organisers of the yoga day in Poland are the Confederation of Yoga Schools (PSJ), the Indo-Polish Chamber of Commerce (IPCCI) and the Foundation of Polish Art of Living (AOL). The celebrations will be part of globalYoga festivities with the theme, “Yoga for Healthy Life”. In India, two special records were established which entered the Guinness Book of World Records – the largest (about 36,000) number of participants for a single yoga class, at India Gate in New Delhi and the largest number of nationalities (84) for such an event.

The Festival of Yoga in Warsaw will be supported by the Ambassadors of Yoga, long time practitioners and celebrities: Edyta Herbuś (dancer-actress), Małgorzata Pieczyńska (actress) and Natalia Przybysz (jass singer).  This galaxy ofyoga stars will be joined for this year’s edition by Agnieszka Cegielska (TV anchor), Paulina Holtz (TV actress) and Agnieszka Maciąg (fashion model). The media interaction also saw presentations by Adam Ramotowski, a certified yogateacher and president of the Confederation of Yoga Schools; Ms. Joanna Jedynak, certified yoga teacher; Ms. Justyna Wojciechowska, certified yoga teacher, and vice-president of the Association of Iyengar Yoga in Poland; Hubert Hryc, psychotherapist, author of the blog psychoterapeuta.blox.pl; and Marek Borchert - a 78-year-old practitioner of Yoga and guide in Warsaw.

Detailed information can be found on: dzien-jogi.pl

Here is a list of cities, which celebrate International Day of Yoga in Poland in 2016:

• Białystok
• Bydgoszcz
• Gdańsk
• Giżycko (szczegóły wkrótce)
• Jastrzębia Góra (szczegóły wkrótce)
• Jastrzębie Zdrój
• Kielce
• Kluczbork
• Komorów(k. Warszawy)
• Kraków w niedzielę 19.06oraz we wtorek 21.06 w szkołach jogi Sadhana i Mayura
• Lębork
• Lublin
• Łódź: FLASHMOBoraz obchody w Jogowni i Centrum Yogi
• Piotrków Trybunalski (szczegóły wkrótce)
• Poznań (szczegóły wkrótce)
• Piła
• Płock
• Radlin(woj. śląskie)
• Rzeszów
• Sulisław
• Szczecin
• Toruń
• Wrocław
• Zgierz
• Żory