International Yoga Day 2025: International Yoga Day 2025 falls on June 21, which celebrates the benefits and practice of yoga. In today’s fast-paced and often chaotic world, mental strength and emotional balance have become essential components of overall well-being. Amid rising stress levels and increasing mental health challenges, ancient practices like yoga are gaining renewed relevance. More than just a physical workout, yoga offers a profound system of mind-body integration that cultivates resilience, clarity and inner peace. With its combination of mindful movement, breath control and meditative focus, yoga serves as a powerful tool to strengthen the mind and soothe emotional turbulence, allowing individuals to navigate life’s pressures with greater ease.
The regular practice of yoga helps develop psychological endurance and emotional intelligence by regulating the nervous system and fostering mindfulness. It encourages self-awareness and present-moment focus, which are crucial for processing emotions and reducing mental clutter. In conversation with The Daily Jagran, Dr. Yogrishi Vishvketu – Global Yoga Educator, Author and Founder of the Akhanda Yoga Institute, shares how yoga offers a sanctuary where individuals can reconnect with themselves and build an inner reservoir of calm and strength.
Neuroscience now confirms what Yogis discovered centuries ago. Practices like Pranayama (breath regulation), mantra repetition, and meditation activate the vagus nerve and shift the body from stress mode to a state of calm and rest. This process builds emotional regulation and strengthens the brain’s ability to pause and respond rather than react.
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Over time, such practices reshape the neural pathways in the brain, reducing the grip of fear and anxiety. People learn to stay calm and present, even amid uncertainty.
Trauma isn’t just a memory in the mind—it’s stored in the body. Our fascia, the connective tissue network, holds emotional imprints, especially from experiences that were overwhelming or unprocessed. Gentle Asana, combined with breath awareness, creates the safety and space needed to release trauma layer by layer, without force or retraumatisation.”
As Dr. Yogrishi teaches, “Healing is not about escape—it is about presence.” This embodied presence brings unconscious patterns into the light, allowing for deep emotional resolution and resilience.
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Through structured, gradual practice, Yoga expands the nervous system’s capacity to hold intensity, whether emotional, physical, or spiritual. By practising breath holds, challenging postures, or extended stillness, students learn to stay in the body even when discomfort arises.
Dr. Yogrishi Vishvketu mentions, “This builds what modern psychology calls “window of tolerance”—our ability to handle stress and stay balanced. In Yoga, this is the cultivation of Sthirta (steadiness).”
Every conscious step into the unknown, whether it’s a new posture, a deeper breath, or entering silence, is a calculated risk. These micro-challenges train the mind and body to face uncertainty not with fear, but with curiosity and confidence. This creates a powerful shift: we begin to trust our inner ground.
At the heart of Dr. Yogrishi’s teachings is Chikitsa—the Yogic science of self-healing. Rather than giving external treatment, Yoga empowers the individual to perceive, witness, and consciously transform their inner landscape. Through tools like Mantra, Pranayama, Yagya (fire rituals), and Yogic philosophy, students begin to access healing not as a destination—but a daily practice of presence.
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Yoga offers more than temporary relief. It builds inner strength, one breath at a time. It trains us not just to survive life’s changes, but to walk through them with clarity, courage, and grace.
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