PHOTOS: International Yoga Day has India out and stretching

Indian Naval Cadets perform yoga on the deck of INS Virat on International Yoga Day in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Large scale yoga sessions have people across India bending and twisting into various poses on International Day of Yoga. Here’s a look in pictures. (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

Updated on: Jun 21, 2017 3:16 PM IST

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Indian Naval Cadets perform yoga on the deck of INS Virat on International Yoga Day in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Large scale yoga sessions have people across India bending and twisting into various poses on International Day of Yoga. Here’s a look in pictures. (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

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People perform yoga on International Yoga Day at Lodhi garden in New Delhi. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

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Indian Sadhus or Hindu holy men perform yoga on International Yoga Day at Kamakhya temple in Assam. (Anupam Nath/AP)

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A man speaks on the phone while occupied with a yoga pose on an International Day of Yoga session at Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (ARIJIT SEN/HT Photo)

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(L-R) World's oldest Yoga teacher, 98-and-a-half years old Tao Porchon-Lynch, Swamy Vachananandaji and India's oldest Yoga teacher 98-year-old Amma Nannamal during Iternational Day of Yoga at Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (Arijit Sen/HT Photo)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in a yoga session at Ramabai Ambedkar ground in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. (Subhankar Chakraborty/HT Photo)

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A large crowd takes part in yoga exercises in Chandigarh, Punjab. (Keshav Singh/HT Photo)

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Students perform yoga on the occasion of International Yoga Day at Mira Road in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Pramod Thakur/HT Photo)

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A child strikes a pose of his own during a Yoga Day session at Dwarka Park in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)

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Indian Naval Cadets perform yoga on the deck of INS Virat on International Yoga Day in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

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Participants seen mid-pose at an International Yoga Day event inaugurated by Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at Central stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. (Vivek R Nair/HT Photo)

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A collective Yoga session seen underway Kanteerava stadium on International Yoga Day in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (ARIJIT SEN/HT Photo)

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BSF Personnel use yoga mats to protect themselves from rainfall during a group session on International yoga day, in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. (Nitin Kanotra/HT Photo)

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A group session on Yoga Day at Cyberhub in Gurgaon, Haryana. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)