International Yoga Day: Celebrations across the world

Nepalese yoga practitioners gather in the rain to take part in a yoga session on International Yoga Day in Kathmandu on June 21, 2017. Millions across the globe celebrated the traditional practice of yoga on June 21.

Malaysian yoga practitioners perform exercises during an event to mark International Yoga Day at the Sultan Abdul Samad building in Kuala Lumpur on June 21, 2017.

A boy takes part in a yoga session at the amphitheatre lawns at North Beach on June 18, 2017 in Durban, South Africa, ahead of the International Day of Yoga on June 21.

An international day for yoga was declared unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 11 December 2014.

Thousands of yogis from around the world travel to Times Square every year to celebrate the Summer Solstice with free yoga classes all day long.

Yoga enthusiasts practice yoga in Abu Dhabi ahead of International Yoga Day.

Yoga lovers come together to celebrate yoga at the Great Wall of China.

Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna leads the crowd while doing yoga at Sylvan Theater, National Mall in Washington, DC.

Over 8,000 school students form a yoga chain at Mysore Palace, Karnataka to create a Guinness World Record for 'Longest Yoga Chain'.

Yogis gather in front of Trafalgar Square, London a day ahead of Yoga Day on June 21.