Mysuru may be made yoga district
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Bengaluru: The health department is working on a proposal to make Mysuru a yoga district.
In 2024, a visit by Ayush ministry officials revealed that Mysuru was the closest to having the mandated 50% of households practising yoga to be named yoga district.
Minister of health and family welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao confirmed Tuesday that the district has a significant number of people practising yoga and sees scores of visitors every year learning to practise and teach it.
Ayush commissioner Ayush Ratan Singh told TOI that 22 of 326 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (health and wellness centres) are located in Mysuru. With at least one instructor in every centre, there is a culture of daily practice among locals.
Besides this, he said, there is a private university, naturopathy colleges and hospitals, and a panchakarma centre that add to the ecosystem.
"The affinity for yoga in Mysuru was observed by the Ayush ministry in 2024 during their visit to the district. They believed it was a fit case for being a yoga district with close to 50% of homes practising yoga. Mysuru also has a tradition of yoga, historically," Singh added.
He said the proposal has been added in the Karnataka govt's annual action plan for National Ayush Mission and is at the state-level approval stage.
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Lakshminarayana Shenoy, assistant director of the state ayurvedic research centre, said Gokulam, Yadavagiri and Jayalakshmipuram are prominent pockets of yoga practice. "About 20,000 foreign tourists come in annually to learn yoga in a 3-km radius of the three locations, and another 8,000 are visiting to become yoga trainers. The district has 600 yoga schools," he added.
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