Sun Salutation: Surya Namaskar

     Surya namaskar is the gift given by Indians to the world. Now a day it is becoming more and more popular around the world. It is highly being adopted by foreigners as well as youth of India. One of the examples is the “Maha Surya namaskar” program organized in Sangli on 13^th February 2011.

     Every year 13 Feb. is celebrated as “International Sun Salutation day”. On the occasion of this, Sangli Shikshan Sanstha and Krida Bharati, Sangli (two famous educational and sports institutes in Sangli) arranged the program. Daily Sakal was the media partner. Thousands of people had responded to this program.

     There are many people in Sangli who encourage to the daily exercise by creating their “Sun salutation group”.  Some of them are as follows;

1. Dr. Harshala Patwardhan : She created her fitness group and proposed to do 11,111 sun salutations in the time from Makar Sankranti to Rath saptami.


2. G. P. Paranjape (Famous doctor in Haripur): He published a book on Sun salutation and its benefits. He always suggests his patients to do this exercise.


3. Raju Bawadekar : He has small group which performs Sun salutation daily in Amrai (oldest  garden in Sangli)

     Apart from above, Sangli has wider history for doing such programs. King of Miraj sansthan Balasaheb Patwardhan gave huge support to Sun salutation. He personally did it for 50 years.

Sun salutation has scientifically proved for good health. Here are the steps to perform Sun salutation;

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