Yoga practitioners took a relaxing break to bend, twist and pose on Wednesday for the annual international event celebrating the practice.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined 50,000 students and other residents for a mass yoga session in pouring rain in the northern city of Lucknow to mark International Yoga Day. Similar yoga displays were organised in villages, towns and cities across India and in other countries.
The United Nations designated 21 June as International Yoga Day in 2014.
The practice began in ancient India, and Modi has described yoga as free health insurance and exhorted people to make it a part of their daily lives.
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Here is a collection of photos of men and women from around the world celebrating International Yoga Day at various locations.
In Myanmar, people performed exercises near the Shwedagon pagoda, the landmark Buddhist stupa in Yangon.
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