Yoga practitioners at the historic Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria Photo courtesy of India embassy.
The main event is scheduled to begin at 7 am and is expected to bring together diplomats, officials and yoga practitioners for a session based on the Common Yoga Protocol.
The celebrations began on 22 May with a yoga event attended by more than 300 people at El Nasr Sporting Club in Cairo, launched by Indian Ambassador to Egypt Shri Suresh K. Reddy.
The Yoga Caricature competition exhibition showed at India House (photo by Reham El-Adawi).
Since then, the embassy has held yoga sessions and workshops in several cities, including Ismailia and Alexandria, in cooperation with local authorities and Egypt's Ministry of Youth and Sports.
A public event was held on 5 June at the Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria, where participants took part in guided yoga exercises overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Another session for members of the diplomatic community was organized in Cairo on 4 June, while media representatives attended a separate event at India House in Zamalek on 10 June.
Indian dances performed on the sidelines of the International Yoga Day celebrations
The embassy has also organized a yoga caricature competition in cooperation with the Egyptian Society of Caricature. According to the embassy, the contest received 210 entries from 33 countries, with the winning works displayed at India House.
Additional events are scheduled at Al Ahly Club's Sheikh Zayed branch on 13 June and at the Misr Public Library's Zawia branch on 15 June.
TV anchor Ramy Radwan attends a special yoga session for media representatives
Observed annually on 21 June, the International Day of Yoga was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014 following a proposal by India. Participation in the annual event has grown steadily in Egypt, attracting government institutions, diplomats, cultural organizations and yoga enthusiasts.
India and Egypt have increasingly used cultural exchanges to strengthen bilateral relations in recent years, with yoga emerging as one of the platforms for people-to-people engagement between the two countries.
Wife of Indian ambassador Suresh K. Reddy, artist Ibrahim Abla with journalists and media figures at a special yoga session.
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