Mysuru set to create new yoga record

Mysuru: If all goes well it could soon be raining records in Mysuru.  The city, which is gearing up to break all records by holding a mass yoga demonstration involving 50,000 participants on June 21, set the mood on Monday by   forming a yoga chain with 8,381 students in the grounds of the Mysuru Palace in the hope of  entering the Guinness Book of World Records.

Students from 31 private  and 20 government schools made two attempts to set the record for the largest yoga chain by forming over 40 circles covering 6 kms while performing yoga.  Each attempt lasted for  two-and-a-half minutes and  involved four yoga postures, including two Veerabhadrasanas, Trikonasana, and Prasaritha Paadottanasana.

Ms Shylaja Srikanth, consultant for the  Guinness Book of World  Records, said the last record for the largest yoga chain was set by 3849 students of Kshatriya Vidyalaya in Tamil Nadu on November 14,  2014.  A class IX student, Rakshith, of a government high school in Bogadi and his 124 other friends from the same school, who participated in the event, said  they had practised yoga for the last 15 days and would participate on Wednesday too.

Another class IX student, H Khushi,  who entered the Guinness Book of World Records on June 12 this year  by performing the posture, “Black plank recline cluncher,”  15 times in a minute, is the brand ambassador for Mysuru’s Yoga Day.

35-minute session
Come Wednesday and Mysuru will begin its next attempt at a world record in the backdrop of the Chamundi Hills with  a 35 minute yoga session . The over 50,000 participants will begin with a prayer, and  do four yogic exercises, perform 23 yoga postures, four pranayamas and end with meditation and  oath taking for world peace.