UN has recognized 21st June as World Yoga Day through which programs including continuous training are given throughout the year to make yoga education a popular exercise. Gujarat has formed the State Yoga Board to spread yoga to the villages and people of the state. As part of this, the Yoga Board has trained 21,000 yoga trainers over the last year through yoga coaches. One of the board's yoga coaches from Vadodara, Dr. Sonali Malviya said that about 2,000 trainers currently trained by the board in Vadodara city and district are trying to make yoga a social and family habit and are taking it door to door. She has trained about 585 yoga trainers and was honored at the state-level program of World Yoga Day held in Gandhinagar in 2020. There are as many as 43 yoga coaches like her in Vadodara city and district.

Author-Shlok Talati