AYUSH Ministry launches app to help people locate yoga centres and instructors

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the International Yoga Day on June 21, the AYUSH Ministry has launched a mobile application to enable people locate yoga events and centres providing training.

The users will also be able to look for certified yoga instructors, a senior AYUSH Ministry official said.

According to him, ‘yoga locator’- a map-based location app – will also enable yoga instructors to register themselves and reach out to a maximum number of people.

“People want to know where they can go for yoga training or to pursue a yoga course. This app ‘yoga locator’ will help them locate yoga centres as well as yoga instructors within the preferred radius of their vicinity. Their aim is to encourage and help more and more people to adopt yoga,” the official said.

He said it will be a permanent app, which will give information about yoga activities happening in their vicinity throughout the year. (AGENCIES)