Madhya Pradesh: 35 transgenders participate in online yoga session

On the occasion of the International Yoga Day, at least 35 members of the transgender community joined an online yoga session in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. They performed different yoga asanas and also prayed to God for the eradication of coronavirus from the world.

Indore (Madhya Pradesh):Nearly 35 members of the transgender community joined an online yoga session conducted from Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Sunday on the occasion of the International Day of Yoga, and prayed to God for the eradication of COVID-19 from the world.

Transgenders from places like Indore, Bhopal (in Madhya Pradesh), Pune, Nagpur (Maharashtra) and Bengaluru performed different yoga asanas while joining the session, city-based yoga trainer Krishnakant Mishra, who conducted the special session, told a news agency.

"The session lasted for about an hour and in the end, the participants prayed to God to eradicate coronavirus from the world," he said.

The participants adhered to the physical distancing guidelines while performing yoga, said Mishra, a clerk with the LIC, who in 2018 held a yoga session with 40 people at Hilsa, a mountainous region located at an altitude of 11,940 feet near Nepal-China border.

(PTI Report)