{"id":8774,"date":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/15\/nationwide-health-for-humanity-yogathon-concludes\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","slug":"nationwide-health-for-humanity-yogathon-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/15\/nationwide-health-for-humanity-yogathon-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Health for Humanity Yogathon Concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hssus.org\/content\/view\/229\/1\/\">www.hssus.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, January 31, 2010: Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh USA, Inc. (HSS) concluded its Fourth Annual Health for Humanity Yogathon on January 31, 2010. During the two-week Yogathon, over 9,000 participants completed nearly 950,000 repetitions of the yoga routine known as the Sun Salutation, or Surya Namaskar.<\/p>\n<p>HSS launched the Health for Humanity Yogathon as an annual event in 2007 to create awareness about yoga and its advantages in achieving a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Participation has increased each year.<\/p>\n<p>HSS Yogathon National Coordinator Piyush Satapathy was pleasantly surprised after tallying this year&#8217;s numbers. &#8220;We substantially exceeded last year&#8217;s numbers by all measures: participants, repetitions, locations, and supporting organizations. To maintain the challenge, we will have to increase all our targets for next year&#8217;s Yogathon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hssus.org USA, January 31, 2010: Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh USA, Inc. (HSS) concluded its Fourth Annual Health for Humanity Yogathon,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}