{"id":9897,"date":"2011-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/02\/17\/a-successful-yogathon-promotes-surya-namaskar-in-america\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"a-successful-yogathon-promotes-surya-namaskar-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/02\/17\/a-successful-yogathon-promotes-surya-namaskar-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A Successful Yogathon Promotes Surya Namaskar In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011: Surya Namaskar (Sun salutation), practised in India for years, has now found a whole lot of takers in the US, with several cities endorsing this ancient Indian exercise for its health benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 people participated in the public Surya Namaskar exercises held in 225 cities from 40 States in January, according to Hindu Swyamsevak Sangha (HSS), which organizes the annual &#8216;Health for Humanity Yogathon&#8217;. Surya Namaskar yoga routine integrates simple postures of well-balanced movements in ten steps with an easy breathing technique to provide immense health benefits for everyone from beginners to yoga enthusiasts, HSS said.<\/p>\n<p>Mayors of Tampa in Florida, Milpitas (California), Cupertino (California), Normal (Illinois) and Bloomington (Illinois) declared &#8216;Health for Humanity&#8217; also known as Surya Namaskar Yajna (SNY) day and encouraged their residents to participate in the locally held Yogathons.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/surya-namaskar-gaining-popularity-in-us\/748818\/'>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, February 11, 2011: Surya Namaskar (Sun salutation), practised in India for years, has now found a whole lot of,&#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-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","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=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}