By Pallavi Priya

A fitness, stress-releasing and relaxation art, Yoga is India’s gift to the world of fitness. One of the most accessible ways to keep physical and mental health in balance, its daily practice helps to achieve flexibility, peace, and happiness in life. Being able to blend the soul and body together, this ancient art has the capacity to transform lives and change outlooks.

No wonder, many bureaucrats have made yoga a part of their daily routine. This group of officers include 2003-batch IPS officer Ratan Lal Dangi and 2008-batch IAS officer Sonal Goel, and both of them often post their yoga postures on social media.

Hence, on International Yoga Day, Indian Masterminds spoke to both the civil servants to know about the role yoga plays in their lives.

YOGA HELPED IN CHANGING IMAGE OF POLICE

Mr. Ratan Lal Dangi, who is now posted as Director, Police Academy, Raipur, started doing yoga three years ago, after the lockdown started. He has tried and achieved more than 800 poses since then, some of them improvised by himself.

He started yoga to give time to his body, but soon, started engaging the public with him by sharing his daily videos and pictures on social media. He said, “During the lockdown, everybody was stressed. We were getting lots of calls from school and college students in the control room and they were very anxious and restless. I thought, why not channelize their energy positively.”

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