Corporate companies having a business interest in the health sector did not like to promote yoga, according to K. Krishna Sharma, chairman, Department of Human Consciousness and Yogic Sciences, Mangalore University.
Speaking at a workshop on ‘yoga therapy for stress disorders’ at the university on Friday, he said that the practice of yoga helped people maintain good health.
Corporate companies were not interested in promoting yoga fearing that it would bring down their business in the health sector.
He added that yoga should be practised regularly to maintain good health.
Vijayakumar Gogi, director, State Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Sidda and Homeopathy, said that 21 countries agreed that June 21 would be the International Day for Yoga and this showed the global acceptance of yoga.
He said that urbanisation had increased stress and industrialisation had added to pollution.
