GoI in collaboration with WHO has developed M-Yoga Mobile App
New Delhi :The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi launched
‘WHO M-Yoga’ App
while addressing on the occasion of the 7thInternational Day of Yoga. M-Yoga app will provide many videos of Yoga training and practice based on common Yoga
protocol in many languages. Terming this as a great example of fusion of modern
technology and ancient science, the Prime Minister expressed the hope that
M-Yoga app will help in spreading Yoga world over and will contribute to the
efforts of ‘One World,One Health’.
The Prime Minister said:
“When India proposed the International Day of Yoga in the
United Nations, the spirit behind it was to make this Yoga science accessible
to the entire world. Today, India has taken another important step in this
direction along with the United Nations and WHO.
Now the world is going to get the power of the m-Yoga app. In
this app, many videos of Yoga training will be available in different languages
of the world based on the common Yogaprotocol. It is also a great example of
the fusion of modern technology and ancient science. I am sure the m-Yoga app
will play a big role in expanding Yoga across the globe and making the efforts
of One World, One Health a success.”
This mobile app will be immensely helpful in the promotion of Yoga and wellness
among people around the world, especially during the ongoing pandemic. It will
play an instrumental role in re-rehabilitation of the
health of the Covid patients who have recovered from
Covid-19, the Prime Minister said.
Background:
The
Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health
Organization (WHO) had jointly undertaken a project in mid 2019, focussingon mobile-Yoga. It envisaged the concept
of the ‘Be Healthy, Be Mobile’ (BHBM) under the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030. Be Healthy, Be
Mobile (BHBM) initiative is a global partnership led by WHO which supports the
scale up of mobile health (m-Health) technology within the scope of the
National Health system to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
In order to achieve the above objectives, a memorandum
of understanding was signed in July, 2019 between WHO and the
Ministry of AYUSH. The m-Yoga project focused on
four areas:
(1)
Common Yoga Protocol for GeneralWellness;
(2) Yoga
for mental health and resilience;
(3)
Yoga for Adolescents; and
(4) Yoga
for pre - Diabetics.
Building upon this, a requisite handbook and mobile applications were
to be developed by Morarji Desai National Institute of
Yoga (MDNIY) in consultation with the WHO technology partners. The work
on the handbook is in the final stages and the currently launched app is
available in two of the six official languages of the
UN i.e English and Hindi. In this work, Morarji Desai National Institute of
Yoga (MDNIY) played a pivotal role to facilitate preparation of Common Yoga
Protocol for General Wellness of various duration(45 minutes, 20 minutes and 10
minutes), Common Yoga Protocol booklets, video shoots,
their translations in 6 major UN languages and designs of
the booklets under the directives of Ministry of AYUSH, GOI.
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