MUMBAI: 21 June is the day when the whole world recognizes the significance of yoga. The Indian art form is highly celebrated and finally the world is acknowledging its significance.

On the occasion of International Yoga Day, TellyChakkar brings to you your favourite celebrities who shared their opinions and views on yoga. Read on-

Devoleena Bhattacharjee -The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ – steady effort in the direction you want to go. Yoga is must to stay fit.

Pearl V Puri- Yoga means addition, addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul. And I feel we all must trust and enjoy it and stay fit.

Tejasswi Prakash - A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves and stay fit. Yoga brings a lot of fresh energy.

Kunal Jaisingh - True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life. Yoga makes us fit and capable to fight with any challenges and help us to stay fit and young.

Helly Shah - Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. Yoga is must and I feel people of every age group should do it.

Adnan Khan - Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. It helps us to remain healthy throughout the year.

Shakti Arora - I am a self-confessed Yoga freak and I think it is very important in our daily life. Yoga didn’t just help me with my body but it also made me fitter from inside. It helps me focus more on my work and deliver better. Yoga has changed my life as the daily practice helps me become healthier, and also protects me control my heart rate.

Mohit Malik - My guru, Atul Mongia, is the one who inspired me to take up yoga. He has always helped me with my acting and in general, and insisted that I start meditating. I feel acting and practicing yoga go together like hand and glove. Yoga makes your body so flexible which is necessary for an actor than making muscles that only gives you a good body, temporarily. I have been practicing it for almost two years now and I practice aasans for an hour at home or on set.

Pooja Banerjee - I have been practicing yoga for a while now and I try doing it on a regular basis. My day starts with yoga and ends with it as well. If I don’t have time, I make sure to do Pranayam at least. With yoga I’m not just breathing but living my life in a better way, since it makes me a calmer person and enables to relieve stress from every-day life.

I believe everyone should practice yoga as it’s good for our health and overall helps to stay fit- mentally and physically. It’s sad that yoga had its origin in India, but we Indians do not give it the importance that is due. We are so busy in making money that we don’t focus on physical and mental fitness. On the other hand, I have seen a lot of change in the last two years, that our countrymen are trying to make and I’m happy with the change that has happened.

I was never a yoga person, but being a part of a profession where there is loads of hard work and need to perform under considerable pressure, made me realise that yoga is the only thing which can give me solace. Yoga is one of the best things that I decided to make a part of my daily routine.

Bijay Anand - Yoga, when practiced in its true essence of bringing awareness into your life, awakens you to the path you need to follow to find absolute bliss, peace, joy and divinity. Yoga and meditation are powerful tools to awaken our Kundalini and to see the world around us in a different and an enlightened light. What I teach, Kundalini Yoga, is a safe and simple practice that realigns you to the cosmic pulse and vibration. You were born beautiful and meant to live a beautiful life. Kundalini yoga leads you towards that divine serenity.

After yoga happened to me I realised that I had been wandering through my life in a daze without any direction or awareness. I used to smoke three packets of cigarettes a day, drink, experiment with drugs, gamble and had intermittent bouts of depression. Yoga brought me back to life. It woke me up to the miracles and magic that are possible in this life and helped me rid myself of all my bad habits.

I lost most of my money during the financial crash of 2006. I also had very high cholesterol levels and arthritis. When the best orthopaedic surgeon told me that I could never run, play badminton or do yoga for the rest of my life, that is when I said ENOUGH and took charge of my life again. Now I don’t have cholesterol, arthritis and I have lost all my fat.

Akanksha Puri - I am a super active person and my mind has 1000 thoughts at the same time. Yoga is very important for me as it helps me to relax my mind and releases my stress. It enables me to do more things in a single day which I had never thought was possible.

After doing yoga, I became more calm and relaxed. Overthinking and taking stress for unnecessary things has been a consistent problem for me. Yoga helps me to use my energies at right places and get the correct results.

A few years ago, I met with a car accident where I fractured my ribs. I was off work and was mentally and physically affected, after my recovery I started doing yoga! It helped me to get back my strength and focus in life.

Abeer Soofi - Yoga redefines peace and it shows you a different perspective about life. When I started doing yoga, I realized how beautiful our life is and what all we need to achieve in life. Yoga is very important and every-one of us should practice it regularly. We should dedicate a few minutes from our daily routine to yoga. It makes us more patient.

I used to do yoga with my brother every day since I was a kid. Our father taught us yoga. I still remember our childhood days, there was a pole in our courtyard and we used to practice yoga poses on it. At present I am also enacting the role of Sai Baba, wherein yoga helps me to maintain a calm look and a serene smile on my face. It’s a gift from my father and due to yoga, I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. We even do yoga on the sets of Mere Sai whenever we get free time as the set is located on the outskirts of Mumbai and is very scenic and peaceful.

I began practicing yoga when I started going to school and my father taught me a lot as well. My mother also motivated me to do yoga. I feel all parents should motivate their children to do yoga. So, in a way my father inspired me to do yoga which has helped me immensely in living a healthy lifestyle.

Shweta Rohira - It’s a day that should be celebrated every day. One should practice it and make it a part of a healthy lifestyle. In today's world, it is important to have something which keeps you in touch with your body.

Yoga means to live in the now. Yoga helps you relax and refreshes you, something that we really need in our day.

Yoga was one of our subjects in school so that’s how I was introduced to it. My mom has always taught me to be centered and balanced and yoga emphasises that. It helps in making you whole and complete.

I prefer yoga to everything else as I am in love with yoga and it has always helped me mentally, emotionally and physically.

Yoga makes your mind fresh. Your body becomes flexible and it gives you a natural glow that I don’t need to do anything else. It keeps you calm and composed and that’s exactly what I needed in my life.

Shubhnagi Atrey - There are two kinds of people one is a Gym Person and other is a Yoga Person, I am any day a yoga person. I make sure I take out time from my schedule for yoga every day. It calms me and gives peace. Surya Namaskar is one of my favourite!