It is stated that as the NASDAQ was zooming up 69 points on microsecond transactions at 11 a.m. on Monday, outside in front of the stock exchange building on Times Square, peace and calm wafted among the thousands of yoga enthusiasts celebrating the International Yoga Day a day early to coincide with the Summer Solstice.
Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Alliance, began the celebrations at 5 am by leading a session of yoga for the early birds. Eight sessions were scheduled through the day ending at 8:30 pm and the sessions are to be led by yoga teachers who draw on traditions as diverse as Iyengar, Bikram and Tibetan Buddhist over 30 yoga studios have participated in the celebrations.
The event was cosponsored by the Indian consulate, which is organizing events Thursday at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and Newark Liberty Airport as well as the consulate and on Saturday as large yoga celebration was held at in front of the city landmark Unisphere, a 37 meter stainless steel globe, at the Queens Meadow Park.
