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Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU June 15: Directorate of Indian Systems of Medicine (AYUSH) kick started week-long celebrations to mark the celebration of 7th International Day of Yoga. As per the guidelines of Ministry of AYUSH and current year theme “Be with Yoga Be at Home” due to the prevailing pandemic situation most of the activities are being organized from various virtual platforms. In his address to officers and officials of the ISM (AYUSH) department he emphasized that Directorate is committed to take Yoga upto the grass root level and urged all the stakeholders to participate in this week long celebration with full zest and fervor. Directorate of ISM also organized a webinar in which Prof and Ex-Head of Department of Transfusion Medicine and a prominent Yoga enthusiast Dr T R Raina was invited as speaker. Dr Raina gave a detailed presentation on the topic “Holistic Health and Science of Stress through Yoga” in which he emphasized over the evidence based applications of Yogic techniques for health promotion stress mitigation disease prevention and management..