Lam Dong hosts mass yoga event for healthy ageing message

More than 500 yoga instructors, practitioners, local residents and visitors gathered in Phan Thiet ward on June 28 for a mass performance that marked the 12th International Day of Yoga in Lam Dong province. Under the local theme “Yoga - Living Healthy Through the Years,” the event turned a public space into a visible showcase for yoga as a shared community practice rather than a studio-bound class.

The performance was co-organized by the Lam Dong Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City. A yoga instructor from the consulate guided participants through the mass display, giving the gathering a diplomatic and cultural dimension alongside its wellness message. The scale mattered: clubs and centers across Lam Dong were able to mobilize enough people to make the event feel less like a demonstration and more like a province-wide assembly.

The timing connected Lam Dong’s celebration to the wider International Day of Yoga message this year. The Ministry of Ayush framed the 2026 theme as “Yoga for Healthy Ageing,” emphasizing preventive healthcare, active lifestyles and holistic well-being across age groups. In Lam Dong, that idea came through in the emphasis on living healthily, balancing body and mind, and presenting yoga as a practice that belongs in public life, not only in private routines.

A Vietnam News Agency video summary said the event also aimed to strengthen cultural exchange and sustainable tourism cooperation between Vietnam and India. That broader frame fit the scene on the ground, where instructors stood alongside everyday practitioners and visitors from neighboring localities, turning the performance into a community gathering with regional reach.

Lam Dong’s yoga network appears to be building beyond one-off celebrations. Huynh Thi Duy Ninh, president of the Lam Dong Yoga Federation, has said the Phan Thiet Yoga Club is also giving members opportunities to compete, sharpen their skills and move toward higher-level events at national and international level. The June 28 gathering showed the same ecosystem at work: clubs, officials and foreign cultural partners all pushing the practice into the open, where a mass performance could carry a healthy-ageing message far beyond the mat.