World Yoga Day: Strengthen immune system through yoga: ‘Chhota Ramdev’

Bhanu P Lohumi

Tribune News Service

Shimla, June 20

Creating awareness about Covid and exhorting people to practise yoga and meditation, Harsh Vardhan Singh Kanwar, popularly known as Harsh Kanwar Yogi, says, “Your medicine is inside your body that prepares you to fight the disease”.

“We have to strengthen our immune system through yoga and pranayam, besides practising various “asanas” and take nutritious food such as green vegetable, fruits, lukewarm water, milk and strictly avoid taking stale food,” asserts Harish, who has also earned the sobriquet “Chhota Ramdev”.

A resident of Shatiaya, gram panchayat of Theog, 18-year-old Harish has passed his Class XII and is taking free online sessions on yoga and creating awareness on Covid.

“I started learning yoga at the age of 10 while studying in Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Shimla,” says Harsh.

With five world records to his credit, Harsh was honoured internationally twice, represented five times the national yoga competition and was conferred with the Bharat Yoga Award by Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.

Serious about eating habits and diet, Harsh advises people to take healthy food and remain physically and mentally fit. He has won 32 national and international medals.

He has done advance yoga and can perform over 100 aasanas with ease and asks people to practise yogasana and pranayam. He was also conferred with the Himachal Popular Personality Award 2019 in the online yoga session by the Lotus Yoga Center of Singapore amid the lockdown for teaching advance yogasana.

“If you take nutritious diet in your daily routine, consume hot things and do yoga, the immune system will be strengthened and it will be easier for the body to make antibodies,” he says,