Int'l Day of Yoga

June 21 was chosen as INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA due to its meaning of light, energy, and equilibrium, a day when day and night intersect, which symbolizes the goal of yoga, which is to bring harmony between mind, body, and spirit.

MATARIKI is known as the Māori New Year in Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view). Signified by the reappearance of the Matariki stars in the early morning sky brings the past year to a close and marks the beginning of the new year.

Matariki has different names around the world. In English, it is called by its ancient Greek name, Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. In Hawaiian it is Makali’i, ‘eyes of royalty', and in Japan it is Subaru, meaning ‘gathered together’.