Organised annually over two weeks the Health for Humanity Yogathon which started in 2011 has already competed 10 years of promoting Yoga on a mass scale in New Zealand Yoga with roots in ancient Hindu philosophy is slowly and steadily growing in New Z
General secretary Dr Guna Magesan said the council had been serving the community with the aim of vashudhaiva kutumbakam, or the world is one family . In past years, all events have been co-ordinated and executed together with the Māori community and this year will be no different.
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Then Prime Minister Helen Clark speaking at the opening of the first New Zealand Hindu Council conference in Auckland in 2007. The celebration starts at the Apumoana Marae, Rotorua, with a pōwhiri followed by a workshop on rangoli (ancient Indian art) and mehndi moko, a fusion of Indian and Māori art forms.