Yoga has amazing curative and preventive powers for well-being of humanity and modern lifestyle related disorders, President Pranab Mukherjee said today.

Mukherjee inaugurated a mass yoga event at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate the first International Yoga Day today. Speaking on the occasion, the president conveyed his best wishes to all on International Yoga Day. He said that India is the home of Yoga where it was practiced over centuries.

"It has amazing curative as well as preventive powers for the well-being of humanity and for the management of many modern lifestyle related disorders," the president said. He said one of the most important teachers of yoga was Guru Patanjali.

Mukherjee said yoga is both an art as well as a science. He expressed his happiness that many residents of Rashtrapati Bhavan have been practicing Yoga for a long period of time.