The festival was jointly inaugurated on Saturday by Ambassador of India to Nepal Naveen Srivastava, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal Sudan Kirati, and Chief Minister of Lumbini Province Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary.
The Indian Ambassador along with the Nepali Tourism minister and Chief Minister of the Province performed Yoga for about an hour under the guidance of the 'Guru' from the Patanjali Yog Peeth.
The Indian Ambassador to Nepal Naveen Srivastava, a large number of yoga enthusiasts on Tuesday performed Yoga in Nepal's Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, ahead of the International Day of Yoga on June 21.