Amazing pictures of people doing yoga during the solar eclipse in India

• Breathtaking images show youngsters doing asanas on International Yoga Day under the solar eclipse.
  
• Even the June 21 was the summer solstice — the longest day of the year when the sun is at its brightest — the skies were darkened by the Moon’s shadow.
  
• These images show how much youngsters took the occasion to do yoga under darkened skies.
  

The day of the solar eclipse and the summer solstice also coincided with International Yoga Day. Spectacular images show youngsters performing yoga in the third-largest city of Maharashtra — Nagpur.


On June 21, the longest day of the year — the summer solstice — much of the sunlight was blocked out by the Moon as it aligned itself between the Earth and the Sun.


According to astronomers — during a solar eclipse — it’s like a 500W bulb has been switched out for a 30W bulb in the sky.


Here are some breathtaking images of people doing yoga under darkened skies: