Times of India reports 10,000 joined fourth Worldwide Yoga Nidra Celebration

Current assessment: The available evidence supports a cautious report that Rishi Chaitanya Ashram held a fourth Worldwide Yoga Nidra Celebration involving an organizer-reported total of more than 10,000 participants in eight countries. The strongest available source is a September 28 report in The Times of India. That report is sufficient to describe the event and its claimed scale with clear attribution, but it does not independently verify the attendance figure or fully explain the role of Ganaur, Haryana in what appears to have been a distributed international practice.

Reported facts

The Times of India reported that more than 10,000 people in Australia, Dubai, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain and India took part in the fourth Worldwide Yoga Nidra Celebration. Its headline placed the celebration in Ganaur, Haryana.

According to the report, Rishi Chaitanya Ashram organized the program in association with local Rishi Chaitanya Vision Centres, with guidance from Anandmurti Gurumaa. The article characterizes the event as a collective Yoga Nidra practice rather than a conventional single-site festival.

Supporting evidence

The Times of India published the report on September 28, 2026, and directly identifies both the claimed participation total and the countries involved. It also names Rishi Chaitanya Ashram and the associated Vision Centres as organizers. This establishes that an established news outlet carried the account and that the claim is connected to a named organization.

The report’s wording, however, indicates that key details,including statements about the practice and a referenced pilot study,were presented through organizers or proponents. For this event report, the material point is that the article provides a specific, attributable account of an international Yoga Nidra program; it does not provide independently auditable evidence of attendance.

Limitations and competing evidence

No official organizer announcement, registration record, livestream analytics, venue capacity documentation, or independent local reporting was located in the consulted material. The attendance total should therefore remain attributed to the Times of India report and, by extension, to the organizers described there.

The location also requires care. While the article headline identifies Ganaur, Haryana, the body says people participated across eight countries. The available record does not establish that 10,000 people were physically present in Ganaur. A cautious reading is that Ganaur was connected to the celebration, while participation was distributed across local centres and international locations.

The article was published on September 28, 2026, but says participants “recently” came together rather than giving a specific event date. The available record also does not explain whether the 10,000 figure refers to registrations, unique participants, simultaneous attendees, or a cumulative total.

Current conclusion

The available record supports reporting that the fourth Worldwide Yoga Nidra Celebration was described by The Times of India as an organizer-led, multi-country program involving more than 10,000 participants. It does not establish the claimed total as independently verified, nor does it establish that the full number assembled physically in Ganaur. An official organizer statement with counting methodology, a program date, and clarification of the Ganaur venue’s role would materially strengthen the report.