Scaling up efforts to position Ayurveda as a sustainable and inclusive wellness system for the entire world and strengthening international networking of stakeholders by forming a Global Alliance of Ayurveda, the 5th Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF 2023) drew to a close here on Tuesday.
The five-day event saw Ayurvedic practitioners, scholars, students, policy makers and a wide array of stakeholders from India and abroad deliberating on a wide spectrum of topics besides evolving strategies for projecting Ayurveda’s huge potential in addressing the health challenges of the present world and imparting a momentum to wellness tourism.
Inaugurating the valedictory function of the conclave at the Greenfield International Stadium here, former Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar said as a time-tested holistic wellness system the relevance of Ayurveda had increased manyfold in a world faced with serious health challenges arising from lifestyle, stress and ecological disruptions.
