WORKSHOPS > SPORTS YOGA

"SPORTS YOGIS"; is a customized yoga program which helps in enhancing and improving the stamina as well as focus of the sports person on the game; be it golf, cricket, football/ soccer, or billiards etc etc. You name it, and we will strategize a customized workshop specifically meeting your game requirements which will basically depend on the analysis we come upon.

After several discussions and interviews of many prominent sports persons, Yogalife research team understood the requirements and various other factors effecting the ideal playing flow of a specific player. Therefore, this program; basically derived from the "Corporate Yogis" program; was introduced. The "Sports Yogis" program makes sure, this customized program delivers what it is required to be game for the game. The content of the course will vary depending on the requirements of the game.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS BHARAT (INDIA)

Yogalife enjoyed one of its favorite projects: working with 139 special athletes from India who participated in the Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Shanghai, China from 2nd to 11th of October 2007.

Yogalife conducted a workshop for the Special Olympics Team of India , which consists of 139 special athletes from different fields, which was a great success. The objective was to equip them with the great inner power, a strength which everybody is carrying within so that it empower them for their success, to become a milestone in the history of Indian sports.

The beautifully disciplined kids enjoyed their first Yoga session on Sunday with lots of laughter and dedication. After the class they loudly shouted for more Yoga. Subsequent workshop for the team will took place on 25th and 26th of September in the afternoon.

We are proud to run this workshop with these enthusiastic, young athletes, who despite of all the odds ready to take up the world at YMCA, Greater NOIDA, the venue for the final preparatory training camp before departing for Shanghai on 27 September 2007.

The athletes participated in 13 Olympic-type sports such as aquatics, athletics, badminton, basketball, bocce, cricket, cycling, football, roller skating, volleyball, handball, Table Tennis, power lifting.

Background from Special Olympics Website, press release 15 May 2006
India Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar announced on 10 May 2006 that the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has conferred Priority Classification as an accredited sports federation on Special Olympics Bharat (India). The announcement in New Delhi recognizes the status of Special Olympics in India and exemplifies the continued growth of Special Olympics throughout the world. This year, Special Olympics celebrated attaining a five-year growth goal to reach 2 million people with intellectual disabilities. Currently, there are more than 2.25 million athletes worldwide participating in Special Olympics, 200,000 of which train and compete in 24 Olympic-type sports throughout India.
 

For more details on this program, please email at info@yogalife.org with subject line "Sports Yogis".