{"id":35027,"date":"2020-12-19T05:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=35027"},"modified":"2020-12-19T05:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:14:43","slug":"yogasana-as-competitive-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/yogasana-as-competitive-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogasana as Competitive Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Sidda Homoeopathy) and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports formally recognised yogasana as a competitive sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The origins of Yogasana competitions can be traced to the Indian Yoga tradition, where such competitions have been held for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yogasana is an integral and important component of Yoga, which is psycho-physical in nature and popular across the globe for its efficacy in fitness and general wellness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competitions that will arise out of the recognition of Yogasana as a sport will enhance interest in Yoga among people around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government of India is planning to include Yogasana as a Sport discipline in National Games, Khelo India and international sports events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Sidda Homoeopathy) and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports formally recognised yogasana as a competitive sport. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The origins of Yogasana competitions can be traced to the Indian Yoga tradition, where such competitions have been held for centuries. Yogasana is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":35028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-35027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35029,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions\/35029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35027"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=35027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}