Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Yoga and the Olympics?

Yoga competitions are a constantly increasing worldwide activity. In India yoga has been a traditional sport for over 1200 years. The World Yoga council has recently been pushing to get yoga entered as an Olympic event. Many people are very supportive of this idea, however a lot of controversy has been raised. Will making yoga more competitive destroy the spiritual and lifestyle components of it? Below is a link to an article that got me interested in this idea.

http://yogamagazine.discover-yoga-online.com/yoga-competition.html
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21 comments:

  1. Railard J.2 August 2011 at 19:13

    wow I really didn't know Yoga is so old , very interesting

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  2. nowaysj2 August 2011 at 19:53

    I vote no, on yoga being a sport. I love sports, and I love yoga, but I don't think they belong together. Sport is competition, yoga is freedom.

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  3. nowaysj2 August 2011 at 19:53

    Damn, forgot to mention, FOLLOWED :O

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  4. Unknown2 August 2011 at 20:02

    Huh, I never knew they had competitions for this, I bet its very interesting to watch. It's crazy how flexible some people can be.

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  5. kwile2 August 2011 at 20:17

    Never knew they had competitions. Could be interesting I guess. Though it is spose to be spiritual.

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  6. Shockgrubz2 August 2011 at 20:36

    Who would judge these competitions? And if they accept it, I demand another look at olympic hackeysack.

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  7. thetruthaboutGENETICS2 August 2011 at 20:41

    Yoga would totally be a great competition to watch! Like seeing who is the most bendable and flexible! I support this idea!

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  8. Unknown2 August 2011 at 21:40

    Wow, I also never had any idea there were Yoga competitions. "Let's see who can relax the hardest/longest!" lol

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  9. Uberbyron3 August 2011 at 00:36

    Could you write a post about what exactly competitive yoga entails?

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  10. M Fawful3 August 2011 at 00:53

    I didn't know competitive yoga was even possible. Seems like a fine idea though.

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  11. T Papar3 August 2011 at 01:58

    i dont see yoga as a competitive sport. quite the opposite actually.

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  12. Ingönyama3 August 2011 at 05:53

    i dont think that yoga matches with the olympic thought

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  13. Khorne3 August 2011 at 06:45

    I think that yoga shouldn't become a competitive sport, that's not the "spirit" of this activity.

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  14. Magixx3 August 2011 at 07:16

    lol, that sounds pretty weird to me, since you don't need to train for months or years to accomplish something that has to do with sports :S

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  15. Film Geek Bastard3 August 2011 at 09:44

    I heard ballroom dancing may be added. Why not yoga?

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  16. Heaven.3 August 2011 at 09:53

    Wow, I'd never really considered yoga as Olympics-worth.

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  17. Rob3 August 2011 at 12:09

    I didn't even know yoga COULD BE competitive but then again I don't know much about yoga at all. That's why I'm here though! haha

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  18. animestan3 August 2011 at 13:14

    Ya I agree with some of the above. How would you really judge yoga, by the difficulty of the poses?

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  19. KalOo3 August 2011 at 13:38

    how do they make competition ? looking how good they make the pose ? or how long ? ... would be fcking boring to watch ^^

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  20. RisingSun24683 August 2011 at 14:31

    I wonder if competition and yoga can go together. The purpose of yoga is union after all.

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  21. Life, Liberty and Accountability7 August 2011 at 13:14

    I don't really understand how you could make Yoga competitive? And once you did, wouldn't it pretty much be gymnastics? :P

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