GEORGIA: The fact that the mainstream American public and intelligentsia alike have been increasingly applauding Yoga as a means for better mental and physical health is getting more and more evident with the 37 million people practicing it regularly,.
And now comes the report that the Georgia Bulldogs baseball team of University of Georgia in Athens have incorporated Yoga as a part of training.
It helps the team in mobility, stretching, health, flexibility, injury prevention, peace of mind and recovery; it is widely believed. Georgia baseball, the college baseball team which dates back to 1886, won the national championship in 1990.
According to US National Institutes of Health, Yoga may help one to feel more relaxed, be more flexible, improve posture, breathe deeply, and get rid of stress. Also a recently released “2016 Yoga in America Study”, reveals about 37 million Americans (which included many celebrities) now practice Yoga; and Yoga is strongly correlated with having a positive self image. Yoga was the repository of something basic in the human soul and psyche.
Yoga, referred as “a living fossil”, was a mental and physical discipline for everybody to share and benefit from, whose traces go back to around 2,000 BCE to Indus Valley civilization. According to Patanjali who codified it in Yoga Sutra, yoga was a methodical effort to attain perfection, through the control of the different elements of human nature, physical and psychical.
Commending the Georgia baseball team for coming forward and providing an opportunity to players to avail the multiple benefits of yoga, Rajan Zed president of Universal Society of Hinduism said that although introduced and nourished by Hinduism, it has been a world heritage and liberation powerhouse to be utilized by all. He urged all the college sports/athletic teams of USA to incorporate highly beneficial Yoga in the lives of their players/athletes.
India Post News Service
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