14/09/2023
What is Yoga Sports or Sports of Yoga ?
�Yoga Sports have four different sports or disciplines, that are completely different from each other and have separate championships: It is very important to understand that Sports Yogasanas are not Sports Yoga. The first sport that we will define is Sports Asana Yoga or Sports Yogasanas (name in India given to the ancient Static Sports Contortion introduced by the Greeks and Mongols), This sport was created in India independently of contortion. And the major international disseminators were Swami Gitananda and K. C. Sharma, Patron and President of the Yoga Federation of India. This competition is based on doing classical hatha yoga postures and holding them for a prolonged period of time, without any kind of movement or music. Asana Yoga or Yogasanas must be static, and movement and music are prohibited. Officially began to compete as a sport in 1974 in India. (This sport was created in india). And the major international disseminators were Swami Gitananda and K. C. Sharma, Patron and President of the Yoga Federation of India. This competition is based on doing classical hatha yoga postures and holding them for a prolonged period of time, without any kind of movement or music. Asana Yoga or Yogasanas must be static, and movement and music are prohibited. Officially began to compete as a sport in 1974 in India. (This sport was created in India). The second yoga sport is the Mallakhamba, a synthesis of the Greek acrobatics and gymnastics performed by the Greco-Buddhist and Greco-Indian kingdoms in the north of India, with the Mongolian contortion and a kind of aerial yoga postures, using sticks and ropes. They also performed real human towers between several members, postures on sticks and ropes. Its main diffuser was Balambhatta Dada Deodhar, being spread from the year 1795 in the Maratha empire founded by the Maratha King named Shiva. From the year 1981 the Indian Mallakhamba Federation organized the sports and the national cups. The Mallakhamba is divided in, pole Mallakhamba, hanging Mallakhamba and rope Mallakhamba. (This sport was created in india). The third sport is the Sports Yoga or Krida Yoga was created in South America, Uruguay by Dharmachari Maitreyananda (Fernando Estevez), providing the competitor with spiritual scores and not only physical and mental ones. Sports Yoga does not have static asana of classical yoga or hatha yoga but uses human figures and postures of any discipline, it is a continuous movement cut by human or yoga postures. Sports yoga is divided into Sports Artistic Yoga, Sports Rhythmic Yoga, Sports Yoga Dance and Sports Choreographic Yoga. Besides the Yoga Associations of America and Europe the main disseminator of Maitreyananda's Sports Artistic Yoga, Sports Rhythmic Yoga, Sports Yoga Dance and Sports Yoga Choreographic was the Yoga Federation of India, with K.C Sharma as president who appointed Dharmachari Maitreyananda as Patron of the Yoga Federation of India after the passing away of Swami Gitananda in 1993. (This sport was created is South American with influence of Monte Verita Yoga School in Switzerland). The fourth form of yoga technique competitions are free such as yantras, mantras, paintings, pranayama, meditation or surya namaskar and other namaskar. In 1989 Swami Gitananda and Dharmachari Maitreyananda with K.C. Sharma decided to call Sports Yoga Asanas or Sports Yogasanas, and Sports Yoga with the global name Yoga Sport or Sports of Yoga. Form 1989 the world yoga cup is doing by the international yoga sports federation and international sports yoga federation.(collected from International yoga Federation)
