{"id":13343,"date":"2014-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/19\/is-yoga-the-secret-to-olympic-gold\/"},"modified":"2014-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:00:00","slug":"is-yoga-the-secret-to-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/19\/is-yoga-the-secret-to-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Yoga the Secret to Olympic Gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/14\/yoga-olympics_n_4777970.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, February 14, 2014 (Huffington Post): Instead of going to Disney World after winning gold in the women&#8217;s snowboarding slopestyle event, Jamie Anderson said she&#8217;ll be headed to Wanderlust &#8212; a yoga retreat on the North Shore of Oahu &#8212; to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson credits yoga practice with helping her stay physically and mentally strong, and she&#8217;s not the only one who feels that way in Sochi. In fact, we discovered so many Olympians-cum-yogis that if the United States Yoga Federation ever succeeds in making yoga asana, or posture yoga, an official Olympic sport, we&#8217;ll most likely see some cross-sport competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Women athletes aren&#8217;t the only ones benefiting from yoga. America&#8217;s coed luge team, for instance, is partnering with Indian rival Shiva Keshavan in order to gain stretching tips. &#8220;Yoga is something we have had with the team for a few years now,&#8221; U.S. coach Mark Grimmette has said, &#8220;but Shiva and his wife know yoga well so they have been facilitating those sessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View images of yoga practicing Olympians at &#8216;source&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, February 14, 2014 (Huffington Post): Instead of going to Disney World after winning gold in the women&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}