{"id":18009,"date":"2021-11-23T03:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2021-11-23T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:25:32","slug":"first-ever-national-yoga-championships-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/11\/23\/first-ever-national-yoga-championships-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever National Yoga Championships Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, November 12, 2012 (Daily Pioneer): The first-ever Physical National Yogasana Sports Championships kick-started in Bhubaneswar on Thursday with a vibrant opening ceremony in the presence of 560 bright, young athletes from 30 States aiming high for 50 medals in a uniquely-designed competition. Organized in association with the Government of Odisha, the three-day competition is a stepping stone in the direction of making Yogasana a part of the prestigious Olympics platform.<br><br>The event has been conceptualized with an aim to create a global brand of Yogasana as a competitive sport and support India\u2019s vision to make Yogasana a sport with an Olympic roadmap. Yoga is now being transformed as a sport taking a cue from kabaddi and cricket as yoga has the key to a sustainably healthy lifestyle and wellness. Yogasana sport for both male and female categories has been included in Khelo India Youth Games, 2021.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/2021\/state-editions\/first-ever-national-yoga-championships-begin.html\n\">https:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/2021\/state-editions\/first-ever-national-yoga-championships-begin.html<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, November 12, 2012 (Daily Pioneer): The first-ever Physical National Yogasana Sports Championships kick-started in Bhubaneswar on Thursday with,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18016,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions\/18016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}