Jammu, Oct 7 (UNI) Advising young turks as well as the veterans that yoga as routine will be a great value addition to health and fitness level, the Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council, Nuzhat Gull on Friday said that more yoga events are in the pipeline under the already notified ‘My Youth My Pride’ calendar of activities.
She was speaking at the concluding ceremony of the Third UT Level Yogasana Sports Championship organized by J&K Sports Council in collaboration with J&K Yogasana Sports Association at Sher-i-Kashmir Indoor Stadium Srinagar.
“More Yoga events are in pipeline and they shall be conducted as per the already notified 'My Youth My Pride' calendar and in addition to that classes for beginners shall also be held,” said the Secretary.
Nearly 400 athletes including officials also from the Sports Authority of India from 15 districts of the Union Territory participated in the two-day event.
The event witnessed a huge crowd of spectators
Nuzhat Farooq, Sports Officer Kashmir and Dr. Raqib Rasool Parrey, Joint Secretary, J&K Yogasana Sports Association were guests of honour.
The events were held for both boys and girls age groups in the cadet, sub-junior boys, sub junior girls, junior boys, junior girls, senior boys and girls and above.
The events included a preliminary round for beginners followed by traditional yogasana, artistic single and pair as well as rhythmic pair.
Abhishek Sharma and Furkan Sopori in boys category and Soumya Gupta and Toiba Nazir in girls category were declared best players of the championship.
The championship was supervised and mentored by Anil Gupta, Yoga Coach, RCC Jammu, Shabir Ahmad Dar, RCC , Sringar, Suresh Kumar NIS Yoga Coach, representative of the Ladakh Yogasana sports Association.

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