AIPH University organizes Yoga Olympiad at Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. The Event is to promote awareness of yoga and to build up a network of yoga students, practitioners, teachers and sadhakas at the national and international levels. Today, Yoga practices have become very popular among youngsters. AIPH University, the first public health University of eastern India is a hub of transforming learning, blending theoretical knowledge with practical exposure to address pressing public health challenges. The Department of yoga at AIPH University provides various programs in Yoga aiming the preventive & holistic healthcare. Students can achieve great success in their career with mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritual health. The objectives of HIMALAYA (Yoga Olympiad) are to promote awareness of yoga and to build up a network of yoga students, practitioners, sadhakas at the national and international levels. Through this, we hope to spread the message of yoga as a science of holistic living to be achieved through Jnanayoga, Rajayoga, Bhaktiyoga llland Karmayoga, by any one or more or all of them. Yoga competitions, over the years at the national and international levels, have attracted youths in lakhs; it is important that these youngsters are given a direction of Holisticism, sharing and caring, harmony, peace, sacrifice and love as the key features of yoga. Hence it is felt that Competitions build up ego or lead to depressions at the face of successes and failures. Competitions work at Rajasika level featured by selfishness, strong desires to make money, name and fame.The result of such a Rajasika society is terrorism, gun, and stress hazards in the form of child abuse, large number of psychosomatic ailments and psychiatric problems. In such a backdrop of emphasis on materialism, it is but natural that even 'yoga' will be engulfed and dragged by the men of Rajas'. Today, Yoga competitions have become very popular among youngsters practicing yoga. There are now two alternate solutions: one is to shun all such activities related to yoga competitions; and the other is to give a new direction. It is the latter that AIPHU has launched through HIMALAYA. Competition should be converted into Cooperation, self-centered individuality to 'group-centered team spirit', replacing 'I' by 'We'. It is a team event.