<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: var(--bs-body-color); font-family: var(--bs-font-sans-serif); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">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.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">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 <b>AIPHU</b> has launched through <b>HIMALAYA
. </b>Competition should be converted into Cooperation, self-centered
individuality to 'group-centered team spirit', replacing<b> 'I'</b> by '<b>We</b>'.
It is a team event.<span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:
yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
