6TH INTERNATIONAL HIMALAYA YOGA OLYMPIAD
December, 2007
PRASHANTI KUTIRAM
December 15, 2007

Dear Participant,

The objectives of HIMALAYA ( Yoga Olympiad) is to promote the awareness of yoga and to build up a net work of yoga students, practitioners, teachers and sadhakas at the national and international legels. Through this we hope to spread the message of yoga as a science of holistic living to be achieved through Jnanayoga, Rajayoga, Bhaktiyoga, and karmayoga, by any one or more or all of them as proclaimed by Swami Vivekananda. Thus HIMALAYA will be a venture of the VYASA to help mankind to grow together, expand oneself and come out of this rush of selfishness and cut throat competitions.
Yoga competitions, over the years at the national and international levels, have attracted youths almost in lakhs; it is important that these youngsters are given a direction of Holisticism sharing an caring, harmony , peace, Sacrifice and love as the key features of yoga. Hence it is felt that HIMALAYA should bring the idea of an Olympic sports or a marathon peace run in the field of yoga rather than one individual being declared as a world champion in performing asanas only with idea, the present international Yoga awareness programme is named HIMALAYA to give a meaning that we come together for achieving highest Himalaya harmony and love and not to boost up one’s ego as champion.
The syllabus, therefore, cannot end with physical demonstration of yogasanas only. It has also aspects to measure the individual’s knowledge and grasp of concept and definition of yoga and its various techniques, apart from asanas for total growth of individual at physical, mental emotional and spiritual levels. It also has an application fro one of the major problems of today the stress.
Please find enclosed some instructions and details about the course which you should please go through carefully. Do not hesitate to contact your organizer for any clarification.
With love

H. R. Nagendra
Vice Chancellor, SVYASA , Bangalore