A ’World Yoga League’ soon to surface.

A ’World Yoga League’ soon to surface.

Mangalore Today News Network

Jan 15, 2016: We have seen Indians competing alongside foreign players in the Indian Premier League, Badminton League, Indian Hockey League and Football League. Now get ready to see the same in yoga.

Moodbidri :  The Yoga Federation of India will shortly announce World Yoga League.  Talking to media  on the sidelines of the National Yoga Sports Championship at Moodbidri,  Ashok Kumar Aggarwal, the Secretary General of Yoga Federation of India, said the Federation has signed a memorandum of understanding with a sports concern for conducting matches.

We have seen Indians competing alongside foreign players in the Indian Premier League, Badminton League, Indian Hockey League and Football League. Now get ready to see the same in yoga. “While it’s our responsibility to get yoga practitioners, the firm will be conducting the events of the league,” said  Aggarwal.

Dec General Aggarwal said apart from practitioners from different parts of the country, there will be participants from countries namely South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, China and Vietnam.  There will be eight teams in the World Yoga League and each team will have a mix of Indian and foreign players. Like in other sports leagues, corporate bodies and popular personalities will be bid for each of the player.

“Like cricketers and footballers, we want our (yoga practitioners) men/ women to  earn well. We want to make this league popular with the public.”  Aggarwal said they are working details of World Yoga League competitions, which they propose to hold in August’16. Information will be made available soon he added.