OM Yoga UK - November 2018

Yoga champions

The Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram played host recently to the Asian Yoga Sports

Championships for the first time. It marks the eighth outing of the championships and

attracted participation from hundreds of yogis from more than a dozen countries (including

over 100 participants from India itself). Like it or not, competitive yoga seems here to stay,

with tournaments popping up all over the world, including the UK and USA. It marked only

the second time that India had played host to the Asian Yoga Sports Championships, after

Hyderabad. The first meeting of the championships took place in Thailand.

Record breaker

A Hong Kong yogi has broken the world record for holding a headstand while carrying

a staggering 50kg of weight. The city’s so-called ‘king of yoga’ Yogaraj C.P. balanced a

50kg weight while in a headstand for 40 seconds. He also, at the fourth attempt, served

as a ‘human chair’ while in headstand for his mum for 59 seconds. It resulted in two

new Guinness World Records. “I was feeling a little bit of pressure, but I was confident,”

Yogaraj said afterwards. It’s enough to make you wince...especially those of us who

struggle to hold a headstand for one second without tumbling over.

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