Originally published 2014· Written by Yoga Sports Coach™ Vedant Patwardhan

What happens when the traditions of yoga meet the contemporary demands of competitive sport?

In this short video, Yoga Sports Coach™ Vedant Patwardhan, from Pune, India, shares his perspective on the differences between traditional yoga teaching and the Yoga Sports Science® approach.

A long-standing yoga practitioner and former professional cricketer who played at national level in India, Vedant brings a valuable combination of personal experience, sporting knowledge and yoga education to the conversation.

His observations offer an opportunity to explore how traditional yoga practices can be understood and adapted through the lens of sports science, with consideration for the specific physical and psychological demands placed on athletes.

At the Institute of Yoga Sports Science®, this relationship between yoga and contemporary movement science has been central to our educational approach.

The aim is to und...

Originally published 2012 · Yoga Sports Coach™ Annelize Ferreira shares her personal experience of competition nerves.

Ten months ago, I would never have thought that I would be moving a 15 kg barbell plate 84 times from ground to overhead, performing 49 unassisted pull-ups and racing my way through 210 double-unders (all against the clock) in front of a 2,000-strong crowd.

I was competing as part of a six-member team at Europe's largest CrossFit competition: Divided We Fall CrossFit Games 2012.

As a recreational CrossFit fanatic, this was the ultimate test of my physical progress and an opportunity to compare my fitness levels against approximately 236 other women attending from across the UK.

Weeks of intense training and a few injury scares were finally behind me, and I was faced with the biggest challenge of all: competition NERVES!

Instinctively, I put into practice the skills I had gained from my Yoga Sports Science® training. I took myself off to a quiet corner, settled int...