Yoga, originated from Ancient India, though aimed to help on the path of spiritual development, already found a popular place in the field of Sports for high performance, across the globe. Players who are aspiring athletes, need to continuously enhance their physical and psychological limits with both on-filed and off-field training programs to reach and sustain elite levels of play. Yoga-based practices recognize the player as a combination of body-breath and mind complex at any point of time, either during practice or in competition. Hence Inclusion of yoga based practices, as a key ingredient in the off field (court) training programs, offers huge and promising benefits in enhancing agility, flexibility , endurance, power and focus of the players by multi-fold, both on physical and psychological planes. With continuous practice , players would also be able to employ effective coping strategies for both exposed & unexposed stress situations. However, careful selection of right set of practices and techniques under able guidance is a must, for a given sport to obtain the maximum benefit, for example veerabadrasana yoga posture to assist swift and powerful movement for badminton players during lunges. With gradual progression in Yoga based trainings under the careful guidance, clubbed with effective on field (court) and off- field (court) training programs, players can progress from beginners to advanced, from advanced to elite and from elite level to Olympic levels in the field of the sport.
