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India and Slovenia team up for inner well-being and sports
A country with hundreds of years of tradition, India and a tiny European Republic, Slovenia are busy exchanging pleasantries. Slovenians are increasing taking to yoga and Ayurveda while India is availing support from the Balkan nation to improve its sports infrastructure.
New Delhi: A country with hundreds of years of tradition, India and a tiny European Republic, Slovenia are busy exchanging pleasantries. Slovenians are increasing taking to yoga and Ayurveda while India is availing support from the Balkan nation to improve its sports infrastructure.
"There are around 30 yoga centres in Slovenia (a splinter country from the former Yugoslavia) and around 10,000 people regularly practice yoga," Gregor Kos, acting secretary general in the Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports, stressed. He added, “That is a big number given that the population of Slovenia is only about two million.”
The secretary general was in New Delhi to attend the India-Central Europe Business Forum (ICEBF), a major business event organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) March 27-28.
During the course of his visit, he also met officials of the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) here to explore more possibilities of promoting yoga and ayurveda in his country.
"At Ayush, we are discussing the possibility of signing an agreement between India and Slovenia on ayurveda and yoga. The idea is to ensure quality control," Kos said.
Kos, who has strong links with India, said that Slovenians are releasing the benefits of Yoga and Ayurveda and that many of whom are seeking to recapture the erstwhile warm ties in the sixties between India and the undivided Yugoslavia when Jawaharlal Nehru and Marshal Josip Broz Tito were founders of the Non-Aligned Movement.
"In 2004, we established the India-Slovenia Friendship Association (ISFA) in (Slovenia's capital) Ljubljana with the aim of promoting Indian culture, cuisine, habits and wisdom," Kos, who has been a strict vegetarian for 20 years now because of his belief in the Indian philosophy of ahimsa, said.
