Assessment of Yoga Awareness and Philosophical Literacy among School Students: Insights from the National Yoga Olympiad 2024

Mukesh Kumar Verma

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.64040

Assessment of Yoga Awareness and Philosophical Literacy among School Students: Insights from the National Yoga Olympiad 2024

Author(s)	Dr. Mukesh Kumar Verma
Country	India
Abstract	This paper was focused on the perception and knowledge of yoga among school-going kids who attended the National Yoga Olympiad 2024 which was held by the NCERT under the supervision of the MoE, GoI, and DOSEL. The survey on 477 students 237 boys and 240 girls in 31 units and 21 States/Union territories, Six National Bodies and Four Regional Institutes of Education (RIEs) located all around the country formed the basis of this research. The participants were divided into Middle and Secondary Stages and the answers to the questions about the useful, philosophical and scriptural aspects of Yoga were evaluated. These data demonstrate that the advantages of Yoga are greatly understood on a practical level (the main benefits of Yoga are recognized by 99.2% of people, and the International Day of Yoga can be observed by 98.95% of people). There is not much awareness about its philosophical and scriptural aspects though as the rates of the concepts like Panchakosha (13.63%), yoga’s citta-vrtti-nirodhah (72.75%), and others, are less correct. This opposition is a learning point of difference between physical routines and the abundant international and historical aspects of yoga. Not only do the results reveal that there has been a sufficient grounding of the practical benefits of yoga but also indicate that other gaping holes still exist in philosophy and scriptures. This shows that education systems have now new attention on the physical and functional aspects of yoga and only have very little or no relation with the spiritual and historical significance of yoga. Some of the recommendations put forward were infrastructure in the teaching and learning of the scripture and philosophical teaching, as well as aspect of traditional and contemporary input in the education curriculum. They played a crucial role of a holistic knowing of yoga such that it can be a holistic practice itself and as a transformative instrument of personal and social welfare.
Keywords	Yoga Awareness, philosophical dimensions, scriptural knowledge, National Yoga Olympiad, holistic development.
Field	Sociology > Health
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-25
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.64040

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