Parihaan Peerzada only girl from Bandipora district who has won a national championship in Yoga and has 4 national championships in her name in martial arts.
Parihaan who hails from Naz Colony locality of Bandipora, started her career in sports when she was just six years of age.
She says that she then played sqay martial arts because for a girl learning self-defence techniques are very important. “The third sport she chose and played was Yoga because it is very important for our physical as well as mental health.”She says she did three courses in snow skiing in Gulmarg .
“After snow skiing,she started learning self-defence.
She chose Yoga because Yoga plays an important role in “our lives”. “Our mind and lives remain active if we regularly perform yoga. I am the only girl from Bandipora who is a national champion in Yoga,” she said.
She said that on International Yoga Day last year, she was invited as a female yoga instructor by the district administration.
Apart from this, Parihaan says she is a good singer and she is a female instructor at a local gym centre in Bandipora.
