JEDDAH: Mashael Akram Abdulrasheed will on Thursday make history when she becomes the first Saudi woman to referee at the Mt. Everest International Yoga Championship. The second edition of the event has been organized by the Nepal Yoga Association and the International Yoga Sports Federation. Abdulrasheed was among Saudi Arabia’s first batch of 19 female and two male yogasana
Nouf Marwaai has been the president of the Saudi Yoga Committee a body under the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee at the Ministry of Sport since last year. She took up yoga in 1998 because of health issues and has been practicing for more than 20 years, becoming the first certified yoga teacher in Saudi Arabia. In recognition of her efforts in popularizing the exercise