Holding a ball in hand, practitioneers make it move through every joint of the body to musical accompaniment and the ball seems to work with the body in a perfectly way. The exercise, called football yoga, is jointly created by coaches from the Asian Yoga Federation and the Indian Gandhi Yoga and Natural Treatment Institute.

As most of the World Cup football matches are kicked off at midnight and some last until five in the morning, many Chinese soccer fans will have to stay up all night to watch the games.The football yoga can help improve the health conditions of these soccer fans and renew their vigor both physically and mentally, said Zhang Wei, head of the Asian Yoga Federation Sichuan branch.

According to Ruixi, a postgraduate at the Indian Gandhi Yoga and Natural Treatment Institute, people normally wake up when the sun rises and go to bed after sunset.

This biological clock is the result of human beings' adaptation to the environment. During the World Cup season, soccer fans' biological clock will be disturbed and their eyesight, digestive system and sleeping habits affected, and the spinal column will be damaged, too.

With the football yoga exercise, soccer fans can concentrate all their energy on the football. By doing so, fans will not only have a chance to play with the ball, the exercise will be good to their health as well.

Zhang said that the football yoga exercise does not involve any commercial interest. Any soccer fans in Chengdu can learn it free of charge and experience the fun and benefits it brings.