Welcome to the American Sports Institute
—Vision and Perspective

The American Sports Institute is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (NGO), cultural, and educational center for theory, research, development, service, and training in sport culture, physical activity, and wellness as personal and social transformative processes and practices.

The vision of the American Sports Institute is to enable individuals and social institutions everywhere to realize their full potential through the reintegration of the body with the mind and spirit, and by reinstating physical activity and the physical domain to equal More»

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“Our body was built to exercise. And if we don’t do that, we pay for it because we are violating our own evolutionary makeup that made our body in that way.”

—Professor Fernando Gómez-Pinilla
University of California, Los Angeles

Research Community

For preadolescent students, aerobic activity improves math scores. Find out how in this study led by one of ASI’s Advisors.

Almost one million students validate what the ancient Greeks knew—a sound body produces an efficient mind.

Sobering study shows that just over half of U.S. public-school students now live in poverty.

San Francisco Chronicle publishes ASI letter-to-editor calling for physical activity-based learning to be part of California Governor’s agenda.

Human beings thrive when the body and mind are perceived as integrated and working together.

Our hearts and thoughts go out to the people of Spain, especially those who were killed and injured in the violent attack in Barcelona, and their loved ones.

The Arete School: The positive aspects of sport culture can transform our public schools.

ASI Advisor Professor William Damon of Stanford University has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Coming Soon — Interviews on the inner aspects of sport culture, physical education, and wellness, and how they affect us personally, socially, internationally.

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—Vision and Perspective

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