Stillness in Sport is a newsletter exploring sport psychology, photography, and culture, and the search for the thread that binds them all together.
I’m Shaantanu Kulkarni — a PhD Candidate in Human Kinetics and a sport psychology professional.
As a competitive youth soccer player at a professional club, student, and now a graduate sport psychology researcher and practitioner, I have spent more than a decade in sport closely experiencing and appreciating the absolute joys as well as the roller-coaster of emotions deeply felt across training sessions and tournaments.
What Stillness in Sport is about
During my time navigating soccer, life, and work, I have been seeking stillness to enjoy life’s challenges, be amidst nature, and live a purposeful life.
If you have worked in sport or are an athlete, you will know the value of seeking stillness — to live and perform with confidence, clarity, composure, and discipline. The road to high performance passes through stillness.
The newsletter has two paths:
STILLNESS
Action-oriented, evidence-based, and nuanced articles on sport psychology and mental training knowledge and resources conveying the value of psychological preparation in amateur and competitive sport and exercise pursuits.
Apt for athletes and teams eager to improve their performance, participation, and mental well-being through leveraging the potential of sport psychology.
Also written for coaches, sport science professionals and parents to understand and implement vital sport psychology strategies from the sidelines to reach our shared goal of supporting the development of sports persons.
Research based potentially long-form informative and perspective articles aimed at exploring the deep interactions between research and practice in (sport and exercise) psychology.
SUNSHINE
Personal essays and perspective articles about life experiences, observations about photography and culture, and parallel areas that I’m passionate about — such as the intersection of mental health and community development with active (cycling) and public transportation and urban built and natural environment design.
About me
I am a PhD Candidate in Human Kinetics in the School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at Laurentian University in Canada.
As a sport psychology practitioner, I have close to four years of experience of working with amateur and professional athletes and teams across different sports at a premier multi-sport complex in Bangalore, India. I strive to bring an open mind and create a non-judgmental, motivated environment to understand people, teams and their interactions in sport, performance, exercise, and physical activity environments.
I’m so glad and grateful you are seeking Stillness in Sport.
Best,
Shaantanu
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