From the category archives:
The Washington Post has joined in on the ‘Yoga Wars’ debate (who named it this anyway?) It’s been said the battles began when sweaty star Bikram Choudhury moved to patent his sequence of 26 poses back in ‘04. Since then we’ve been hearing more and more about India reclaiming their ancient heritage by documenting yoga, [...]
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The latest in the ‘NYTimes on Yoga’ file (they love it!) is an urging message to all American yogis: If you’re going to continue redefining to the world what yoga is, can y’all stop being (just) posers?
In the article “Posing for Fitness” the author accentuates his cause by comparing two recent books on yoga’s history [...]
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We asked YD readers to contribute questions for Stefanie Syman, author of The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, and she answered them! Even the sub-sub-questions. Huge thank you to readers for Qs and Stefanie for As. Read on for her insightful comments on the yoga industry, commoditization and deepening your practice in a [...]
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Greetings yogadorks! We’re super excited to announce that we will be interviewing Stefanie Syman, author of yoga tell-all The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, and we’ll be asking YOUR questions! So please submit any and all Qs below in the comments (or you can email at yogadork(at)gmail.com). Doesn’t matter if you’ve [...]
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Awesome, so can you wrap your feet over your head?
We’ve heard that one before! (cue: eye roll) Which, if you’re in the right crowd, unfailingly leads to the inevitable freaky sex position exchange, either verbal “Are you into Tantra? Like Sting and Diddy??” or the unspoken, raise of the eyebrows etc – it’s debatable which [...]
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If you’re not a regular NPR listener you may have missed yesterday’s episode of On Point with guest Stefanie Syman, author of The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, which coincidentally happened to be released yesterday as well, believe it or not (June 29). If you haven’t already heard about the book, we’ll [...]
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Hey India, shake what your mama gave you! Or as a Wall Street Journal article points out, at least start by taking a big bite of this gazillion dollar yoga sandwich, eh? After all, you started it, right? And everyone else is eating the cookies out of your jar. (is it lunchtime?) Lindsay Clinton takes [...]
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While many Western yogis perish the thought of locking down an absolute definition of yoga – why pigeon hole the practice as physical, spiritual, or religious? And discount all the crazy hybrids and spin-offs with rollerblades and 105 degree heat franchise opportunities? Not a chance! Also, that government licensing issue gets pretty sticky when we [...]
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Have you felt baffled by the Bhagavad Gita? Perplexed by the ancient texts? Join the club! Or as it so happens, a book group led by the virtual yoga community’s own demystifier, Mr. Bob Weisenberg. You may recognize his name as a frequenter commenter here on YD and across many other yoga blogs offering thoughtful [...]
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That’s what Swami Niranjananand Saraswati says:
Patna: Yoga is commonly believed to be a practice started by Sadhus and Sanyasis of India in the ancient times, but it is not true. One will be surprised to know that first yoga exercise had been introduced in Baghdad in Iraq and later in Iran and Moracco. This was [...]
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