Oh, now all of a sudden everyone wants to talk about Baba Ramdev. Yes, the same Swamster Ramdev, yogevangelist who owns a piece of Scotland, has a 24/7 yoga TV channel with millions of viewers, has announced his desire to “shoot dead” corrupt politicians and has declared yoga the cure for everything, including cancer and [...]
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At 6 years old, Shruti Pandey is known as the world’s youngest yoga teacher. She rises early each day to bring the yog to sometimes 30 adults, for 5:30am classes at the Swami Brahmachand Saraswati Kaivalya Dham Ashram in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in India. One of Shruti’s fans, 90-year-old Swami Bhanu, a retired teacher, said: [...]
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“This is not yoga, it’s just a show, but to succeed in California, this is what they have to do.” Austrian yoga teacher Florian Palzinsky, 42, groaning in response to Shiva Rea’s short-shorts “writhing” in Yoga Trance Dance at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. According to reports, some 20 peeved practitioners, not feeling the [...]
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BROga® is real! We know because it’s been US Trademarked. So has Hillbilly Yoga®, Cougar Yoga™ and Metal Yoga™, along with the 2,213 other applications with the word “yoga” filed in the government’s Trademark Electronic Search System – 2,000 of which have been steadily pouring in since 2001. That’s a lot of yogapreneurs! Does trademarking [...]
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Via MSNBC Photoblog: School children attend a mass yoga session during a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 11, 2011, at the 21st International Kite Festival in India. At least 6,000 children participated, organizers said. Kinda creepy and beautiful at the same time. Also, we don’t see any stickies on those socks.
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Is India un-yoga? What? Everyone knows yoga came from India, right? Though it seems most of what we know of the practice today has come from Western influence, even in yoga’s motherland. Is this true? Don’t take our word for it. NPR has a story from Sandip Roy, an India-born American immigrant who’s just learning his downward [...]
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As doctors, healers and delegates from all over the world gather together for the 4th annual World Ayurveda Congress & Expo in Bangalore this Thursday, December 9th, we have to wonder, should we be preparing ayurvedadork.com? Ayurveda, literally “science of life” in sanskrit, grew its roots thousands of years ago in, seeping into the Western [...]
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UPDATED: Further commentary on the Hindu American Foundation’s “Take Yoga Back” Campaign, and Yoga history and connection with religion in general - from authors Stefanie Syman, Mark Singleton, Deepak Chopra, and Hindu American Foundation co-founder, Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. Via Times of India Op-Ed – “Yoga’s appeal is universal” Yoga gives cultural weight to Brand [...]
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And then the Yoga Guru said… “We need to follow the Chinese example of shooting dead the people found guilty of corruption. India cannot emerge economically till the politicians, bureaucrats and officials responsible for defrauding Indian taxpayers are punished,” said Ramdev, addressing supporters at his protest rally at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi, in response [...]
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News from New Delhi, India: Presenting…Planet Health! A yoga museum? Yes, a yoga museum! It’s actually a fully-dressed health museum designed to promote natural ways of healing like yoga and ayurveda, in entertaining digital-interactive form. Because learning about health is boring! Why study lamo texts when you can go explore digitized representations of yoga mudras [...]
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