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Today is the final hurrah for the week-long Bali Yoga Festival in Indonesia. (cheers from the YD gallery). Did you go? Why didn’t you take us?? Anyway, Fest organizers set their sites on raising awareness and promoting “spiritual tourism” in the face of a looming fatwa, and overall it proved to be a success - [...]
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Ok so which one of you misanthropes thought Indonesia wasn’t serious about yoga? Cause they are SO serious. And now they have the obligatory foundation to prove it! The Bali Yoga Festival has been a success so far and a highlight to yesterday’s festivities was the announcement of the inception of their first yoga association. [...]
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Boy the air seems a little thick with gloom today, eh? let’s see if we can’t cheer us up with some news bits positivity.
Belinda Carlisle Go-Go’s to Yoga (heh): Former Go-Go’s pop star, Belinda Carlisle (remember her? she had some big solo hits in the 80s too) is currently enjoying stress-free prep for Dancing With [...]
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The Biggest Yogi for Weight Loss: Last week on the NBC reality show The Biggest Loser, housemates explored the the effects of yoga for weight loss, and the popular realization that yoga is harder than it looks. We’re not regular viewers of the show, but the clip of show trainer Bob Harper encouraging the group [...]
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More news from the far east: Muslims in Indonesia are basically ignoring the latest fatwa on yoga (and smoking) with an air of “Who cares?”
[regarding the smoking ban for minors and pregnant women]
It didn’t matter that the clerics were providing sound health guidance. The council of clerics that interprets Sharia, or Islamic law, for the [...]
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According to an article in today’s TIME, the Indonesia yoga ban doesn’t seem to be flustering too many yogis in the country as classes continue without much of a hitch.
Indeed, women like Evita Dwiandiya, another student at Jakartadogyoga, say they will continue to attend their weekly yoga classes. “This is not a mass movement or [...]
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In light of recent yoga ban news in Indonesia, the world’s foremost yog spokesguru Swami Ramdev has been quoted in his support of a non-religion encroaching practice. While some Islamic scholars and government officials say just do yoga without the chanting, Ramdev goes the fill-in-the-blank route:
Yoga guru Swami Ramdev had earlier said that one could [...]
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The outcome of the big fatwa meeting this past weekend basically echoed the conclusions drawn from the Malaysian ban last November: Yoga is OK as long as it is strictly for exercise. So, no chanting. Needless to say, yoga teachers in the region are not thrilled, although considering the circumstances we see this as somewhat [...]
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The last we heard of the looming Indonesian yoga ban was in early December 2008. And now it seems the top Islamic body in the country will be meeting this weekend at the National Edict Commission meeting, to debate the corruptibility of yoga on the world’s largest Muslim population (approx. 85 percent of the 226 [...]
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In light of the recent Malaysian yoga fatwa, the ensuing uproar, and the subsqequent slight backpedaling, Indonesia’s top Islamic body is now considering their own yoga ban.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top Islamic body says it will consider banning Muslims from practicing yoga.
Cleric Ma’ruf Amin said Thursday the Ulema Council was trying to determine if the [...]
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