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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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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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Uh oh, it’s a rumble! Here’s the yoga beef:
- Professor Aseem Shukla says: Yoga is Hindu, and it’s a total sham Western fools don’t recognize!
- Deepak Chopra says: What you talkin’ bout, Shukla? Yoga did not originate in Hinduism, it’s so way older than that.
If you haven’t read the comments over at Professer Aseem Shukla’s [...]
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India says no more of this patenting yoga rubbish. D’ya hear that Bikram?
We reported at the beginning of the year India was already headlong into an effort to “preserve” their history of yoga, and even going so far as to open a Yoga Museum in Mumbai. To further the efforts, a team of 200 scientists [...]
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