DEBRA DIAMOND (Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler Galleries): It’s an incredibly malleable term, yoga. Which, you know, in Sanskrit means ...

Yoga is practised in the West as a form of physical culture, with postures borrowed from Hatha Yoga and optional spiritual sprinklings for stress relief. In this new series, I will explore the true, ...

In her Jan. 14 On Faith column, "Different positions on the meaning of yoga," Lisa Miller called yoga teacher Eddie Stern's approach "more closely aligned with those of religious conservatives than ...

India, June 19 -- "Why is yoga so important for me?" a youngster may ask, on being prodded to earnestly take up yoga. And in order to answer his query with wisdom, we ourselves need to know the answer ...

The Yoga Alliance (Yogaalliance.org), a national education organization that registers qualified teachers and schools, just released the results of its 2010 Yoga Insight Survey, which found that half ...

Despite the peaceful image yoga inspires, it’s a dog-eat-Down Dog world in the industry. In February, Twitter erupted when a blogger called yoga a pagan ritual. That wasn't too long after a professor ...

Suketu Mehta is the author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" and is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. Updated March 1, 2012, 3:14 PM I live in downtown New York City, ...

On June 21, India broke two world records as thousands led by Modi performed yoga at Rajpath, a ceremonial boulevard in New Delhi. Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the UN General ...

The first use of the root of word "yoga" is in hymn 5.81.1 of the Rig Veda, written in the Vedic period, between 1700 B.C. and 500 B.C. The hymn is a dedication to rising sun god in the morning ...