A South Indian church has claimed that Christian beliefs cannot go hand in hand with yoga. The Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala argues that certain poses in traditional yoga might be against ...

During the academic school year, Devika Gates can often be found in a classroom at Spokane Falls Community College teaching chemistry. When school's not in session, however, she trades the chem lab ...

A well-traveled singer and songwriter has turned entrepreneur with a new yoga and fitness studio slated to open in Woodbury later this month. The here Hot Yoga & Strength concept is the brainchild of ...

India’s Yoga guru-turned-business tycoon Baba Ramdev may not have bargained for police action when he made provocative remarks against Muslims and Christians at a recent gathering of Hindu leaders in ...

As you know, India is currently in crisis. A deadly second wave of COVID-19 is ripping through the population, causing reams of death and suffering. Amid the devastation, Indian yoga and meditation ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Tomorrow (June 21), on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, amateur and professional yogis will line up their mats across the world in celebration of the International ...

From a spiritual practice to a modern way of staying fit, yoga tells a tale of culture, politics and India's national pride. https://p.dw.com/p/4zi5j Due to efforts ...

In a county where Bollywood and cricket rule the entertainment industry, indie music is slowly making its mark in India. The rise of independent artists can be attributed to new technological mediums ...

Not long ago, a longtime New Yorker summed up the appeal of India’s yoga- and Ayurveda-focused Shreyas Retreat better than I ever could. She had found the retreat six years earlier, when she asked her ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) The Supreme Court of India is weighing whether yoga has a religious element, as it decides if public schools may teach the ancient discipline in the country where it originated.

UNITED NATIONS — Praising yoga as “a way of life,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed poses ranging from cobra to corpse alongside a multinational crowd Wednesday at the U.N. headquarters ...

(RNS) — Whether for sport or spirituality, practitioners say, yoga has solidified itself as part of the fabric of the United States. NEW YORK (RNS) — Tomorrow (June 21), on the longest day of the year ...