(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 ...

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 ...

On a balmy Saturday afternoon in the Arts District, a crowded room of yogis lunges forward in unison, each person pressing one hand against the floor while reaching the other toward the ceiling.

Yoga, as practiced in the modern Western world, is exercise. But it can be practiced as much more than exercise—that's what makes it yoga. It's also what makes questions about whether yoga is cultural ...

India has its first ‘yoga czar,’ Shripad Yesso Naik. His official title is “Minister of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy” (AYUSH) and his appointment is part of Narendra ...

Downward dog, child’s pose, warriors one, two and three – these are all yoga poses we have come to love and recognise quite easily. But behind each Anglicised name is the original Sanskrit term, which ...

Reporting from Mumbai, India — Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Victorian-era headquarters of one of India’s largest rail networks through which more than 600,000 passengers travel every day, is not ...

Roll out your yoga mat and take a deep breath: today is the second annual International Day of Yoga. And the country where the ancient practice originated, India, is leading the celebrations. Prime ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) India’s school policy considers yoga an integral component of physical education. But the court has expressed caution, and is considering arguments that yoga has a religious component. NEW DELHI ...