Deepak Chopra: Who Owns Yoga?.
Deepak’s take on yoga in the HuffPost is commendable. However, he certainly is bound to get some serious flak about identifying yogic and vedic culture, and for his de facto decoupling of yoga and hinduism. Many thinkers, Feuerstein and Swami Satyananda foremost among them, have set up a model of yoga as quintessentially non-vedic, traceable to the Indus valley seals and the *hidden,* female- and sexuality-friendly tantric tradition. However interesting this view may be, there is no hard historical evidence to back it up. Have to go with Deepak on this one. And for a superb perspective, check out my Indian yogi friends’ Shailendra and Kireet’s comments on this issue on my FB page (Jeff Durham). Never heard anything wiser on the issue.
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