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Yoga News and Culture

Mystical Paths: Hindu’s Take Back Yoga

December 2, 2010

Mystical Paths: Hindu’s Take Back Yoga. From a Jewish website, another take on the *Take Back Yoga* effort. Dr. Shukla is especially interesting. He says that American yoga has been engaged in *overt intellectual property theft* for purposes of *crass materialism.* But the yoga movement in America is double-edged, for its commercial success has enabled [...]

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Deepak Chopra: Who Owns Yoga?

December 1, 2010

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 [...]

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‘Take Back Yoga’ campaign

November 28, 2010

‘Take Back Yoga’ campaign: Back where? – Faith & Reason. The capitalist Hindus are as silly as the capitalist Americans. They are afraid yoga has been co-opted – not even as some sort of colonial enterprise, but as a BRAND! Please someone help me figure this one out.

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Yoga Increases Brain GABA

November 12, 2010

Yoga linked to increased levels of a critical brain chemical The relationship between yoga and positive emotion is phenomenologically clear; now, there is a proven parallelism between yoga practice and increased levels of GABA, typically lowered in anxiety and depression. Here we again see the great mystery of the direction of causality with respect to [...]

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Hindu View of Christian Yoga

November 9, 2010

Rajiv Malhotra: A Hindu View of Christian Yoga. This excellent article by a yoga practitioner and scholar takes the point of view that yoga is in fact incompatible with certain key characteristics of the Christian mindset, especially its tendency towards historicism and body-denial.

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Yoga Corporate Criminals in Hong Kong!

October 29, 2010

13 yoga bosses snared in long arm of law – The Standard. There are obvious dangers to mixing money and yoga. Slimy gurus, get-a-job-quick schemes, *learn yoga online,* and other such abominations breed like cockroaches when the two come together. So is it any surprise that Hong Kong seems to have its own yoga Sopranos? [...]

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Arizona (?!) Embraces School Yoga

October 28, 2010

Lauding few Arizona schools for introducing yoga, Hindus urge all USA schools to launch yoga. Brought to you by the same state that will want to see your papers if you ain’t quite white enough: yoga for high schoolers. I suppose anything is possible now. But YOW – advanced yoga philosophy and the Ashtanga intermediate [...]

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College Men and Yoga

October 5, 2010

The Collegian » Yoga classes on campus help students relax. While otherwise a fairly standard presentation of yoga benefits and practice, it is intriguing that increasing numbers of men – especially in college – are beginning to take yoga. Football players, who require a good deal of focus as well as injury prevention, are beginning [...]

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Function and Symbolism of the Mat – NYTimes.com

October 4, 2010

Noticed – Yoga Mats Falling Out of Favor – NYTimes.com. The yoga mat is both a functional and a symbolic component of modern yoga practice. Symbolically, the mat constitutes a microcosm, a space sealed off from everyday life where concentration becomes possible. It also contains within it, virtually speaking, every asana session, every meditation performed [...]

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Yoga and Anxiety

September 28, 2010

Yoga may help mood, decrease anxiety — You Web News youwb.com. The precise mechanisms through which yoga exercises its beneficial effects on such psychological illnesses as anxiety and depression remain difficult to map in scientific terms. This article represents an interesting step forward. Yet even by identifying GABA levels as paralleling changes in mood apparently [...]

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