Indian yoga expert and teacher Varun Veer said ahead of International Yoga Day on Sunday that its Western form is often reduced to the physical dimension, but the millennia-old practice is also mental ...

Commentator Sandip Roy is an editor with New America Media. True confession: I am an Indian who doesn't do yoga. I wouldn't know a downward dog if it bit me. But because I'm Indian, people don't even ...

On June 21, 2016, the world welcomed the second celebration of the International Day of Yoga – constituted last year by the United Nations through a Resolution that won the support of 177 member ...

The government is trying to get yoga recognized throughout the world as India's cultural property. Since his election last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist and devout yoga ...

As India’s elderly population grows, MDNIY Director Dr. Kashinath Samagandi explains how evidence-based yoga can support healthy ageing, prevent disease, and improve well-being.

Long before Yoga became a global symbol of health and wellness, it was regarded in India as a pathway to mental clarity, emotional balance and mastery over the self - qualities indispensable to a ...

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 ...

The Sanskrit word “yoga” may mean union but, for some in India, yoga has never been more divisive. June 21 marks the first ever International Day of Yoga, an event that’s driven by Indian Prime ...

You don't expect to see world leaders getting down on all fours to perform yoga in public, let alone in a mass yoga class that draws observers from Guinness World Records. But India's Narendra Modi ...

From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga classes and products. To put that figure into perspective – this is ...