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Indian-American Hindu group stirs a debate over yoga's soul




By Vedaa MIRAZKAR - Date : 2010-11-29 - Country : INDE - Subject : Books & Reviews - IP Field : Industrial Property


The Economic Times today reported about Yoga.
Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous — from the physical benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals call spiritual centering. Religion, for the most part, has nothing to do with it.

But a group of Indian-Americans has ignited a surprisingly fierce debate in the gentle world of yoga by mounting a campaign to acquaint Westerners with the faith that it says underlies every single yoga style followed in gyms, ashrams and spas: Hinduism.

The campaign, labeled "Take Back Yoga," does not ask yoga devotees to become [...]

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