For the microscopic population who still believe that yoga remains the province of a small, vegan, prayer bead-wearing minority, I submit exhibit A: the collapse of Anusara Yoga, otherwise known as ...

On a humid afternoon a couple of weeks ago, John Friend comes to the door of his home in the Woodlands, Texas, a suburb 30 miles outside Houston, wearing a loose-fitting blue shirt, a pair of jeans, ...

In this week's cover story, I profile John Friend, who built his Texas-based Anusara yoga school into a global empire before losing it all in a lurid 2012 scandal and moving to Denver to start anew.

At his best, when a crowd of hundreds of students extended their limbs before him or drew deep breaths with their eyes closed, John Friend could captivate minds and shape bodies. Students spoke of ...

There is so much going on in John Friend’s life right now that an assistant once teased him about waking just before dawn and calling to ask for coffee, only to be reminded that he, Friend, was in ...

This week’s cover story profiles John Friend, who built his Texas-based Anusara yoga program into one of the country’s largest yoga empires before losing it all in a 2012 scandal. Now living in Denver ...

Leave it to American business to twist a 5,000-year-old Hindu philosophy of gentle poses into an emotional knot. In a matter of weeks, a steamy sex scandal has prompted the resignation of a yoga world ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. I am not a very good yogi. Much as I love the way that yoga – when I get round to doing it – helps me to ...

Hello Yoga! owner Allison Steele demonstrates how you can use props to get into the proper alignment at her studio in Grand Rapids. It's the start of a new year, and that means gyms across Michigan ...

Some of New York's most popular instructors also run their own upstate retreats. Anusara teachers Jackie Prete and Joe Palese offer yoga weekends at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, in Livingston Manor, New York ...