Last month, the Take Yoga Back campaign of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) got a leg up when the New York Times ran an article about their movement to reclaim yoga’s soul. The campaign aims to ...

Chakras. The “third eye.” Sanskrit chanting. “Om.” These staples of many yoga classes are a turnoff to some Christians. But a Florida class combining yoga and Pilates with Christian prayer and ...

I don't care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud—as is the custom—an inspirational passage on which to meditate. Recently, ...

Tuesday, June 21, will mark the eighth International Day of Yoga. This day offers an opportunity to reflect on some of the last year's public debates around yoga in the U.S., many of which hinge on ...

PRINCETON, NJ – PBS World Channel, the PBS App, and PBS.org is premiering the documentary “America’s First Guru,” directed by award-winning filmmaker Raja Choudhury and produced by A Thousand Suns ...

"America's First Guru" delves into a pivotal moment in American history: the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago. It was there that Swami Vivekananda, a charismatic but then-unknown figure ...

ATCHISON, Kan. — A Catholic college in northeast Kansas plans to rename a yoga classes and change the content to ensure the class focuses only on physical exercise and not spiritual or cultural ...

LOS ANGELES – Yoga taught in a San Diego County school system is not a gateway to Hinduism and doesn't violate the religious rights of students or their parents, a California appeals court ruled ...

Alabama more than a quarter-century ago banned yoga as a "Hindu philosophy" and a "method of religious training." Now lawmakers might change that. Rep. Jeremy Gray, a Democrat from Opelika, has ...

Ever since “goat yoga” became a multinational trend, other livestock and farm animals have joined in the experience. Goat yoga and its descendants are, essentially, guided yoga classes, often on farms ...