According to a new study released by American-based UNC at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina), Ancient Indian yoga holds potential promise for helping improve anxiety, depression, PTSD and/or the psychological consequences of trauma”. Release adds that the study “suggested that clinicians and service providers consider recommending yoga as an intervention” in addition to other […]
Churches in India Are Telling Christians Not to Do Yoga Because it Contains Elements of Hindu Spirituality
A network of 13 major Christian churches in the Indian state of Mizoram are telling their church congregations to stay away from the spiritual or physical practice of yoga. The Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee (MKHC) leader and senior executive secretary of Mizoram Synod of Presbyterian Church Reverend Lalramliana Pachuau said that the churches regarded yoga […]
Study: Hindu-Originated Yoga & Kirtan Increases Memory Better Than Brainy Mind Games
A recent study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease found that yoga, the ancient spiritual practice founded in India and is an integral part of Hinduism, is significantly better at increasing and maintaining your memory health. Nowadays, there is a common trend to download ‘Brainy Mind Game’ apps for your phone or iPad to […]
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh to Launch Yoga Amidst Artworks
The World-class Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA is launching Hindu-originated yoga sessions in its magnificent Hall of Sculpture, starting January 17, accompanied by live music by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra member. Hall of Sculpture, opened in 1907, was inspired by the Parthenon, the fifth-century BCE temple in Athens, dedicated to the virgin goddess Athena. […]
“Yoga” or “Not Yoga”- The Greatest Heist of the 20th Century
(CHAKRA) I was recently involved in a controversial group discussion over e-mail on the topic of Yoga. The contention was whether Yoga- that is widely practiced today in the Americas is really Yoga, or is it “Voga”- a term coined by a close friend to describe the practices abroad that no longer carry the essence […]
Has Yoga been Hijacked?
By Aseem Shukla Swami Ramdev has helped spread traditional Hindu Yoga Washington, US – Nearly 20 million people in the United States gather together routinely, fold their hands and utter the Hindu greeting of Namaste — the Divine in me bows to the same Divine in you. Then they close their eyes and focus their […]