Religious and political officials from India's eastern state of Orissa have written to the Indian government and the U.S. embassy seeking action against California-based cafepress.com for selling intimate apparel imprinted with Hindu deities. The protesters are seeking an apology and...
On January 28, the New Mexico State Senate will open to the sound of Sanskrit mantras. Rajan Zed will recite from the Rig Veda and Bhagavad Gita. After first reading in Sanskrit, he will deliver the English translation of the...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak about "Engaging Wisdom and Compassion" at the University of Michigan on April 19th and 20th. The two-day educational program will be held in conjunction with a public talk on environmental issues...
According to the Associated Press, the House approved a bill preventing Myanmar's rubies and jade from entering the U.S. The bill is in addition to already tough sanctions against the ruling military regime that killed peaceful protesters and Buddhist monks...
The Hindu American Foundation has organized a letter writing campaign against the destruction of Hindu temples by Malaysian state government officials. A protest march was scheduled for November 25 in Kuala Lumpur but, according to Reuters, organizers of the event...
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About 7,500 evacuees of the California wildfire went to Qualcomm Stadium where they were not only given cots, tents, water and food, but arts and crafts for children, crisis counseling, meditation, yoga, acupuncture, and AA meetings for adults. This has...
Yoga guru Swami Ramdev is against sex education in schools saying that it leads "children towards crime." "Sex education has been dragging the children towards crime and if this situation continued, they would become dreaded criminals," he said during a...
If you ever wished you could do Downward Dog with a decomposing body, you're not alone. According to the New York Times, this combination is a fantasy for some yogis. About 75 people showed up for an open casting call...
I can't think of a better way to spend a fall weekend than in Bozeman, Montana, taking a yoga for equestrians workshop. The program is run by riding instructor Annie Bolognino and yoga teacher Margaret Burns Vap. The first part...
Now you can receive a weekly installment of Nischala Joy Devi's interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, via email. Based on her book, The Secret Power of Yoga (Random House, 2007), the free service begins November 1 and will highlight 111...
Lucid dreaming, also known as dream yoga, has been used for centuries by Tibetan Buddhists and Taoists to reach enlightenment. The practice begins with recognizing that you are dreaming and then sustaining that awareness. Next, you learn to control the...
No, that's not my new alias. It's the name of a one-woman show in London. In Yoga Bitch, Suzanne Morrison tells the story of her two-month stint in Bali training to be a yoga teacher. Have your heard of any...
A Mommy and Me yoga class has been banned from two church halls in England. Louise Woodcock, who was looking for a new home for her Yum Yum Yoga class, was turned away by vicars who described yoga as a...
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Swami Ramdev, who has a large following in India and is best known for teaching pranayama, is holding six-day "yoga camp" at the Alexandra Palace in London from July 27 to August 1. More than 4,000 people are scheduled to...
According to the New York Post, yoga teacher Rodney Yee and his wife Colleen antagonized Sag Harbor, NY, police by holding a class in Marine Park without a permit on July 3. "As the class started, cops descended and threatened...
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It was only a matter of time . . . During the month of June, the Salt Lake City dance company, SB Dance, performed "Yoga the Musical," a full-blown musical with an original book, music, lyrics, and choreography. The show...
According to a Washington Post article, Hillary Clinton's support team, self-described as Hillaryland, is a tight knit group of women that does yoga together once a week: "They have a personal connection virtually nonexistent among professional male colleagues. Even rarer:...
"Yoga, Inc.," the documentary about the commercialization of yoga by filmmaker John Philp, made its debut at the end of April at Hot Docs, the documentary film festival in Toronto. Clips are available at youtube.com. Although most of the controversies...
If you've ever dreamed of trademarking your own yoga style or patenting a yoga invention, you may want to work faster. The Indian government has set up a task force to try to prevent the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...