View From The Right: Politics of yoga | The Indian Express
The editorial in Organiser, “Shirshasana with political glasses on,” comments on those leaders who “preferred either to boycott Yoga Day or uproot it from the Bharatiya roots”. It says “some people with so-called secular and anti-Modi glasses chose to stand on their head in protest” against the Yoga Day. The Bihar government “distanced More...
Yoga turns the tide for businessman – The New Indian Express
KOCHI: Some two years back Gary R Markham, 55, the chief executive of LSG, a UK-based tech company which has a big centre in Infopark, Kakkanad, was finding life pretty stressful. Lot of changes, he says, were More...
Indian Embassy in Bangkok hosts yoga workshop by RSS pracharak | The Indian Express
RSS pracharak and international joint coordinator of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), V Ravi Kumar Iyer, conducted a yoga workshop at the Indian Cultural Centre, a unit of the Indian Embassy in Bangkok, on Tuesday. Iyer, More...
Scientists Discover What Meditation Does To Your Gut & Your Brain | Collective-Evolution
Numerous studies have indicated the many physiological benefits of meditation, and the latest one comes from Harvard University. An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital More...
The Science Is In, And Meditation May Be The Next Big Business Opportunity – Forbes
Gary Vaynerchuk, the vocal social media entrepreneur, says meditation is going to be the “next big business wave.” And why shouldn’t it be? Increased creativity, improved focus, reduced stress and anxiety More...
Kids Like These Are Why Carl Sagan Said Reincarnation Deservers Serious Scientific Study | Collective-Evolution
Reincarnation is a fascinating subject that has remained on the fringe of scientific study for too long. Fortunately, it has recently begun to attract serious interest from the scientific community. Decades More...
50,000 yoga professionals to be certified in 3 years – The Hindu
Standards in services sectors will soon be made a critical component at the levels of the Union and the State governments with particular focus initially on yoga and healthcare, says the Commerce Ministry. In a More...
Houston celebrates Yoga event at NASA Space Centre | Business Standard News
Hundreds of American yoga enthusiasts rolled out their colourful mats, twisting their bodies and performing ‘Surya Namaskar’ in front of the space shuttle at NASA’s landmark Johnson Space Center More...
Sunset battle of the Hindus | DailyO
Among other things, the Renaissance in Europe witnessed the revival, restoration and dissemination of the ancient Greek and Roman traditions chiefly in the fields of art, literature, epics, and other cultural elements. This More...
How new-age ‘gurus’ turned yoga into a business, distorted its Hindu roots
An unfortunate but widespread phenomenon today with regard to several fundamental aspects of Hinduism is that we now need to produce elaborate evidence for things accepted as evident truths, handed down by Bharata’s More...