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 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...
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...
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...
Nithya Yoga joins World Yoga Day 2016 in Bengaluru, India
On International Yoga Day, June 21st 2016, Nithya Yoga joined the Unify.org movement through a global synchronized yoga experience. Thousands of yogis unified in over 500 locations worldwide to practice Yoga More...
Indian Soft Power at Work: International Yoga Day Captures Global Attention | The Diplomat
On June 21, 2016, the world welcomed the second celebration of the International Day of Yoga – constituted last year by the United Nations through a Resolution that won the support of 177 member states (including More...
International Yoga Day: Baba Ramdev beats Narendra Modi’s ‘world record’ | IBT
If you thought Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the most followed leader during the International Yoga Day celebrations on June 21, think again. India’s yoga guru and the owner of the Rs. 5,000 crore Patanjali More...
Karachi too twists and turns on IYD – Times of India
Amritsar: Joining the International Yoga Day celebrations, various clubs, independent groups and social outfits held camps in Pakistan on Tuesday to spread the health benefits of the old system of physical, mental More...
Embrace yoga to age gracefully, say experts
New Delhi–Yoga won’t give you immortality but this ancient discipline of bringing union between the body, mind and spirit can definitely help you fight age – both physical and mental, say health and wellness More...