Last year Prime Minister Narendra Modi lead 51,000 people in practicing yoga asanas in Lucknow, while similar exercises took place at publi...

Contrary to popular belief, yoga does not say that a vegetarian diet is essential, although it is recommended.

The college, which is the country's first yoga college, was opened last November in Kunming and is based in the Yunnan Minzu (Nationalities...

The aim of yoga is to be able to control and discipline the mind through the movements of the body. On this all yogis are agreed.

A new biography of Indra Devi, a Russian-Indian-American émigré who’s credited with taking yoga to the West, challenges the ancient origins...

India will organise Yoga Festival in China next month to commemorate the declaration of June 21 as International Yoga Day by the UN last ye...

Yoga has become immensely popular over the years in China, which has also promoted it more like a physical exercise.

Some western experts like Mark Singleton have even tried to trace the roots of this transformation back to India; to ‘muscular’ visionaries...

White's lucidly written thesis can be summarised from the dust jacket of his book itself.

A whiff of honey stored on their shelves came to your columnist in his nightly peregrinations when he stumbled upon Tirumalai Krishnamachar...

The billionaire wine-maker Ernest Gallo understood the power of perception better than many marketers. He would pour two glasses of wine fo...

When it first appeared, B K S Iyengar's Light on Yoga created a worldwide sensation. Ten years after publication, your columnist took Iyeng...

In The Yoga Journal, Fernando Pages Ruis narrates fascinating nuggets from the biography of the renowned ‘father of modern yoga’, Sri Thiru...