Last month, the Take Yoga Back campaign of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) got a leg up when the New York Times ran an article about their movement to reclaim yoga’s soul. The campaign aims to ...

Chakras. The “third eye.” Sanskrit chanting. “Om.” These staples of many yoga classes are a turnoff to some Christians. But a Florida class combining yoga and Pilates with Christian prayer and ...

For centuries in India, yoga has been a practice rooted in the Hindu faith. Today, it is a massively popular fitness tradition in the United States, part of a wellness lifestyle for some 15 million ...

Yoga enthusiasts perform Surya Namaskar as part of Yogathon 2014 at the Art of Living headquarters on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, in 2014. (Aijaz Rahi / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm ...

I don't care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud—as is the custom—an inspirational passage on which to meditate. Recently, ...

The Hindu American Foundation has started a “Take Back Yoga” campaign as an attempt to educate the American public on yoga’s Hindu roots. The group is not asking for yoga practitioners to become Hindu ...

ATCHISON, Kan. — A Catholic college in northeast Kansas plans to rename a yoga classes and change the content to ensure the class focuses only on physical exercise and not spiritual or cultural ...

Andrew Wagner and Ed Malys wrote letters to The Forum (Dec. 22) to say that yoga is not part of a religion. They are mistaken. All who study the philosophy of religion know that yoga is an integral ...

LOS ANGELES – Yoga taught in a San Diego County school system is not a gateway to Hinduism and doesn't violate the religious rights of students or their parents, a California appeals court ruled ...