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Thursday November 5, 2009
Hinduism • Yoga:
Yoga practitioners are criticizing a Missouri sales tax that applies to yoga classes, claiming they should be exempt because the lessons include spiritual elements. Some practitioners think such a tax is unconstitutional. They argue that yoga, with roots in ancient Indian meditation, is as much a spiritual practice as an exercise routine and should be exempt from taxation.
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Tuesday September 8, 2009
Yoga:
Bikram Choudhury’s sweaty techniques are a hit with yoga studios. Now he wants his cut, writes Forbes.
Yoga is big business, racking up $5.7 billion in sales last year, and Choudhury has built a cultlike following.
Recent training costs: $10,500 per session, including $3,000 for room and board in Palm Desert, Calif. At two sessions a year, each of which draw about 325 trainees, that’s $4.9 million in annual revenue. To that add 15 speaking engagements, generating about $20,000 each in ticket sales, plus another few bucks from books and dvds. “I’m a yogi, not a businessman,” Choudhury demurs.
Now he wants another revenue stream: franchising fees paid by studios that use his name.
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Saturday December 29, 2007
Yoga:
Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India.
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Monday September 10, 2007
Yoga:
Many Christians are wary of its spirituality despite assurances that it’s just exercise.
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Friday August 31, 2007
Yoga:
A children’s exercise class has been banned from two church halls because it is teaching yoga. The group has been turned away by vicars who described yoga as a sham and un-Christian.
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Thursday August 30, 2007
Yoga:
A popular online video starring a lech named Ogden has the yoga community chuckling in recognition and talking about the problem of men who come to studios in search of phone numbers rather than enlightenment.
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Monday June 11, 2007
Yoga:
The US statement follows Indian health ministry officials saying last week that New Delhi was scrutinising yoga-related patents and trademarks granted by the United States to have them invalidated.
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Monday June 4, 2007
Yoga:
For millions around the world yoga is a source of relaxation and spiritual sustenance. Not so for the Indian Government, which has worked itself into a furious twist over efforts by American entrepreneurs – including an Indian-born celebrity “yogi” – to patent the ancient practice.
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Monday April 16, 2007
Yoga:
Women with breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast may benefit from participating in a tailored yoga programme that includes gentle yoga postures, breathing exercises, and meditation, new research suggests.
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Wednesday April 4, 2007
Offbeat News • Yoga:
By the end of a recent yoga class, many participants were passed out on their mats, in a position their instructor calls the “upward facing belly pose.” That’s largely because about half the group was about to walk out on four legs: The Seattle/King County Humane Society in Washington now offers 40 minute classes of “doggie yoga.”
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Monday January 29, 2007
Schools and Religion • Yoga:
In an effort to introduce yoga to shool children, Tara Guber has eliminated the chanting and translated Sanskrit words into kid-friendly English.
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Wednesday January 10, 2007
Yoga:
A school program to fight childhood obesity that includes yoga is drawing complaints from some Christian parents in the Quesnel area in B.C.’s Cariboo region.
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Monday January 1, 2007
Yoga:
The inherent flexibility of the ancient health system of Yoga, combined with the fact that it has got nothing religious about it makes it readily acceptable across the world, experts contend.
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Monday December 18, 2006
Catholic Church • Yoga:
In 1996, when Richard Galentino walked into a Georgetown University gymnasium for his first yoga class, he was not sure what to expect. For Galentino, raised in a traditional Italian Catholic home and educated in church-affiliated schools, this breathing-and-exercise discipline long identified with Hinduism was entirely new.
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Wednesday October 4, 2006
Yoga:
Yoga’s long been touted, particularly in its native India, as a philosophical and physical system that brings calm and balance to the body and brain. But until recently in Western civilization, yoga has been on the fringes, lumped with other alternative approaches to health and well-being, such as macrobiotic diets and primal scream therapy. In the past couple of decades, though, brought into the limelight by celebrities such as Sting, Madonna and Mariel Hemingway, yoga has moved toward the mainstream.
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Tuesday July 4, 2006
Yoga:
Officials target Bikram Choudhury's studio. The magnate accuses the city of harassing him.
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Thursday June 1, 2006
Yoga:
Friday March 3, 2006
Ramdev • Yoga:
Medicos faced with patients all praise for yoga and questioning allopathic cure after baba's camp
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Saturday February 4, 2006
Yoga:
This may not be music to Swami Ramdev’s ears. But top physicians of the country believe yoga cannot be a substitute to medical or surgical interventions.
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Monday January 2, 2006
Yoga:
Inside the makeshift yoga studio, a large cross hung on the wall.
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Thursday September 29, 2005
Yoga:
Practice a spiritual stretch?
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Friday September 23, 2005
Yoga:
Yoga is undergoing something of a boom in Japan at the moment, but contorted business practices by some of the more twisted elements of society are making the ancient art a painful practice, according to Shukan Bunshun (9/22).
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Tuesday August 30, 2005
Yoga:
With yoga becoming increasingly popular in China, a yoga exhibition planned here will feature Indian trainers.
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Monday August 8, 2005
Yoga:
Relax. Breathe deeply. And feel your blood pressure rise. A Norwegian prison has had to abandon yoga classes after finding that, instead of helping inmates contain their anxieties, many became more aggressive and agitated.
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Wednesday May 18, 2005
Yoga:
A former American practitioner of yoga has perhaps for the first time cast the fitness regime in a narrow Hindu religious context and offered a "Christian alternative".
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