In an effort to introduce yoga to shool children, Tara Guber has eliminated the chanting and translated Sanskrit words into kid-friendly English.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Officials target Bikram Choudhury's studio. The magnate accuses the city of harassing him.

As Susan Bordenkircher sees it, Christians for too long have kept yoga on the mat.

Medicos faced with patients all praise for yoga and questioning allopathic cure after baba's camp

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.

Inside the makeshift yoga studio, a large cross hung on the wall.

Practice a spiritual stretch?

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).

With yoga becoming increasingly popular in China, a yoga exhibition planned here will feature Indian trainers.

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.

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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