NEW DELHI (RNS) The Supreme Court of India is weighing whether yoga has a religious element, as it decides if public schools may teach the ancient discipline in the country where it originated.

On a balmy Saturday afternoon in the Arts District, a crowded room of yogis lunges forward in unison, each person pressing one hand against the floor while reaching the other toward the ceiling.

(RNS) — Whether for sport or spirituality, practitioners say, yoga has solidified itself as part of the fabric of the United States. NEW YORK (RNS) — Tomorrow (June 21), on the longest day of the year ...

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For many living on the Indian subcontinent – and anyone who has been to a yoga class – inhaling for a couple of seconds and then slowly exhaling is practicing a technique known as pranayama, Sanskrit ...

If you’re thinking about trying yoga in 2019, you have plenty of company. More than 14 percent of American adults practice yoga, according to a new study released by the CDC that analyzed data from ...

Not long ago, a longtime New Yorker summed up the appeal of India’s yoga- and Ayurveda-focused Shreyas Retreat better than I ever could. She had found the retreat six years earlier, when she asked her ...

The Syro-Malabar Church's doctrinal commission in India said the theology of yoga does not align with the beliefs of Christianity, in a report posted by the Mananthavady diocese. The group claimed ...