From a spiritual practice to a modern way of staying fit, yoga tells a tale of culture, politics and India's national pride. https://p.dw.com/p/4zi5j Due to efforts ...
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On June 21, 2016, the world welcomed the second celebration of the International Day of Yoga – constituted last year by the United Nations through a Resolution that won the support of 177 member ...
Traditionally, the focus has been on two spheres of yoga practices, commonly identified as the psychophysical and the philosophical. These two spheres of yoga have been made famous over millenia, ...
India, June 21 -- From UN halls to public parks across continents, yoga has become more than exercise; it's a shared language of breath and balance. And in a fractured world, that quiet connection may ...
On Sunday morning, the Indian capital New Delhi’s broadest and grandest avenue, Rajpath, will be covered in a sea of yoga mats, with some 35,000 people expected to indulge in mass physical contortions ...
India has its first ‘yoga czar,’ Shripad Yesso Naik. His official title is “Minister of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy” (AYUSH) and his appointment is part of Narendra ...
Reporting from Mumbai, India — Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Victorian-era headquarters of one of India’s largest rail networks through which more than 600,000 passengers travel every day, is not ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Current affairs, business, security, international relations, sport. International Yoga Day, June 21, was celebrated across the ...
The government is trying to get yoga recognized throughout the world as India's cultural property. Since his election last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist and devout yoga ...
Yoga, an Indian practice believed to be between 3,000 and 6,000 years old, is one of the South Asian nation's key cultural contributions to the world. The practice — which is an interplay of body, ...