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 ...

Mark Singleton receives funding from the European Research Council. From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does a yoga teacher look like to you? Are they a particular size, gender, ethnicity or skin colour? When I rediscovered yoga 10 years ago in gyms, studios and through social media, I, for one, ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Tomorrow (June 21), on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, amateur and professional yogis will line up their mats across the world in celebration of the International ...