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By now, we’ve all read about the benefits of teaching yoga to children.  And despite the ongoing separation-of-church-and-state debate,  some schools do offer yoga classes to their students. Another group finding the benefits of yoga are prison inmates.  I ran across  this is a beautiful piece about Gino Sevacos, an inmate in San Quentin State…

Acknowledging the “outpouring of criticism” the Broad yoga piece received, the New York Times’ India blog published a nice blurb earlier today, taking stock of some of the reactions in India to yoga in the West.  The last quote by Nivedita Joshi is spot on: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/the-great-yoga-divide/?src=rechp

I’d like to thank the The New York Times for continuing to fuel the relevancy of the Hindu American Foundation’s Take Back Yoga campaign.  The latest piece in the Times Magazine, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” by William Broad, just adds more fodder to the campaign.  Broad’s latest has naturally upset many in the…

The belief blog on CNN rang in the new year with 15 concise, faith-based predictions for 2012.  My prediction for Hindu Americans is #12 on the list: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/01/12-faith-based-predictions-for-2012/.  Enjoy!
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