Last month, the Take Yoga Back campaign of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) got a leg up when the New York Times ran an article about their movement to reclaim yoga’s soul. The campaign aims to ...

Tuesday, June 21, will mark the eighth International Day of Yoga. This day offers an opportunity to reflect on some of the last year's public debates around yoga in the U.S., many of which hinge on ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. I don't care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud ...

For centuries in India, yoga has been a practice rooted in the Hindu faith. Today, it is a massively popular fitness tradition in the United States, part of a wellness lifestyle for some 15 million ...

Historians have shown that the countless interreligious and intercultural exchanges—between Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Christian, and other religious traditions, as well as between South Asian yoga ...

Chakras. The “third eye.” Sanskrit chanting. “Om.” These staples of many yoga classes are a turnoff to some Christians. But a Florida class combining yoga and Pilates with Christian prayer and ...

Yoga enthusiasts perform Surya Namaskar as part of Yogathon 2014 at the Art of Living headquarters on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, in 2014. (Aijaz Rahi / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm ...

Wade Singletary is a real-estate appraiser and lifelong Southern Baptist who studied religion at two Baptist colleges. On weekends, he worships at Eastside Baptist Church in DeLand and studies at the ...

LOS ANGELES – Yoga taught in a San Diego County school system is not a gateway to Hinduism and doesn't violate the religious rights of students or their parents, a California appeals court ruled ...