Contemplating the Value of Yoga
While there remains a large majority of people who practice yoga, in part, to ‘get away from all that stuff,’ the idea that politics has a place in yoga (or vice-versa) is slowly gaining traction as we approach the 2012 elections. What is often not realized is that modern yoga has politics to thank in the first place. Sarala Debi Ghosal, niece of famed philosopher and poet Rabindranath Tagore, was instrumental in bringing yoga to Indian consciousness at the turn of the twentieth... Read More
