Hindus worldwide celebrate Shivaratri
Hindus around the world just celebrated Shivaratri, a night dedicated to the worship and celebration of Lord Shiva.  The festivities and worship go on all night, as this is the night - according to some - that Lord Shiva performed the Tandava, the dance of primal creation, preservation, and destruc

posted 1:05:14pm Feb. 21, 2012 | read full post »

Practicing Yoga in Prison Cell
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 piec

posted 10:19:13am Feb. 10, 2012 | read full post »

The Rubin Museum screens The Bhagavad Gita
Yesterday, I attended a screening of a documentary entitled The Bhagavad Gita at the Rubin Museum in NYC.  Perhaps it's the years of reading distorted descriptions about Hinduism and its texts that tend to make me weary of these types of efforts, but I decided to hop on the subway and view the docu

posted 5:10:50pm Jan. 26, 2012 | read full post »

Comments from India on yoga in the West
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/2012/01/1

posted 1:58:42pm Jan. 17, 2012 | read full post »

How Poor Analysis Can Wreck Your Yoga
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 n

posted 1:20:41pm Jan. 07, 2012 | read full post »