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Indian students ignore fatwa for mass yoga session

NEW DELHI // Despite a fatwa issued by Muslim religious scholars against a mass yoga session, thousands of school pupils went ahead and performed the exercise yesterday. Three scholars from the state of Madhya Pradesh accuse [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Yoga group offers micro-loans to Indian women

zBetter breathing, increased flexibility and reduced stress. Those are just a few of the benefits some yoga fans say they receive from the practice. Now, they are using the exercise as a way to give back to the country where it originated [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Indian yoga guru sues student for copying technique

A multi-millionaire Indian yoga guru in the US is suing his former student for over a million dollars for copying his unique 'Bikram Yoga' style of exercises that involve workouts in a 105 degree-fahrenheit room. Kolkata-born B [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Yoga camp conducted at The Indian Express office

Chandigarh People from all walks of life, including children, youngsters, women and senior citizens, participated in the Yoga Camp, organised at The Indian Express’ office, in Sector 6, Panchkula. Around 650 persons, participated in [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Indian girl world's youngest yoga trainer

An Indian girl, Shruti Pandey, who is just six years old, has become the youngest yoga trainer in the world. The bendy youngster has been teaching adults at an ashram in Jhunsi for the last two years. Her trainer, Hari Chetan, 67, set up [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

MP wants compulsory yoga in Indian schools

An MP in India is lobbying for a law that will make yoga compulsory in the country's junior schools, where he says it will help with discipline, fitness and dealing with "computer-related stress". Satpal Maharaj, 59, from t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

A Canadian yoga teacher traces her Indian roots

Shobha Rae had two missions when she came to India from Canada - complete a yoga teachers' training course and seek out her relatives for whom she had launched a search four years ago. For Shobha, freedom of information (equival [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Indian guru brings yoga to tiny Scottish island

India's top television yoga guru drew hundreds of followers to a tiny Scottish island, turning it into an unlikely pilgrim centre in the windswept Firth of Clyde. Swami Ramdev, who has a wide following among millions of middle-class Hindus, [...]