Category: Yoga News

READING the report “Fatwa on yoga to be made known” (NST, Oct 30) has left me dazed with disbelief. I am a Muslim who practises yoga daily. Does it make me any less a Muslim? No. I practise it purely for the sake of adopting a healthy lifestyle, as the benefits and advantages of yoga are aplenty.

I WAS shocked and in awe reading your report “National Fatwa Council to make a ruling on Yoga” on Thursday. Before I state my case, I think there are some questions that need to be answered.

I WAS shocked and in awe reading your report “National Fatwa Council to make a ruling on Yoga” on Thursday. Before I state my case, I think there are some questions that need to be answered. > What chanting and mantra are they talking about? I …

It seems like everybody and their dog is doing something with the word ‘yoga’ attached to it these days and to the ancient yogis, some of those things would seem pretty strange indeed! …

Juvenile detention centers around the country are offering yoga as a form of rehabilitation for inmates. Youth Radio’s Ankitha Bharadwaj reports that yoga is the new recreation yard.

New York, Oct 30 (IANS) Famed fashion designer Donna Karan has sponsored a major project at a premier hospital here to clinically prove that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation in treating cancer.Karan …

New York, Oct 30 (IANS) Famed fashion designer Donna Karan has sponsored a major project at a premier hospital here to clinically prove that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation in treating cancer …

George Town (Malaysia), Oct 30 : The National Fatwa Council in Malaysia is expected to make its stance clear about Muslims practicing yoga soon, after a leading Muslim professor at a Malaysian University preached to his community men to shun yoga, saying that its origins could be tracked to Hinduism.

Thus, when a student is straining to open his hamstrings, take the opportunity to teach a deeper lesson. Remind him that his hamstrings resist because they are not familiar with the opening. When we…

Practice A double blind study published in the December 2005 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that 3 months of a specifically designed yoga practice gave significant relief to subj…