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    NY Times on Yoga

    What is Here, is Elsewhere. What is not Here, is Nowhere.

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    Re: NY Times on Yoga

    namaste

    The same man, William J Broad wrote a book called The Science of Yoga:
    The Risks and the Rewards
    . I heard him interviewed on NPR and for me
    the most interesting thing in his book is that there are certain asanas which
    carry a much higher risk of serious injury than others and that there are
    ways of modifying the more dangerous ones to derive their benefits safely.

    Hari Aum


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    Re: NY Times on Yoga

    Interesting. I have the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Satchidananda. I did not know he did this. The article does seem to reflect positively on the asanas. Maybe I should start doing them to get my blood flowing.
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    William J Broad has caused a lot of controversy in the yoga industry. He is a proponent of medicalising yoga practice. This development could potentially destroy the business of the yoga entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs have benefitted immensily from Indian knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga chikitsa, all the research that has been done in India (and elsewhere) to further investigate these benefits scientifically and the effort that has been put fort by yoga revivalists like Swami Kuvalayananda, Krishnamacharya, Shivananda etc. The idea that the west would do the same and scientifically investigate yoga and even make it an integral part of its health care system makes a lot of yoga capitalists very nervous. They would rather keep yoga therapy in the obsurity of alternative medicine and thus unaffordable for many people who could benefit from it.
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