Article: Mind your body: has yoga lost its spirit? This issue, Dance Magazine begins a new monthly column on the various somatic practices that now assist the working dancer and teacher. This first column focuses an modern yoga practices and problems.

YOGA, IN ITS various forms, is an ancient tradition of physical and spiritual practices. But today in the West, it is also a billion-dollar industry that markets longevity, weight and stress reduction, tight butts and abs, amazing flexibility, and sexual endurance.

Yoga's big attraction is that it works. Five thousand years of trial and error and passing fads have been added and subtracted to achieve a total process that effectively benefits the body and all it contains as mental and spiritual energy. The word "yoga" comes from the Sanskrit, translated roughly "to yoke or to join;" its practice is meant to unite the body, mind, and spirit as one aligned unit. The ...

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