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Article: Fear of yoga: today, the Hindu practice of health and spirituality is loved by everybody--including the press, But it took a couple of centuries to get there.
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media's slings and arrows, its leotard still as pristine as its reputation. Everybody loves yoga; sixteen and a half million Americans practice it regularly, and twenty-five million more say they will try it this year. If you've been awake and breathing air in the twenty-first century, you already know that this Hindu practice of health and spirituality has long ago moved on from the toe-ring set. Yoga is American; it has graced the cover of Time twice, acquired the approval of A-list celebrities like Madonna, Sting, and Jennifer Aniston, and is still the go-to trend story for editors and ...
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