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...bodies are great. They carry our brains around wherever we want to go, sit us down with a friend for a good meal or make us feel invigorated after a run or a swim. Yoga may have origins outside our culture, but its benefits are now felt within it. The beauty of Iyengar yoga in particular is the revelation that there is a living architecture hidden in all of us that only needs unveiling. Like any architecture, it demands diamond-like precision. In fact B.K.S. Iyengar teaches that the body should flow into a yoga posture the way light fills...
...still teaches at the institute in Pune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taught his first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struck up a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi Menuhin that Iyengar brought his teachings to the West. His 1966 book Light on Yoga--with 300 pages of instruction and photographs of postures, or asanas--introduced yoga to people around the globe. Aficionados founded Iyengar groups in the U.S. as early as 1974 and slowly fed what has become mainstream Western acceptance of a 3,000-year-old Indian tradition...
Iyengar teaches practitioners to lavish attention on the body. The goal is to tie the mind to the breath and the body, not to an idea. His philosophy is Eastern, but his vision is universalist. You can incorporate Iyengar into your life and yoga practice--but ultimately we're Westerners on Western soil...
...tiger-loving godwoman is soon joined by a yoga-teaching godman who has mastered the recondite science of breaking wind unaromatically. As a journalist, Singh extensively investigated and exposed godmen, whom he regards as one manifestation of a dangerous surge of Hindu fundamentalism in India. "Religious fascism has taken roots in this soil," says Singh, a vitriolic opponent of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Is the encounter between Bhagwan, the Western-educated agnostic, and Ma Durgeshwari, the Hindu godwoman, an allegory of modern Nehruvian India being seduced by the dark forces of religious fundamentalism? Perhaps. But if Singh...
...Punjabi MC’s bhangra beats blend with Jay Z’s hip hop stylings to produce a top ten hit, bindis are the newest craze at pre-teen jewelry retailers and American movie stars take pilgrimages to India to try out the latest mehndi designs and yoga moves. In short, Indian culture has become trendy, and part of my quest to discover an Indian-American identity seeks to take ownership of the fad. In the past few years, as well, the cinematic endeavors of South Asians in the U.S. have fed our cravings for such fusion fare...