The troubled empire of Bikram yoga, aka “hot yoga”, suffered another blow last week when a new study found that practicing yoga in extreme heat can raise a person’s body temperature and heart rate to dangerous levels.
Category Archives: Yoga
CA Court Allows Yoga in Schools
Parents who were challenging a lower court ruling that allowed yoga to be taught in their children’s public school lost their appeal earlier this month when a California court ruled that the school district of Encinitas could incorporate yoga into physical education classes.
Yoga Enthusiasts Get Desperate
Andrea R. Jain
Pro-yoga folks around the world have taken a page out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and are now resorting to labels and slurs to marginalize yoga opponents and shut down debate.
Parish Presents Yoga Stations of the Cross
A California parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is hosting a rendition of the Stations of the Cross which is led by a yoga instructor and features original paintings of the stations with Jesus in yoga-poses.
More Trouble in Yoga Land
Bikram Choudhury
The vast empire of disgraced hot-yoga inventor Bikram Choudhury is showing signs of fracturing as he faces six civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault of women, and a well-known Hindu activist is calling for Pope Francis to discipline an Irish priest for linking yoga to Satan.
Conscious Conversation: As New Age As it Gets
Does Baptiste Yoga Require Baptism?
Baron Baptiste
SMJB writes: “Have you ever heard of Baptiste yoga? Does this type of yoga involve any kind of ‘baptism’ ceremony?”
Anglican Priest: “Jesus is Lord – Yoga is not.”
Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
The Reverend Dr. Ed Hird, an Anglican priest and long-time yoga practitioner, finally wrote the article he has been “intentionally avoiding” for years and admits that he now knows why yoga is so much more than just exercise.
Parents Appeal Decision That Turns Yoga into State Religion
Parents of students in a California school district who objected to the teaching of yoga in school are appealing a ruling by a judge who declared yoga to be “religious”, but allowed it to be taught anyway, effectively making it into a state religion.
