Downward dog, child’s pose, warriors one, two and three – these are all yoga poses we have come to love and recognise quite easily. But behind each Anglicised name is the original Sanskrit term, which ...

The Durbar Hall, brightly painted in Jodhpur blue and enveloped in stained-glass windows, was packed to capacity. The audience represented many nationalities, but they were bound together in their ...

DEBRA DIAMOND (Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler Galleries): It’s an incredibly malleable term, yoga. Which, you know, in Sanskrit means ...

Want to work harder towards awakening your spirituality? Opt for Karma yoga. This yoga focuses on achieving ultimate harmony. Deeply rooted in Indian philosophy, this practice has transcended time. It ...

The first use of the root of word "yoga" is in hymn 5.81.1 of the Rig Veda, written in the Vedic period, between 1700 B.C. and 500 B.C. The hymn is a dedication to rising sun god in the morning ...