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by Arif Khan, 4th April 2021.

http://prasanayoga.com/marilyn-monroe-the-complete-yoga-poses/ Arguably, no movie star past or present is as enchanting as Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Mortenson, 1926 – 1962). Her classic beauty, projection of joy and innocence, knockout measurements, marriages to great men, acting skills, and consummate control of her career arc (including its dramatic end) make her biography both tragic and triumphant. Monroe’s life was a …

Read moreMarilyn Monroe — The Complete Yoga Poses, by Eric Shaw

Besoin de prendre soin de vous ? Voici un moyen agréable de travailler sa souplesse, sans brutalité, à son rythme, tout en accédant à un apaisement mental : le yoga. Le yoga est une discipline venue d’Inde. Sa conception remonterait au IIème siècle avant Jésus-Christ. Il se développe en Occident au cours du XXème siècle.   https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/le-yoga-une-discipline-millenaire/

Written By: Lily Rothman, Liz Ronk A comprehensive survey by Yoga Journal and Yoga Alliance found that more than 36 million Americans practice yoga, with those people spending a combined $16 billion a year on accessories, classes and other yoga expenses. In addition, 80 million people who had never done yoga said they thought chances were good that they’d …

Read moreYoga’s 20th-Century Evolution, in Classic Photographs

By PANKAJ MISHRA Published: July 23, 2010 A few years ago, the pop singer Sting confided to an interviewer that a specific yoga asana, or posture, had enabled him to have sexual intercourse with his wife, the star of a line of yoga videos, for as long as eight hours at a time. “Your stomach,” he said, …

Read moreNew York Times: Posing as Fitness

By Jeffrey Gettleman Jan. 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET HIMALAYAA Human HistoryBy Ed Douglas When I first came to India, I asked one of the most erudite politicians in the Indian government a question I had been scared to pose to anyone else but that seemed fundamental to understanding the region: Why does India have so many …

Read moreNew York Times: Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers

By Scott & Ida, head teachers of Ghosh Yoga. We have discovered a complete work by Labanya Palit from 1955! She was a student of Bishnu Charan Ghosh and we were able to find a copy of her book in the National Library. In the 60 years it has been here, it has never been checked out …

Read moreUncovering the Women of Yoga

A 1945 dormitory for members of a spiritual commune in southern India is an enduring example of architecture’s capacity for nuanced experiences.

Article by Tsem Rinpoche. A curious, yet ethereal photograph of Lord Buddha has been in circulation for quite some time. Supposedly a photograph taken of Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha Shakyamuni, it raises a lot more questions than answers. According to rumours, the photograph was taken by a devotee visiting the holy site of Bodhgaya. After taking a …

Read moreIs this a Photograph of the Buddha?

Article by Richard, Hatha Yoga in America, from its introduction in Chicago back in 1893 to its contemporary proliferation across heartland USA. https://www.beezone.com/YogainAmerica/yoga_in_america.html

Article by Kendra Sand who is a writer, yoga teacher, and world traveler with an affinity for orchids, hardcover books, and dancing in the moonlight. https://www.yogiapproved.com/yoga/classic-yoga-babes/

A traditional residential school for girls in India’s holy city of Varanasi stands out for its singular history. Ma Anandmayee Kanyapeeth is like a cloistered hermitage for girls and is one of the few places in the country which caters to the educational and spiritual training of young girls. In many ways, it is a …

Read moreBBC: Inside India’s traditional school for girls

Paramahansa Yogananda: Inner Culture, October, 1935. All knowledge comes from the inner source, from the soul without limitation. How are you going to find out all the mysteries of the body and all the mystery of divine things in one short span of human life if you do not tap your inner source, which is omniscient? …

Read moreIncreasing Awareness

Inspired by Ginsberg, writer Akanksha Singh visits India’s meditation capital. Rishikesh is many things to many people. It is where the Ganges is, in some sense, the purest – having just slowed its path from the meltwaters of the Gangotri. To Hindus, Rishikesh is a site of pilgrimage. To aspiring yogis, it is the world’s …

Read moreHowling for Rishikesh

BBC News 14 may 2015 by Soutik Biswas BBC News, Rishikesh. In the wooded hills near India’s holy city of Rishikesh, a 67-year-old British man trudges gingerly through a forest. He is on his way to a derelict ashram where his musical idols once stayed. He first saw the Beatles in the summer of 1963, …

Read moreBBC: Forest swallows the Beatles’ Indian retreat

Anna writes that by the end of March 2007, one of my long-wished dreams came true – I spent a week in Rishikesh, India.  In this blog I would like to tell you the exciting story about searching and finding the ashram where about 39 years ago The Beatles, their relatives, friends and girlfriends arrived …

Read moreRishikesh, India. Back to the past

Extract from Ashrams of India Volume 2 Chundiwala Mataji Ashram Ashram of a breatharian monk who has lived without food and water since 1940, saying that the goddess Amba sustained him. Ambaji Area: Near Gabbar Hill Saint: Prahlad Jani aka Mataji (13 August 1929 – 26 May 2020). Indian Saint Prahlad Jani was formally known …

Read moreGujarat mystic Chunriwala Mataji who lived without food and water since 1940, dies in 2020

The epic story of how Buddha Bose, Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda took yoga from Calcutta to the rest of the world. In Calcutta Yoga, Jerome Armstrong deftly weaves the multi-generational story of the first family of yoga and how they modernized the ancient practice. The saga covers four generations, the making of a city, personal …

Read moreCalcutta Yoga: How Modern Yoga Traveled to the World from the Streets of Calcutta by Jerome Armstrong

By Mike Rubin. May 2 2017. Surya Botofasina, 39, a keyboardist who lives in Brooklyn, has fond memories of growing up at the Shanti Anantam Ashram in Agoura, Calif., which was established in 1983 by Alice Coltrane, the jazz pianist, harpist and widow of the saxophone immortal John Coltrane. Mr. Botofasina’s favorite times were Sundays at …

Read moreThe New York Times: Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release

This article was first published in The Mountain Path, 1988, pp. 239-45. In January 1938 Somerset Maugham, the British novelist, visited Sri Ramanashram for a few hours. The brief contact he had with Bhagavan inspired Maugham so much, he decided to use him as the model for a fictional Guru in The Razor’s Edge, a novel of …

Read moreSomerset Maugham and The Razor’s Edge