What Have We Done To Yoga?

What Have We Done To Yoga? | RamYogasutra.com
Each summer solstice, thousands of yoga aficionados, and some novices, gather at Times Square to perform varying sequences of āsanas, or postures.

“If you find your heart needing to expand into 42nd Street, contract the shoulder blades,” advised a celebrity yoga instructor, her amplified words spreading through the square. There is beauty in such images—the body as extensive as a longing love, the mind as even as a length of breath—just as there is also wishful thinking. “We’ve turned Times Square into a temple … Yoga is magic!” gushed an instructor who had her students doing the “cosmic wave.” The event encapsulates what is best and worst about yoga today: its demotic, everywoman appeal and its fluffy, saccharine spirituality.


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