Millions of Americans practice yoga as a workout, a spiritual exercise or a combination of the two. Those who wonder if their pigeon pose or sun salute carry centuries of Hindu tradition from India to ...

That yoga pose you've been practicing may not be as ancient as you thought. In fact, journalist Michelle Goldberg says that most of the poses that we do in modern yoga classes have no antecedent ...

The history of yoga practice is primarily a history of men. While today’s superstar female teachers may salute the sun in spandex and headsets, women have been disciples rather than leaders in the ...

Indra Devi, Russian-born actress-dancer who popularized yoga in America and taught numerous Hollywood thesps, died April 25 in Buenos Aires, where she had lived and taught since the mid-1980s. She was ...

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, 322 pages Indra Devi, “the woman who helped bring ...