MY COUNTRY ON YOGA

Yoga has become woven into our culture’s fabric.

My government subsidises yoga centres, and provides an excellent and thorough yoga teachers program.  Classes are inexpensive or free, depending on the student’s tax bracket.  We have a nation-wide campaign that encourages our citizens to engage.  There are incentives if patients with chronic illness attend and also for students who attend more than three times per week, as this greatly reduces the cost of our stellar health care system.

10 Tips to Begin Your Yoga Practice. Weight-Losers and Tree Huggers Welcome!

Before landing my country’s “top job”, I taught yoga for quite a few years. The expectations of first-time students coming to a yoga class were as varied as they were. Weight-Loss and New-Year-Resolution folks. The Show-offs and the Born-Again-New-Ager-Tree-Change crowd. To sum-up: as they say in that other country that is so brilliant as to invent such an expression, it was a whatever tickles your fancy kind of scene.

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Yoga: A brief history

You see, a while ago a friend of ours, Vishnu, leaked the yoga teachings to the world: through an unborn baby in the 1500’s who, after learning the whole Ashtanga series while in the womb, was born as Vamana Rishi.

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