We’ve posted a few early reviews by the yoga community, and last week YD contributor Roseanne from It’s All Yoga, Baby interviewed author William J Broad about his shri-stirring book The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards. The New York Times sent us in to a tizzy with the ‘risk’ section a few [...]

(photo:Danny Kim) New York Magazine has had its share of yoga coverage, being the hip NY culture mag it is, but the latest profile on yoga teacher David Regelin, amidst the NYT yoga-wreckgate, is like pouring citrus cayenne detox cleanse on already open and sore wounds. The article “You Call That a Tree Pose?!” focuses [...]

Iyengar’s Roger Cole, Ashtanga’s Eddie Stern, and Others Including Medical Professionals Weigh In via NYT With much ado and uproar over the latest Times article entitled ‘How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body‘ (actually an excerpt from a new book by science writer William J. Broad) reactions have ranged from cautionary told-you-so’s to frustration over facts to mixed [...]

Let us start by saying articles like this one in The New York Times entitled ‘How Yoga Wrecks the Body’ always amuse us. Why? Because if you did anything, like walking on the street, unconsciously, there’s a risk of being runover by a truck, tripping and breaking a hip or biting your lip chewing gum. Just [...]