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Atlantic article traces US yoga's spiritual roots
Hindustan Times··2 Sept
A Hindustan Times piece cites a recent Atlantic article on how yoga changed in the US. It moved from a spirituality-linked practice to part of the fitness and wellness world. The story revisits what happens when physical poses become yoga's most visible part. Religious-studies professor Andrea R Jain said some Americans in the late 1960s sought something radically other.
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What It Means For You
- Readers may know yoga through poses such as downward dog, warrior or child's pose.
- The Atlantic piece asks what happens to yoga's quieter side when movement dominates classes.
- Yoga developed in ancient India with connections to several religious and philosophical traditions.
What's Happening
- Hindustan Times summarises the Atlantic article on yoga's US transformation.
- The piece says yoga's history is wider than movements seen in a modern class.
- Jain's quote appears in the Hindustan Times summary of the Atlantic story.
How Yoga Reached American Studios
- The article notes yoga cannot be reduced to a modern fitness routine.
- Late 1960s interest linked yoga with spirituality for some American practitioners.
- The Hindustan Times piece frames the Atlantic story as revisiting an older question.
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