Yoga: contortions, distortions and misunderstandings

I recently read an article in The New York Times about the dangers of yoga entitled How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body (http://nyti.ms/1FOROWp).

Let me play devil’s advocate for a second and say, “yes, it can”. Indeed, anything taken to the extreme, has the seeds of the opposite sown in it. And so it is with yoga too. Too much of a good thing…….

Still, the very idea that yoga is dangerous is preposterous. That said, the way in which we practice an age old science can contribute to it being a boon or a bane, so the responsibility lies on the …read more