Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Long before yoga became known in the West for its muscle-honing, gravity-defying postures and see-through stretch pants, it was a very different practice in ...

Long before yoga became known in the West for its muscle-honing, gravity-defying postures and see-through stretch pants, it was a very different practice in the West. In the 1920s, a swami from India, ...

NEW DELHI: Roy Eugene Davis, an American kriya yogi and direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, is in India to hold a series of lectures on meditation, yoga and holistic living. Organised jointly by ...

Cincinnati wasn’t the his first American stop. Yogananda arrived in Boston in 1920 and quickly attracted attention and adherents. He established his headquarters in Los Angeles, where he became the ...

Louise Royston, an elderly disciple, described Yogananda to me as a lecturer. “He would come running out onto the lecture platform, his long hair streaming behind him. In 1925, he crossed the country ...