Yoga posture practice, which is only one branch of yoga practice, is one of the surprising phenomena of contemporary culture. It is not so long ago, less than forty years, that if you were doing yoga you were a little odd. Yoga, back then, was refered do, disparagingly, with epithets such as ‘navel-gazing’ and regarded as at best a harmless but useless self-indulgence, and at worst a step towards madness already taken. Times have changed, though some of the old prejudices have not. The [...]






