Mats at the Ready for the Yoga Wars

Sunday HeraldJune 13, 2010

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SCOTLAND has Higland dancing, England has morris dancing, Ireland has Riverdancing. India? India has yoga ... and wants to keep it all to itself. On the face of it, this sounds pretty straightforward. But then there's yoga and there's yoga.

There's power yoga, nude yoga, laughing yoga, urban yoga and there's Morag's yoga on a Wednesday night at the community centre. For the purists, there's ashtanga vinyasa, which apparently is the real banana. But if you bend your body to just any old yoga, you could be in a tricky position, as India wants to patent the ancient art.

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Mats at the Ready for the Yoga Wars

In a bid to define what constitutes the millennia-old discipline, an Indian government body tasked with protecting the country's medicinal heritage has started filming...

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