RSSIt's official: September is National Yoga Month
You may have read Friday's entry about Yoga Month with some interest. But now, according to The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September is officially National Yoga Month (just like October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month). Visit http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp?year=2008#527 for more info. How, if at all, do you think this will affect the yoga community?
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Quite interesting! The government of USA does not have any problem in supporting Yoga. Probably, after a while, the rest of the world will learn Yoga from America.
Previously in India, the government of Madhya Pradesh (MP), a state government, wants to introduce Yoga in elementary schools, and later abandoned that project because of Muslim objections saying Yoga is not secular.
Posted by: Ganga Palakkattil | July 1, 2008 04:43 AM
I think this is great. The general public has a limited view of yoga as a physical exercise - The more information out there on the benefits of a regular yoga practice, the better.
I discovered the non-physical benefits of yoga after trying yoga as a physical exercise. As a yogi and psychotherapist, I use yoga techniques to help my clients manage their anxiety and depression in combination with more traditional western psychotherapy techniques. I also recommend to many of my clients that they try yoga and develop a personal yoga practice.
Katie Goode
http://www.holistictherapyoc.com
Posted by: Katie Goode | July 9, 2008 03:35 PM