Millions of Americans practice yoga as a workout, a spiritual exercise or a combination of the two. Those who wonder if their pigeon pose or sun salute carry centuries of Hindu tradition from India to ...

A trailblazer in the world of yoga, Indra Devi was born as Eugenie Peterson in Latvia (then Russian empire) in 1899, she became known as the "First Lady of Yoga" for her pioneering efforts in ...

Millions of Americans practice yoga as a workout, a spiritual exercise or a combination of the two. Those who wonder if their pigeon pose or sun salute carry centuries of Hindu tradition from India to ...

That yoga pose you've been practicing may not be as ancient as you thought. In fact, journalist Michelle Goldberg says that most of the poses that we do in modern yoga classes have no antecedent ...

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, 322 pages Indra Devi, “the woman who helped bring ...

Indra Devi, one of the first Western women to study yoga in India, who later taught it to several Hollywood stars, has died. She was 102. Devi, who at 99 was still performing demanding yoga poses, ...

Indra Devi, 102, the daughter of European nobility who introduced the ancient discipline of yoga to the Kremlin leadership, Hollywood stars like Gloria Swanson and students in India, died Thursday in ...

Indra Devi, Russian-born actress-dancer who popularized yoga in America and taught numerous Hollywood thesps, died April 25 in Buenos Aires, where she had lived and taught since the mid-1980s. She was ...

Last month, a yoga class at the University of Ottawa that was cancelled amid accusations of cultural appropriation made a quiet return to the class schedule. The controversy initially erupted in ...

The history of yoga practice is primarily a history of men. While today’s superstar female teachers may salute the sun in spandex and headsets, women have been disciples rather than leaders in the ...