yoga

windyroad[Editor's note: you can read about Ashley's experience with biking as a "survivor" in the 2014 Closer to Free ride here. She has written more about cancer and her work with refugees here and in her KtB e-book <em>You Were Strangers: Dispatches From Exile</em>.]

Easter, A Bright Sadness

By Ashley Makar | April 5, 2015

Death is a kind of light.

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Whose ‘India First’?

By Ann Neumann | May 30, 2014

Baba Ramdev’s incarnation of history in the recent election.

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Taking the Easy Way

By Brianna Sacks | May 14, 2014

American perfectionism, meet meditation.

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Om. Hindu. Huh?

By Meera Subramanian | November 28, 2010

Yoga. Fifteen million practitioners in the United States…and not one unified position on what exactly yoga is. What a surprise! And yet the debate rages on, among Southern Baptists and Orthodox…

Killing the Buddha

Corpse Posing to ‘Beat It’

By Ashley Makar | June 28, 2009

Some of my best thoughts have happened when I was supposed to be emptying my mind. Like yesterday, lying on my back, limbs limp, ankles and shoulders trying to relax…

"So what if you can't pin down the exact history of yoga..."

Yoga for Skeptics

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | May 11, 2004

Desperate for enlightenment, Westerners flock to India. But the modern yogis’ link to a mystical ancient lineage may be mere hocus pocus.