The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
The Secret History of Yoga
28 minutes Posted Jul 19, 2016 at 8:00 pm.
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Mukti Jain Campion attends regular yoga classes and enjoys its many physical and mental benefits while believing it to be the “timeless Indian discipline” so often described in yoga books. But recent research challenges this common assumption. Could modern yoga classes, as now taught all around the world, actually be the product of 19th Century Scandinavian gymnastics as much as ancient Indian philosophy?