Posts Tagged ‘Hindu American Foundation’

January 19th, 2011

Changing perceptions of yoga: from crime to co-optation

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In an article in the Huffington Post, Harvard historian Leigh E. Schmidt relates the Hindu American Foundation’s “Take Yoga Back” campaign to the subject of his most recent book, Heaven’s Bride, a biography of “idiosyncratic” 19th century mystic Ida C. Craddock. Schmidt uses Craddock as an example of how much the perception of yoga has changed in the past century.