From a spiritual practice to a modern way of staying fit, yoga tells a tale of culture, politics and India's national pride.Yoga, an Indian practice believed to be between 3,000 and 6,000 years old, ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Praising yoga as “a way of life," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed poses ranging from cobra to corpse alongside a multinational crowd Wednesday at the U.N.

Not long ago, a longtime New Yorker summed up the appeal of India’s yoga- and Ayurveda-focused Shreyas Retreat better than I ever could. She had found the retreat six years earlier, when she asked her ...

United Nations — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented himself to ambassadors, U.N. staff, journalists and guests on a sea of yellow yoga mats on the north lawn of the world body's ...

He was born the son of a tea seller. He's used yoga workouts to gain influence at home and abroad. The U.S. once revoked his visa on the grounds that he was a Hindu nationalist leader guilty of ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did just that Wednesday on the North Lawn Area outside the United Nations' headquarters in New York. Modi, who stopped by the U.N. on his way to Washington, where ...