Yoga Fever Storms Hollywood

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oi-Staff

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 15:20

Even before the Beatles discovered, the spiritual high found in Yoga, this Indian art of living had already puckered the interest of the West, with many but especially the people in Hollywood taking a deep interest in this mystic art.

With celebrity stars such as Madonna, Sting, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston all practicing this import from the East, yoga today has involved into a large scale industry, while adding more and more of followers to its practices.

As the number of celebrities practicing yoga is growing each year, the Hindu stateman Rajan Zed had urged the yoga fascinated celebrities to also delve into the spiritual dimension of yoga.

He says, yoga is a mental and physical discipline that raises the human-soul (jivatman), while making it possible for it to unite with the universal-soul (parmatman).

The yoga practices such as "Naked Yoga" and "Doga Yoga" have lately been finding many followers in the USA. Yoga, which in its initial years in the West was largely seen as an exercise regime but this view has also seen a change.

It can be understood from the acceptance that "Naked Yoga," which sees the path to spiritual enlightenment in nudity as an act of surrender and the will to be open before the creator.

Uniting the spiritual experience between the man and the animal is the "Doga yoga", in which a dog and the owner are partner to do yoga postures together to enhance the bond between them.