11 Easy Ways to Meditate (Or, There’s No Such Thing As Being Bad At Meditation) Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Hindu Yamas: Ancient Resolutions for New Years. Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Yoga Won't Wreck Your Body But May Make You More Hindu. Yoga can wreck your body and make you fat -- at least according to New York Times science writer William Broad.
Between Maureen Dowd's column back in October, "How Garbo Learned to Stand on Her Head," on Broad's upcoming book, "The Science of Yoga: The Myths and the Rewards," and Broad's own piece last week, "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," Broad has taken up prime journalistic real estate to grind his axe with yoga. His conclusions about yoga, however, are premised on anecdotes about asana, not yoga, and the only thing really getting fat is the gap between the popular understanding of yoga and what yoga really is.