{"id":649,"date":"2009-11-19T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-11-19T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:56:50","slug":"bikram-yoga-an-olympic-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/bikram-yoga-an-olympic-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikram Yoga an Olympic sport ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to make of this one. Apparently Yoga is going competitive in the US, and is being promoted by none other than our own Bikram Chowdhary and his wife. !  But since the essence of Yoga is completely internal, how can you judge a Yogi ?  Apparently Mrs Chowdhary knows as she is the judge and the promoter both.<br \/>\nWould you put brain sensors on to see if there are truly alpha waves being emitting (or whichever wave is emitted when the Buddhist Monks are in deep meditation).  Or do people see yoga now as form of gymnastics?  I would have thought that competition is the antithesis of Yoga<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F19%2Ffashion%2F19fitness.html#?secret=CzcY5eTdOD\" data-secret=\"CzcY5eTdOD\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to make of this one. Apparently Yoga is going competitive in the US, and is being promoted by none other than our own Bikram Chowdhary and his wife. ! But since the essence of Yoga is completely internal, how can you judge a Yogi ? 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