Yoga tourism
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Yoga tourism is travel with the specific purpose of experiencing some form of yoga, whether spiritual or postural. The former is a type of spiritual tourism; the latter is related both to spiritual an
Some yoga tourists travel to India to become certified yoga teachers, like these participants in a 200-hour Ashtanga yoga teacher training in Rishikesh.
Tourists practising Virabhadrasana I in Poon Hill, Nepal
The governor of Tamil Nadu state, the Indian minister of tourism, and the yoga guru Jaggi Vasudev promoting yoga in India on the 3rd International Day of Yoga in 2017 at the Isha Foundation, Coimbatore. A large statue of the god Shiva as Adiyogi (the first yogi) is in the background.
A yoga holiday in Fiji
Modern yoga gurus
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Modern yoga gurus are people widely acknowledged to be gurus of modern yoga in any of its forms, whether religious or not. The role implies being well-known and having a large following; in contrast t
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced The Beatles, and the West, to gurus, mantras, and meditation in the late 1960s.
The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. Watercolour, Punjab Hills, India, 1740
Yogendra, an acknowledged pioneer of modern yoga, rejected the traditional guru role in favour of something more modern.
Ardha Chandrasana Yoga Asana Nina Mel