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“Can Yoga Wreck Your Body?”

Read John Schumacher’s response
in his Newsletter…..

On January 5, 2012, the New York Times ran an article titled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” that created a firestorm in the yoga community. See Unity Woods’ website for a link to the article so you’ll know what all the hoo-ha was about andwhy I’m writing this newsletter.

As I suggested in the blog I posted right after the article appeared, we should remind ourselves that the Times is in the business of selling newspapers. I also think it worth noting that the author of the article, William J. Broad, a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior science writer for the New York Times, has a new book out.

I have since learned a little more about William Broad and what is in his article. Some of this information comes from an interview he did with Terry Gross on her NPR show Fresh Air. In the first paragraph of the article Mr. Broad says that while he was doing the extended-side-angle pose “[his] back gave way.” What he relates in the interview is that he was partnering with what he describes as a “beautiful young woman” and that he was “strutting his stuff” in the pose while they were talking to one another (!) when his back “gave way”.

So I have to ask: Did yoga wreck Mr. Broad’s body or did distraction and ego wreck Mr. Broad’s body? Read More…..