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Yoga isn't timeless: it's changing to meet contemporary needs

  • Written by Jeremy David Engels, Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute, and Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Yoga isn't timeless: it's changing to meet contemporary needsInternational Yoga Day in London 2017 in Trafalgar SquareAnna Sunderland Engels., CC BY

On June 21, on International Yoga Day, people will take out their yoga mats and practice sun salutations or sit in meditation. Yoga may have originated in ancient India, but today is practiced all over the world.

In the United States, it was philosophers such as...

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