Yoga Yoga
Melissa Galdis bridges with Ramon. Melanie Peeples hide caption
Google pays tribute to yoga master Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar. Google hide caption
Four pregnant women sit in lotus position. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images hide caption
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga along with thousands of Indians on Rajpath, the mall of central New Delhi, for International Yoga Day. Saurabh Das/AP hide caption
Yogis in Bangalore get ready for the International Yoga Day on June 21. MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Yoga practitioners celebrate the solstice in New York's Times Square in 2011. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Those Yoga Poses May Not Be Ancient After All, And Maybe That's OK
The SmartMat is a responsive yoga mat that seeks to improve one's yoga practice. Microsensors embedded in the mat record and provide adjustments to the user in real time. Courtesy of SmartMat hide caption
If it weren't for B.K.S. Iyengar, yoga wouldn't be quite as popular in the West. This photo of the yogi, who died this week at 95, was taken in Karnataka, India on May 3, 2005. Hemant patil/Corbis hide caption
Shut up and suffer, or split? iStockphoto hide caption
Yoga may be more than just an exercise. In Maryland, doctors are learning how to use yoga instead of drugs to treat various medical problems. iStockphoto hide caption
People practice yoga at a fundraiser for a breast cancer foundation in Hong Kong. Ed Jones/Getty Images hide caption