By: Eric Metaxas (Breakpoint)
According to New York magazine, yoga studios in the city “have become as common and competitive as yellow cabs.”
What’s true of New York is true of large cities all around the country. The number of Americans practicing yoga quintupled between 2001 and 2011: from four to twenty million.
Yoga has become so commonplace that the "U.K. Telegraph" recently ran a story that, only a few years ago, would have only run in the satirical publication "The Onion." The link to the story read “How yoga with snakes cured my phobia.” In it, a woman told readers about a “Kumara Serpent Healing Class,” which she summed up as being “a bit like traditional yoga but . . . you get to handle real snakes at the end of the class.”
As the "Weekly Standard" likes to say: “not a parody.” MORE
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