My first few months as a yoga student, I felt a bit like a foreigner in a new land. Teachers often used the Sanskrit terminology to name a pose or a concept, and I was hardly fluent in Sanskrit, an ...

Illustration of the six chakras of tantric yoga in Sanskrit and Hindi. One of eight coloured plates, drawing explicit parallels between the yogic view of chakras etc., and the medical/anatomical view ...

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Eric Wesoff arrives in gray sweats and a green T-shirt to teach his class at Devi Yoga in Menlo Park. Loyal students unfurl their sticky mats in neat lines across the hardwood floor ...