Michelle Goldberg on Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Those Yoga Poses May Not Be Ancient After All, And Maybe That's OK

That yoga pose you've been practicing may not be as ancient as you thought. In fact, journalist Michelle Goldberg says that most of the poses that we do in modern yoga classes have no antecedent beyond 150 years ago.

"Probably the greatest myth is when you do these poses, when you do sun salutations or the warrior poses, that that there's some sort of continuity to what yogis were doing 3,000 years ago on the banks of the Ganges, and that's just not true," Goldberg tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. 

Source: http://www.wnyc.org/story/those-yoga-poses...