Consider some incredible statistics: * 20.4 million Americans practice Yoga, compared to 15.8 million from the previous 2008 study. * Practitioners spend $10.3 billion a year on Yoga classes and products. * Of current non-practitioners, 44.4 percent of Americans call themselves aspirational yogispeople who are interested in trying Yoga.

Hard to believe now, but yoga was once considered heretical, and even dangerous

Just What is Yoga? It is essentially: 'a practice involving intense and complete concentration upon something, especially deity, in order to establish identity of consciousness with the object of concentration; it is a mystic and ascetic practice, usually involving the discipline of prescribed postures, controlled breathing, ... 'a Hindu theistic philosophy teaching the suppression of all activity of body, mind, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and attain liberation.'

The purpose of Yoga is to connect the individual energy with the universal energy, or put another way, to connect the individual being to its sourcethe Supreme Being." NOT the Biblical God, but a 'Force' thought of as being the Oneness with the Universe.

Kundalinithe Energy Behind Yoga. When the power of love Replaces the love of power Man will have a new name: God.15 Man becomes God? According to Chinmoy, yes!

Chinmoy likened kundalini arousal (varying states of demonic possession) to a 'game' that is to be 'played' between Shakti 'The Mother Power' (a Hindu goddess) and the adept who seeks to manifest kundalini.