OM, the word spoken in meditation and yoga practices, has existed for nearly 5,000 years. Can chanting this small word really provide a multitude of health benefits?

Yoga chant om: why do it? ‘The om serves to ritualise the time you’re spending to care for yourself and tune out of daily life,’ says Mandy Ingber, yoga teacher and author of Yogalosophy For ...

International yoga day is commemorated on the June 21, wherein the AYUSH ministry performed 21 Yoga asanas for 35 minutes at Rajpath in New Delhi last year.

On August 27, thousands practiced yoga in Bryant Park, New York, to counter negativity from Mercury in retrograde. The free ...

In a move tailor-made for controversy, the chanting of 'Om' and Vedic mantras has been included in a "protocol" for International Yoga Day sent by the government to offices, schools and colleges.

Om is a household word nowadays: It's emblazoned on T-shirts and in New Age marketing slogans, it's hummed in yoga classes. But underlying this seemingly simple mantra is a 5,000-year-old Indian ...

A fresh controversy broke out on Tuesday over the UGC’s directive asking universities and colleges to follow Ayush ministry’s yoga protocol that begins with chanting of ‘Om’ and some ...

Amid row over chanting of ‘Om’ before yoga session on International Yoga Day, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said it is not mandatory.

Otiyot Hayyot in Safed (Tzfat), Israel. Photo by Maya Wallach courtesy of Yehudit Goldfarb Rachel Solberg, 90, a yoga pioneer in Israel since 1957, says many Israeli yogis choose to end their practice ...

The Centre has proposed the chanting of 'Om' and the recital of some Vedic mantras before the 45-minute yoga session, a move which many are criticising.

OM, the word spoken in meditation and yoga practices, has existed for nearly 5,000 years. Can chanting this small word really provide a multitude of health benefits?