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Sahaja Yoga (सहज योग) is a new religious movement founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava (1923–2011). [2] Nirmala Srivastava is known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (trans: Revered Immaculate Mother) or simply as "Mother" by her followers, who are called Sahaja yogis.
Fiona Fussi was born in Singapore on 25 January 1996 to an Austrian father and a Hong Kong Chinese mother and grew up in the city-state. [6] [7] [8] She attended the United World College of South East Asia, graduating in 2014.
Similar fatwas banning yoga for its link to Hinduism were imposed by Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa in Egypt in 2004, and by Islamic clerics in Singapore earlier. [338] [339] According to Iran's yoga association, the country had about 200 yoga centres in May 2014.
In 1927, Arya Samaj was established in Singapore in a shophouse in Rowell Road. [1] [2] [3]From 1942 to 1945, during the Second World War the activities of the Arya Samaj were interrupted by the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
The Singapore government has since adopted a policy of promoting religious tolerance in Singapore. [ citation needed ] However, some religions or denominations are officially banned by the government, as they are deemed as cults , such as Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unification Church , although their followers practised in secrecy in the 2010s.
Women in an outdoor yoga community class, Texas, 2010. Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of postures, often connected by flowing sequences, sometimes accompanied by breathing exercises, and frequently ending with relaxation lying down or meditation.
BKS Iyengar Centre House: Iyengar with yoga teacher Malcolm Strutt in London, 1971. Photo by John Hills. B. K. S. Iyengar learnt yoga from Tirumalai Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace, as did Pattabhi Jois; Iyengar Yoga and Jois's Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga are thus branches of the same yoga lineage, sharing many of the same asanas and other practices. [2]
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice is a 2016 history of the modern practice of postural yoga by the yoga scholar Elliott Goldberg. [1] It focuses in detail on eleven pioneering figures of the transformation of yoga in the 20th century, including Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, Pant Pratinidhi, Krishnamacharya, B. K. S. Iyengar and Indra Devi.