Author
Priya Raman
Priya Raman holds a masters in religious studies and has spent two decades reading and living the yoga texts. She makes Patanjali, the yamas, and yogas long history feel less like a syllabus and more like a conversation.
By Priya Raman
I propped my phone against the water bottle and got the mat in the frame, the purple so new it still had the fold-crease down the middle. Th...
Priya RamanJune 13, 20267 min read
Yoga has grown very fast in the United States over the last twenty years. A lot of people are joining classes, and a lot of people are becom...
Priya RamanJune 11, 20265 min read
The columns had seventeen rows now, each possibility branched into sub-possibilities, the pen's blue ink gone thin where she'd pressed too h...
Priya RamanJune 9, 20265 min read
A lot of people think yoga is only about physical postures. But the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali go much deeper than that. This old text is one...
Priya RamanJune 8, 20265 min read
The leather was cracked along the spine, the color of old mustard, and it fell open to October because that must have been the month he reac...
Priya RamanJune 6, 20267 min read
You've been dreaming about it — a few weeks somewhere beautiful, diving deep into yoga, and coming home with a certification that changes yo...
Priya RamanMay 7, 20264 min read
Picture this: you wake up without an alarm, roll out your mat as the sun rises, and spend the next few days completely devoted to your own p...
Priya RamanApril 17, 20265 min read