{"id":15529,"date":"2017-05-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/05\/15\/the-only-place-in-the-us-you-can-get-a-master-s-in-yoga-studies-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:00:00","slug":"the-only-place-in-the-us-you-can-get-a-master-s-in-yoga-studies-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/05\/15\/the-only-place-in-the-us-you-can-get-a-master-s-in-yoga-studies-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Place in the U.S. You Can Get a Master&#8217;s in Yoga Studies? Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-yoga-masters-degree-20170513-htmlstory.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, May 13, 2017 (LA Times): Ana Funes is a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). She sat under a whiteboard she&#8217;d filled with flow charts and Sanskrit. Her graduate students had just spent more than an hour examining the &#8220;Hatha Yoga Pradipika,&#8221; a 15th century manual. Now they were eager to understand how the ancient text could be translated into physical experience. They were studying to earn a master&#8217;s degrees in yoga studies in the only university in the country where it is possible to do so. Forty-million people in America say they do yoga &#8212; twice as many as five years ago &#8212; but how many of them really learn about what it is and where it comes from? It&#8217;s an important area of study, says the practice&#8217;s few (but growing number of) scholars.<\/p>\n<p>At LMU, studying yoga takes two years and is more in the books than on the mat. Five professors &#8212; two full time, three part time &#8212; lead about 30 students through numerous disciplines. Students study health sciences. They learn Sanskrit in order to read the &#8220;Yoga Sutras,&#8221; the &#8220;Upanishads,&#8221; the &#8220;Bhagavad Gita&#8221; in their original language. They grapple with Eastern philosophy and numerous Indian theologies.<\/p>\n<p>Much more of this interesting article at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, May 13, 2017 (LA Times): Ana Funes is a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}