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Healthy America: People take yoga with gusto, fuel a $27 bn industry (view pics)

Washington: From US First Lady Michelle Obama to stressed out executives to students to housewives, some 20 million people in America are practising the ancient Indian art of yoga, fuelling a $27 billion industry.Michelle Obama,

PTI Updated on: January 24, 2014 11:03 IST


Through masterpieces of Indian sculpture and painting, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" explores its rich diversity and historical transformations with more than 130 objects borrowed from 25 museums and private collections in India and the US, as also Europe.

The Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) system, the largest such in New Mexico with about 90,000 students across 140 schools, plans to offer yoga to its students as a means of physical exercise right from the elementary school level.

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