Articles — The Revealer

Feature

When Misseeing Is Believing: The Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga

February 7, 2023Philip Deslippe

Unusual experiences during meditation may help to explain why some people stay in abusive religious communities

Review

The Ubiquity of Religious Appropriation

September 7, 2022Rumya S. Putcha

A review of Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation

Review

A Black, Queer Woman Breaking from the White American Yoga Industry

June 14, 2022Vani Kannan

A Review of Jessamyn Stanley’s Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

Podcast

The Revealer Podcast Episode 2: Yoga and Emotional Wellbeing

May 6, 2020Editorial Staff

Stressed? Anxious? Listen to our podcast to learn how yoga can help!

Feature

Trauma Yoga, Goat Yoga, and Other Yoga Trends in an Age of Social Isolation

April 7, 2020Shreena Niketa Gandhi

How are people using yoga to address their mental health needs?

Field Note

Devotion in the Desert: Religion and Emotion on the Margins of Hindu and Hippie

November 7, 2016Drew Thomases

Drew Thomases reports from Bhakti Fest, an annual yoga, sacred music, and personal growth festival in Joshua Tree.

In the News: Satanism, Sacred Music, Shasta Seekers, and more!

June 11, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

In the News: Candles, Kombucha, Crocodiles, and more!

May 15, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

In the News: Paris, Witches, the CNN Apocalypse, and more!

January 26, 2015

A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.

Me and My Mat

March 29, 2013

Naturalized as an integral part of practice, the mass produced yoga mat is an illustrative example of niche commoditization...

Getting There Too Quickly:Aldous Huxley and Mescaline

January 2, 2012

By Peter Bebergal Between his 1932 vision of a sterile dystopia in Brave New World and the 1962 novel Island...

Merry Christmas to Me!

November 30, 2011

Mary Valle: All I really want for Christmas is to watch "The Exorcist" with Fr. Gabriele Amorth. I...

Yoga's Bondage

September 28, 2011

Amy Levin: For most of us, it’s hard to wrap our heads around yoga - yes, this thing everyone...

May the Truth Force Be With You

June 5, 2011

India's yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, is on a hunger strike starting yesterday, along with 100,000 of his followers...