What Meditation Isn't

There was an article in Glamour recently about parents who want to ban yoga in school because they feel it's a religious act. I had to respond about what meditation IS and ISN'T.

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A friend recently shared a disturbing article on Facebook about parents who want to ban yoga in school because they consider it to be ‘prayer’ and religion has no place in school. The hardest part of this for me to swallow isn’t the lack of understanding about yoga philosophy, but that they’re willing to take away a valuable physical education and stress management tool from their children without seeking to understand. Meditation is not prayer, and there are other things it isn’t that I’ll get into. Read the full post on A Charmed Yogi.