Here is a link to the article on Lent and Yoga in the Huffington Post.

People sometimes tell me they find observance of Lent to be empty or old-fashioned. Or they just don’t like being given one more set of rules they are supposed to follow. When I was a child, my parents considered Christian rituals like fish on Fridays or self-denial at Lent to be quaintly anachronistic. Friday evenings when I was 11 or 12, my dad was more likely to smoke pot and my mom was more likely to turn up the radio and dance in her purple jumpsuit than to meditate or pray.

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