Rachel Held Evans

Lessons from India: Namaste

Based on my experience, the country of India hardly resembles the spiritual utopia so often portrayed by Western yoga instructors and trendy spiritualists. I visited for two weeks last August, and rather than returning rested, in touch, and connected with the universe, I came back exhausted, stinky, dehydrated, and shaken by the widespread poverty and sickness I witnessed there. While Hinduism and other Eastern religions have done little to improve the quality of life for adherents, there ar

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