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Having debuted at the Smithsonian Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C., the exhibit is now being shown at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, followed by the Cleveland Museum of Art. &#8220;Yoga\u2019s techniques and goals move in and through and outside of religion in very interesting and complex ways,&#8221; says Debra Diamond, an associate curator of south and southeast Asian art for the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Freer and Sackler galleries. &#8220;There are also Hindus who live in India who think that every aspect of their life is an act of yoga.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yoga\u2019s techniques and goals move in and through and outside of religion in very interesting and complex ways,&#8221; says Debra Diamond, associate curator of south and southeastern Asian art for the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s Freer and Sackler galleries. Following its Washington debut, \u201cYoga: The Art of Transformation,\u201d an exhibition on yoga in Indian art history, was at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and it will soon travel to the Cleveland Museum of Art for the summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/05\/16\/may-16-2014-the-meaning-of-yoga\/23070\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":23091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[17766,17703,1171,17688,5677,9203,9783],"class_list":["post-23070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-debra-diamond","tag-exercise","tag-india","tag-jainism","tag-meditation","tag-smithsonian","tag-yoga","topics-culture-and-society","topics-international","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-buddhist","faith-hindu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>May 16, 2014 ~ The Meaning of Yoga | May 16, 2014 | Religion &amp; 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