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How yoga has a secret history

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Like millions of people across the world, Mukti Jain Campion attends regular yoga classes and enjoys its many physical and mental benefits while believing it to be the "timeless Indian discipline" so often described in yoga books. But is that really the history of the yoga practised globally today? First broadcast on The Secret History of Yoga, 17 June 2016.

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