How are Yoga and Peace Connected?

“The third option – Personal Transformation – has never really been tried. The closest we have come is the exhortation to “pray for peace”- but it has never really been attempted on a broad basis. The idea is that you can only end war one person at a time- when you end it in your own heart.”

Human Chain of Unity in Mumbai- December 12th, 2008

With all of the myriad reactions to the Mumbai attacks, this is the one we like the best. From the land of Mohandas K. Gandhi, we would expect no less than this- a human chain, holding hands in midday, wrapping around the city- saying “we stand for peace”.