Surya Namaskar - Youtube video by HSS USA begins by salutations to Ganesh, saraswati and to Golwalkar the founder of Hindutva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXTpTRuPiPQ
[... Yoga was adopted by the Hindu right at the beginning of the 20th century -- RSS camps still often begin with an odd militaristic version of Surya Namaskar, e.g.(for a particularly ugly militaristic example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXTpTRuPiPQ)
On the militarization of yoga by the Hindu right See e.g. Joseph Alter, "Yoga Shivir: Performativity and the Study of Modern Yoga," in Singleton and Byrne, _Yoga in the Modern World_ (2008).
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