• According to Yoga Journal’s latest Yoga in America survey, conducted by Sports Marketing Surveys, 20 million Americans currently practice yoga (up from 15.8 million in 2004).
• The wild success of Eat, Pray, Love—over 10 million copies sold worldwide—shows that people enjoy learning about a woman’s spiritual pilgrimage that led her to India.
• Millions of people go on pilgrimage to India every year.
• Over 40 million people in the US are taking antidepressants, and just from and from 1999 to 2012 the number of people taking them nearly doubled; people are searching for a way out of their pain and suffering.
