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January 2009

Staying Hopeful for Yoga Day USA 2009

by YD on January 21, 2009

in Events,News

Well you may not have known it, but this Saturday, January 24 is Yoga Day USA! Once again there’s not much hoopla surrounding what is supposed to be the nation’s biggest yoga awareness event, BUT on a week as momentous as this we’re “hopeful” that even more people will participate and learn about yoga in [...]

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There are some lucky city workers up in Attleboro, MA! (well, we’re not sure they think so, but aanyway…) The state has given the Department of Public Health a $4,000 grant to fund exercise programs, and over 50 percent of the workers surveyed suggested yoga! The $4,000 award from the Department of Public Health is [...]

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That’s what Swami Niranjananand Saraswati says: Patna: Yoga is commonly believed to be a practice started by Sadhus and Sanyasis of India in the ancient times, but it is not true. One will be surprised to know that first yoga exercise had been introduced in Baghdad in Iraq and later in Iran and Moracco. This [...]

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On this day of history and change, a last little jab of presidential yoga humor. From our favorite canine yogi, YogaDawg, read on for a letter of thanks from President Bush, the ever dutiful yogi decider. Martha Washington For EternallyBlissfulYoga Magazine In an exclusive to EternallyBlissfulYoga Magazine, a letter from President George Bush to Sri [...]

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As an update to our post “Is Lululemon Getting Too Political with Obama-Lovin, Racially Tinged Window Displays?” Turns out we’re not crazy for posing the question… Response from the blogosphere, hyper-ballad’s blog: I’ve been lululemon’s customer for the longest time, and this ad just pisses me off. It’s really disturbing. Who are those “our children” [...]

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Yesterday’s NY Post‘s Page Six Magazine takes a closer look at the “War of the Poses” (as they call it) – the latest on the legal, and ego, battles between yogis Colleen Saidman Yee and Jessica Bellofatto. The Case: Colleen Saidman Yee (w/ Rodney Yee, accomplice) VS. Jessica Bellofatto. The Accusations: Colleen says Jessica has [...]

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Uma Thurman, Yogi in Flight

by YD on January 19, 2009

in Celebriyogis,News

New York to Salt Lake City is a long flight. Apparently Uma employed her habit of stretching her long limbs…to the delight and confusion of fellow passengers. The Hollywood star was traveling from New York’s JFK Airport to Utah’s Salt Lake City when she left her seat and began bending and stretching in front of [...]

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Big news for yoga-on-film… Enlighten Up!, the documentary following a skeptic’s journey through yoga, scored a distribution deal with Balcony Releasing and will open in select theaters starting April 1, 2009 in NYC. Finally, NY gets some love! (hopefully not a cruel April Fools joke). Launching our release, we open in New York City at [...]

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Well we’ve been chattering about this since way back in September. And while there seem to have been delays, and we never got official confirmation when we posed the question upon the November Flatiron store opening, Lululemon is indeed unleashing the Union Square outpost at 5 Union Square West as previously pondered and reported. Although [...]

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As some of you may have realized, teaching yoga is not an easy full-time job. It can be a right struggle finding enough work to pull in the cash to cover monthly expenses. We mentioned in our “Recession-Resilience: Yoga and the McDonald’s Happy Meal” post that this economy is taking a toll on peoples’ wallets [...]

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