We mentioned a news bit just before the holidays about yoga for the homeless in NYC, adding that we hoped it might catch on. Well, needless to say we were pretty happy to read about Street Yoga, a Portland, OR based organization created to benefit homeless and at-risk youth with free yoga, because well, a [...]
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Maybe we can forget holograms, soon enough we’ll be watching TV on our contact lenses! So says futurist Ian Pearson who’s convinced this technology will be available in 10 years. The technology is already here actually, they’re just working on fitting it closer to the eye. The age of Virtual Yoga for sure. Also in [...]
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Wake Correctional Center in Raleigh, NC has seen its share of repeat customers. Dr. Steven Landau teaches yoga at the all-male, minimum security prison to hopefully slow down that revolving door. In fact, he’s performed his own micro study showing that inmates who’ve attended his yoga classes more than 4 times had an 8 percent [...]
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Shenae Grimes (the “Brenda Walsh” of new 90210) was snapped all hot and bothered after a Bikram class in LA the other day. She’s all like “…and then he said he didn’t kiss her and she was like oh no he didn’t!” You know, or something of the 19-year-old persuasion. We think she might cool [...]
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More news from the far east: Muslims in Indonesia are basically flat out ignoring the latest fatwa on yoga (and smoking) with an air of “who cares?” [regarding the smoking ban for minors and pregnant women] It didn’t matter that the clerics were providing sound health guidance. The council of clerics that interprets Sharia, or [...]
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Happy almost weekend! We’re kinda distracted and dragging our yogi toes today so we thought why not feed the diversion, it’s Friday! So here you go…enjoy your 9mins and 29 seconds of hilarious Kung Fu vs. Yoga shenanigans. PS. It’s really a movie! In case you wanted to Netflix it… Kung Fu vs. Yoga (1979) [...]
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Darren Markle is a 6-foot-1 233-pound high school senior – a pretty good stature for a linebacker, and a powerlifter who can bench press 400 pounds and squat more than 300. Impressive! But we’re cringing just thinking of all that compression on his spine! Indeed, some critics say the chap is too stiff to play [...]
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Unless you’re Uma Thurman, practicing yoga in the aisle of an airplane may catch you some heat from discerning flight attendants, not to mention the perturbed passengers you’re surya namaskaring into. Understandably though, when cramped on an airplane for hours all you want to do is shimmy around and stretch it out. Seriously, anything longer [...]
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If your yoga mat has met its last toe shedding (you know those little bits of mat that end up all over the floor after many sun salutes) and you’re ready to lay the baby to rest but not sure how to dispose of it, wipe those guilty tears away and recycle! We know, it’s [...]
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Jeremy Piven seems to be recovering well from his bout with mercury poisoning. [photo from people.com]
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