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Robert Downey Jr, The Comeback Yogi

Robert Downey Jr, the Comeback Yogi

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October 2009

Every Tuesday The Yogacist will answer one of your questions! Here’s our first one… Dear Yogacist: I went to a mellow class today and was really getting into the flow of things.  It was a new teacher, new sequencing and a very relaxing class, except for one thing: several interruptions from a fellow student panting like an obscene [...]

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Hey, it’s Monday! You’re obviously working too hard already, or maybe you have the day off, lucky! Either way, take a few minutes out to delight your eyes and ears in this awesome and gorgeous demonstration of music and poetry in motion. Watch, breathe and absorb. INFO: Official music video for ‘Ljósið’ taken from Icelandic music [...]

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that’s parity, as in balance, not parody…what, you didn’t think YD was SAT material? It actually looks pretty neat, even if the video is somewhat of a snoozefest (isn’t the trailer supposed to motivate us to buy?). Used in conjunction with the Wii Balance Board it looks like they provide digi feet on the screen [...]

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Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Namaste Book Club meditation challenge! And a very special word of gratitude to those who contributed thoughts and reflections from their own experience with taking time out to meditate each day from Sept 10-Oct 10. And now that the month is up, the moment you’ve been waiting for… we have [...]

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A hunk a hunk a burnin yoga! OMG. This is YogaPop retro style. Meet Elvis “the pelvis” Presley in an entertaining turn at Yoga in the 1967 film Easy Come, Easy Go. Watch Elvis Presley in “Yoga Is As Yoga Does” written by Gerald Nelson and Fred Burch. (scroll down for the lyrics and official [...]

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Recent news reports say Shaq is liking the Cleveland roster (his new team). You know what roster we’re liking? Team Yoga that’s what! Remember when we told you about how awesome we thought Lebron James was for practicing yoga and teaching it to the kiddies, even though we don’t even watch basketball? Really, we thought [...]

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Does this sound familiar? You’re late for yoga, the teacher’s already shut the door and denies your entry. Drat! You paid for class. Should you enter anyway? Or maybe… Sweaty McSteamybod has removed his shirt and is dripping all over your mat during class. Do you confront his royal perspireness? If situations like this have [...]

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Sister satire, Tina Fey, has shot up the ranks of superlady stardom, with what is it now four thousand Emmys? Something like that. This working girl is no slouch on an expanding To-do’s, but when it comes to fitness, yoga is on the bucket list. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Tina describes her typical [...]

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You may have a heard about a little movie called Couples Retreat coming out in the US this weekend…perhaps, for you yogadorks, it was a coworker’s gentle ribbing at the water cooler over the freaky (yet studmuffinly) yoga guy in the film’s trailer, or maybe the studio is overdoing its job and you’ve seen the [...]

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UPDATE: Pre-orders are now closed. Please go to the shop to #yogadork yourself! Well, hello! This has been a project in the making for a wee while now and we’re so excited to finally announce our next tshirt!! Huzzah. We’ve been so overwhelmed by the incredible response to the ‘Yoga Is My Bailout‘ tee, and [...]

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