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Robert Downey Jr, The Comeback Yogi

Robert Downey Jr, the Comeback Yogi

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Feat. Kitties, Rappers, Yoga Girls & Adam Levine

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August 2010

From the creative and curious mind of Dan Borris, who brought us the popular Yoga Dogs Calendar (and Yoga Cats), comes a new litter of oddly cute yoga-posing puppies, cats and kittens. Here’s your first look and laughter yoga break for the day. woo! Mr. Borris is a photographer from San Antonio, Texas who saw [...]

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Julia Roberts went to India and all she got was a little ‘Pray’ action for her starring role in a soon to be summer blockbuster and a conversion to Hinduism! What? In the same interview for the September Elle magazine where America’s sweetheart eschews botox because she wants her kids to recognize her happy vs [...]

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Question: How is it that when you have a few days off you’re even more tired than when you power through a 3-week yoga teacher training-athon? Krishna? Bueller? Sweet mother of pearl, we had the weekend off! So why is my frontal lobe on the fritz? Oh, of course, it is the common condition known [...]

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After last week’s turn of yogic bedlam, we’ve been operating on a cocktail of exhaustion fumes and settling dust, but we must march on! If you’ve ever heard the story of Virabhadra you know he is one mean battling machine. Though really it doesn’t take a scholar to recognize that the yoga poses named after [...]

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And now for your YD sports update! The big story here? YES, there is YOGA in FOOTBALL! And these guys aren’t afraid of pastel mats and farts.  As far as sports go, and really any kind of athletic activity, especially where your body is tossed around like a pinata, it’s not just post-injury rehab, but [...]

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Neal Pollack is a YogaDork! He’s also a novelist, a journalist and more recently a self-proclaimed “hot jew of the yoga generation.” He’s a funny guy. Maybe best known for his days as an unwieldy and intoxicated narcissistic satirist, Neal’s rising star hit the skidless sticky mat of life, if you will, because of those [...]

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OMG major development. Bet you were just waiting at the very edge of your sukhasana for  ‘Jersey Shore’ does yoga news! We know it! Thank goodness for popeater after long last we have validated proof there’s more than just fist pumping and tanning bed lid-lifting  in this young lady’s fitness routine. JWoww does yoga! Which [...]

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Meet Yasmin F. Gow.  She just completed what could be a World Record for the longest yoga marathon! (pending Guinness approval). A serial marathon-er this one, before taking on the 32-hour non-stop yogathon she had already been well on her way through 108 sun salutations, for 108 consecutive days. Yas explained the mission on her [...]

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It’s about that time again…election time! And that jolly bunch of folks on capital hill are chomping at the bit to secure the 37 Senate seats up for grabs this November. Naturally, this calls for action! Press conferences! Funny politician-isms like describing things that “give taxpayers the blues.”  According to GOP Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma [...]

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Uh oh, are we about to have a ‘Thriller’-esque showdown at the cemetery? TMZ reports, Devotees of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) are intending to make their pilgrimage to the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA for the regular prayer ritual today. Namaste! But the structure is also home to the resting body of late pop [...]

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