Happy Halloween! Tricks or Treats? In yoga we get both, right? Practice can be a real trickster, and dang, it can be scary, too! But, ultimately we enjoy the ooey gooey treats of our efforts. And this kind of sweetness won’t give you a belly ache, or diabeetus, and you don’t even have to be [...]
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It’s Exorcist Yoga! Because we just know whenever you watch a scary movie you’re thinking, “Hot damn! If only I could be as flexible as that possessed Satanic monster!” Right? It’s really impressive! Which is why we’re so excited to have come across this freakishly like-minded photo illustration from deathandtaxesmag.com, in review of just how [...]
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Boo! It’s almost Halloween, are you dressing up? Get your cameras ready because this year YD is joining in on the treats for tricks fun. It’s a YogaDork Halloween Costume Contest! (above, zombies doing yoga. below, Bikram doing Bikram) Inspired by the hilarious post from YD pal Shanna, Yoga Inspired Halloween Costumes, we thought it’d [...]
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This is your brain. This is your brain on yoga! Meditation to be exact. New, real, comprehensive studies are being done to prove that meditation does indeed actually transform the circuits of the brain to increase functionality, focus, empathy and happiness. How fabulous! Changes have been seen in the limbic system or the brain’s emotional [...]
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Stories of yoga inspiration! Not hard to come by these days, and that’s a wonderfully fabulous thing. Meet Matthew Sanford, he’s been paralyzed from the chest down since he was 13 and has spent the past 29 years in a wheelchair. But he’s not sitting still. Approximately 20 years ago he discovered yoga and the [...]
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Now hear this! Madonna will beat Britney, Russell and Gaga in the race to Pop Star Gym Tycoon status! Who cares if no one else was in the running, she’ll best them anyway. It’s true, the chiseled madame of reinvention will be opening her own chain of Hard Candy Fitness centers with manager Guy Oseary [...]
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Sequencing! For many yogsters it can make or break a yoga class. For teachers it can be a chance to add personal flare or create a real case of ajita. So how DO I transition from ardha chandrasana to parivrtta trikonasana? or what have you. There’s a multitude of styles out there, and more sprouting [...]
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Get your granola ready! A new indie comedy “Sunny Side Up” is underway, starring indie queen Parker Posey, yoga and a chicken farm? Posey’s character, a yoga guru from the city, flies the coop for the country taking her flock of followers along for the ride to coexist with chicken farmers, improv encouraged. What could [...]
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News from the East: They’re calling it Yoga’s “official” debut in China. The first Art of Living center was inaugurated Sunday at its new home, 165-acres of land on the banks of the Yangtse river in Beijing. Of course, yoga has actually been in China for years, and started to really catch on with the [...]
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Even more commentary on the commercialization of yoga and nudie booties in ads, with a dash of spiritual enterprising. From the Guardian UK: Does all this fuss over yoga and sex reflect the enduring strength of American puritanism and prudishness? Are critics merely jealous killjoys? Supporters of Budig and the new nudity trend in yoga [...]
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