Day 70, how’re you doing ‘dorks? It’s two and a half months into the year and t-minus 9 days til Spring, time for a #365yoga giveaway! Need motivation to keep up your daily practice? How about 108 reasons with this beautiful African Jade Mala from Tiny Devotions! Malas, or prayer beads, are traditionally used for [...]
It’s Patanjali’s 8-limbed path in beautiful chartastic form! AKA our new wallpaper. Pretty yoga history (ch)art brought to you by the same graphic goddess of ‘An overly brief and incomplete history of yoga’ Flowchart, Alison Hinks. Click the image to enlarge or save the pdf. More about Alison at her blog. —– Earlier… ‘An overly [...]
You can’t keep this Dawg from good zinger brilliance! Exclusively lent to YD. Somewhere in the parallel universe a pair of twins were spewed from the loins of the Cosmic Mother with such force that it ruptured the firmament and caused the twins to be born to two different earth mothers at different times, in [...]
Something new is something old is something new again. Apparently this is part of the 1938 film featuring Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, BKS Iyengar and others practicing yoga with grace and splendor. Behold… [via NY Acro Yoga Queen Mary Aranas] ps. if you haven’t spent at least 2 lunch hours huddled round your screen marveling at [...]
Tally yo!(ga) Texas is on the march against state government regulation over yoga teacher training. We received this missive in our inbox yesterday: March 2011 (Austin, TX) – Over 1,500 Texans have signed a petition sponsored by the Texas Yoga Association (TYA) to pass House Bills No. 1839 by Representative Phillips and 2167 by Representative [...]
We’ve seen yoga do a lot of things from abling disabled to the Thom Yorke shakti shake, so we’re hopeful about this one. March 12, 2011 – Join India’s Odanadi Seva Trust in a global yoga event to unite against human trafficking. Odanadi Seva Trust is a grassroots organization based in Mysore, South India, to [...]
“This is not yoga, it’s just a show, but to succeed in California, this is what they have to do.” Austrian yoga teacher Florian Palzinsky, 42, groaning in response to Shiva Rea’s short-shorts “writhing” in Yoga Trance Dance at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. According to reports, some 20 peeved practitioners, not feeling the [...]
Introducing our first contributing post from the illustrious yisforyogini. Open a can of Yoga Ha Ha. Bottoms up! Wherever Gaga goes, the world follows…even if that includes wetting one’s whistle with whiskey whilst rocking a Warrior 1 or two. If crunk = crazy + drunk, then we ’bout to get yogrunk up in here. How to [...]
Psst. It’s International Womens Day. Honor the women in your life. (if you’re a woman, count yourself in that, too) Samasthiti JAMES BOND SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2011 www.weareequals.org / www.weareequals.org/blog The two-minute short, specially commissioned for International Women’s Day, sees 007 star Daniel Craig undergo a dramatic makeover as he puts himself, quite literally, [...]
Because it’s Monday! This pup is up to get down dog. er, something…what’s your caption? [via icanhascheezburger of course] —— Earlier… Kitty Tested, Science Approved: Cats Relax (Even More) With Yoga Meditation Music The Anti-Yoga Kitty Makes Us Feel OK More where that came from, continue reading posts on Cat Yoga Yoga with Horses! The [...]