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Robert Downey Jr, The Comeback Yogi

Robert Downey Jr, the Comeback Yogi

Complete and Exhaustive Guide: Yoga Community Responds to NYT 'How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body'

Feat. Kitties, Rappers, Yoga Girls & Adam Levine

#yogahaha get your yoga funnies on

June 2011

“A few players I know said they had tried hot yoga and that it helped improve their flexibility while flushing out their systems, so I thought I would try it. I can do most of the poses, but I’m not as flexible in my upper body because I’m so muscular. Sometimes I just have to [...]

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YogaTuning: Wherein the genius of passionate songwriting meets the sanctum of our yoga mats. Om Nama Madonna. —— Vogueing the Yoga “Strike a Pose, There’s Nothing To It” If we can learn anything from 9-yr-old Robert Jeffrey it’s certainly that! I performed to MADONNA’s “VOGUE” in the Summer of 1991 when my parents took me [...]

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Yogi bear exists! Again! Yet another yoga-ing bear, Mikhail, performs his poses for the admiring crowd at the Kaliningrad Zoo in Russia. According to zoo-goers, grizzly Mikhail eats up the energy from his audience and will often hold the poses for 5 minutes. And he does it all with a grin! (of a bear who [...]

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DAVID LIFE, 61 “Tattoos mark a moment in time you want to give credit to,” said Mr. Life, a Lower East Side resident since 1979 and a co-founder of the international Jivamukti Yoga School. And some of us are inclined to wear our yoga on our sleeves. Sleeve tattoos, that is. The New York Times, [...]

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Welcome to our new YogaDork Ed section! For the edification of yoga practitioners, teachers and yogi dabblers, on asana, philosophy, yoga biz and more. Stay tuned for tips, vids, skits, and skats. More to come! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay in the know. First up, we’re excited to announce a [...]

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“We are still super friends, we go to yoga together, we surf together. We acknowledge the journey that each of us is on. We certainly want each of us to feel whole and complete. And it’s when you’re whole and complete that that attraction exists and it really thrives.” Pop singer/yoga rapper, Jason Mraz waxes [...]

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Oh my. It’s citta vritti gone wild! It’s the fluctuations of your mind represented by a bunch of “reckless assholes” at a single intersection of New York City. Whether you live in the big apple or not, it’s difficult to fully appreciate and comprehend the daily dance that is the flow of traffic in NYC [...]

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Mind-Body Connection Optional?

by YD on June 8, 2011

in YogOpinions

by J. Brown I continually assert that yoga practice encompasses more than physical fitness. As much as I generally try to avoid admitting it, this does implicitly question whether the use of yoga poses for physical fitness alone can even be considered yoga practice. My interpretation of what constitutes a yoga practice aside for now, [...]

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Yoga Study Nugget Break: A stroke, as defined, is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood flow) caused by blockage (thrombosis, arterial embolism), or a hemorrhage (leakage of blood). This causes the affected area of the [...]

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This just in: Celebrities do yoga! They also get preggo. We know, it’s like we should be working for TMZ. Here is Lady January Jones, aka Mad Men‘s Betty Draper, all baby bump and yoga’d. Surely the first-time momma doesn’t need yogarazzi in her face, but since yoga studios are the paps’ new favorite hangout [...]

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