We made it to Wanderlust! If you’ve been following our road trip around about the Pacific Northwest you know we’ve been roaming like gypsies on too much yerba mate through Portland, Seattle, San Fran, wine country and now Lake Tahoe where we’ve taken a brief pause for a little yoga and yogi music festivalness. Day [...]
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UPDATE 2: Life is a Highway If you haven’t heard, we’re on a road trip! And not any road trip, the Great American YogaDork Road Trip, and we’re posting from the road! (in between driving long hours across the Pacific Northwest, stopping for gas and, uh, necessities, and squeezing in a few hours of sleep). The [...]
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Is it hot in here or is it us? Holy ice balls in the sprinkler it’s been steamy. If you’ve been existing on the east coast for the past 5 days or so you know it’s been a “summer scorcher” or so it was deemed on TV. Alas, it is still summer. We shall sally forth with [...]
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Calling all yogadorks! We need your help…Vote for YD! Once again we’ve been nominated for Intent.com’s Web Awards for Best In Yoga. Huzzah! And maybe we even have a chance of winning this time, but we need your help! Please show your love. Click here and vote for YD! We’re truly honored to be in [...]
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It’s the Great American YogaDork Road Trip. We made it to the West Coast! First stop: Portland, Oregon. Thoughts? Super! Portland welcomed us yanks with open arms and espresso (these northwesterners are serious about their espresso. more on that later) Our first yoga stop was the lovely Bhaktishop in Portland’s southeast quarter. We took class [...]
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Happiest of happy birthdays to a legend of modern yoga, Sri K Pattabhi Jois. The student of T. Krishnamacharya and founder of Ashtanga yoga, the vigorous vinyasa practice we know today (and Madonna‘s fave), would have turned 96 this year. Guruji passed away in May 2009, but his legacy lives on on the mat, and in his famous words, “Practice, practice, [...]
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The chakras are kind of like the sweet spots of yoga: a rainbow of fruit flavors that are magically delicious! If you caught those references you had way too much sugar and/or TV growing up in the 80s. Here we have the Ultimate Chakra Chart, once again from the talented, puzzle-solving mind of Alison Hinks. Luckily for [...]
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It is sweltering hot! But hey, it’s summer, are we not supposed to be sweating like heathens in an ashram? We salute the sun after all, so let’s show that bright shining ball in the sky that we are grateful for all it does, but for the love of ice cubes, we could use a [...]
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(…Let this video be your guide!) By Jill Miller, Creator, Yoga Tune Up® The physiological effects of Abdominal Breathing (belly breathing) is a gift we’ve been given, but too many of us have become accustomed to Thoracic Breathing (chest breathing) and end up living in a state of fight or flight. Watch this video below for [...]
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Another for the ‘Yoga’s Not For Wussies File’… “I also did some yoga, which sounds kind of funny. I actually didn’t know how much it was going to help, but it helps balance out your body. They try to find weaknesses in your body and work on them so they catch up with the rest [...]
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