Happy Halloween! In the spirit of all-hallows-eve and knowing your bones, here are some spooky and/or rather awesome skeleton yogis. Can you name the poses and bony landmarks? Borrowed from none other than the hair-raising Heavy Metal Yogi, we think this is super fun, but we’d totally flip our devil horns for a little Dave Mustaine Megadeth-asana. [...]
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Earlier this month, Yogis led by Off the Mat’s Seane Corn descended on #OccupyWallSt to demonstrate their support for “Love. Justice. Unity.” Other celebriyogs like Russell Simmons, Deepak Chopra and yoga hootenannier Michael Franti joined the cause. Next Tuesday the Off the Mat team moves to #OccupyLA and they’ve recruited a slew of festival headlining yogis to [...]
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But of course! It was meditation all along that will bring peace to the Middle East, not war! Alas, a kooky possibility? Yes we said it. But it’s only because of this article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about the Sola Yoga Project, started by Amandine Roche, a French aid worker who was briefly detained [...]
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Yoga Teachers, Dorks, Human Beings: Listen up! Six Experts in Yoga have shimmied up to the round table for discussion on anatomy, its connection to yoga, what’s taught in teacher trainings and how everyone should learn to know their ischial tuberosity from their olecranon process of the ulna. Huh? Yep. Read on! Originally published on [...]
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Your YogaDork Neighborhood Report: Yikes. What to say about this one. Apparently a homeless man was getting his yoga stretch on near a playground in Palatine, IL, according to the local Patch report. Unfortunately it looked like he’d hung a noose around his neck in an attempted public suicide, and the authorities were called. “Officers [...]
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Got back pain? Get yoga. Or at least get to stretching. News this week is that the stretching aspect of yoga is helping folks relieve chronic lower back pain. The study conducted at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle involved 228 adults with persistant back pain, split up into 3 groups: one group had yoga weekly, [...]
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So Halloween is upon us. ACK! Did we scare you? Yes it’s that time of year when all the boys and girls dress up as their biggest yoga nightmare! It’s also time for the annual YD Halloween Contest! OK creative, creeeeeepy yogadorks, this is where we get all Bob Saget, “AFV” Assignment America on you. [...]
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YD Deals, where Jenn, the yogadealer, helps you save your yoga dough one penny at a time. Exclusive online YD Deals (read: you must insert coupon code) Like most YDs, Lauren (aka Saraswati), the creative energy behind Etsy’s Jewels of Saraswati boutique, is a slashy. Saraswati, which (fittingly) means goddess of the arts, music and knowlege, pretty [...]
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So there wasn’t a Rapture (Redux), but honey buns of shakti, we shall make like Belinda Carlisle and find heaven on Earth! We know when life hands us non-Apocalypses, we make sweet yoga with Antonio Banderas. Er, in other words, let go of your attachments to the ‘heretofore’ and ‘future’ and be in the NOW. [...]
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Warning: This article contains balls. Er, therapy balls that is (like these). Here’s another edition of YogaDork Ed. continuing the ongoing study of the great shoulder mystery. By Christine Jablonski, Yoga Tune Up® Teacher Yoga teachers often take advantage of the opportunity to craft “theme” classes; better yet, sometimes we get to take someone else’s “theme” class. [...]
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