by J. Brown Flipping through the catalog for a big name yoga and retreat center, I was shocked to notice that they advertised their yoga teacher training programs as “Yoga Alliance Approved.” Misrepresentations like this are the dirty little secret of the yoga industry. No one really wants to admit there is no accreditation for [...]
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Oof. We’ve been there before! Here’s a playful video featuring the all-star stereotyped characters including The Bitchy Hot Girl, The Yoga Perv and The Hungover One, with their inner monologues left wide open for us to hear, relate, cringe and giggle. Sound familiar? From the folks at Jest. And what are YOU thinking in yoga [...]
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Man, it’s like these days are just getting shorter and shorter. Daylight must be saved! Yes it’s dark at 5pm, but we won’t let that keep us from eating all our halloween candy for dinner shining the light of our pre-holiday spiritude. This week was full of surprise resignations, scenes from a horrific lulu murder [...]
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You are what you eat! So all you Mickey D McRib fans out there, we hope you’re fixin to be a yoga mat, cause you could turn into one! That’s not entirely true, but a recent article in TIME mag’s Healthand blog points out that the McRib isn’t good for you (shocker!), though it’s not [...]
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Hey spooksters and yoga ghouls, we’re off into November mode, but before we get too swept away into the holidays (eep!) we need your votes for the YD Halloween Photo Contest Finalists! Tell us what they’ll win, Bob. The yogi with the most votes will receive a $50 gift certificate for ANYTHING in the Drishti [...]
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We haven’t been posting on the murder trial play by play because it’s pretty much too terrible to report. But if you’re familiar with the horrific events that occurred at the Bethesda, Md. Lululemon store back in March, you may be interested to know that the 29-year-old Brittany Norwood, the woman charged with the killing [...]
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So when Deepak Chopra isn’t writing his 80th book, defining spirituality, dueling with Hinduism and Western Egos or occupying Wall Street, apparently he’s at home playing his own video game and meditating with his virtual self. In case you were curious! We had a feeling when we first reported on the blisstastic interactive meditative adventure [...]
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Yogis found their heartspace and practiced their yoga on the steps of city hall, Tuesday November 1st, as part of the #OccupyLA movement. A list of big names who showed up, along with 100 other yogis on mats (NYC was too crowded), included Ashley Turner, Kia Miller, James Brown, Saul David Raye, Mia Togo, Ally Hamilton, Brock Cahill, Vytas [...]
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While her letter of resignation was rapt with gratitudinal homage, it left little else, other than our own speculation, as to why Elena Brower, longtime devotee and female counterpart to John Friend, decided, after a decade under the Anusara designation, to curtsy and exit stage left. Then she replied to our post with this. In [...]
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The maven of mass yoga retires from her roots after more than a decade. Elena Brower, yoga teacher, studio owner and empowered woman of self-startingness has announced her departure from big daddy John Friend‘s formal Anusara certification. We could’ve said we saw this coming, what with Elena’s growth and subsequent skyrocketing into celeb status, quitting [...]
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