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“The next Maureen Dowd.” – Marco Rojas, yoga teacher
“A kind of Gawker.com for yogis, the blog tiptoes the line where yoga intersects with pop culture.” The New York Times
“some people get up and read the Washington Post or NY Times. I get up and read @yogadork #truestory” @letitgo8
And now, some occasionally, frequently asked questions.
Q: Who are you?
We are YogaDorks to the max, offering commentary on the latest yoga news with wit and wisdom. We have a sense of humor!
Q: What’s the site all about?
YogaDork.com is a place for yogis, or otherwise, to convene and converse, to chat about yoga, yoga-related things, and sometimes dogs pushing kitties on scooters.
Q: What is a YogaDork?
Anyone who spends enough time thinking about yoga it’s like being multilingual. But with yoga. We brush our teeth in tree pose. It’s pretty dorky.
Q: So do you just survive doing yoga and blogging about it?
Er, sorta. YD exists on donations and advertising. If you’re interested in ads please scroll down a few Qs. If you like what you’re reading and would like to donate please contribute whatever you wish!
Q: Do you have an email address?
Yep. info@yogadork.com. Or go to the contact page to say hi, ask a question, send us a tip, vent, rant, etc. We have a twitter and a facebook too!
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Sure! Head over to the Contact page and choose “advertising” from the subject menu.
Q: Do you have anything else to add??
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Hi!
I just wanted to drop by to share the news that the remodeled Yoga Day USA website is up. On the website you will find more information about what Yoga Day USA is and ways to get involved. There is also a search engine to find events in your area. We are getting numerous event submissions everyday so if you do not find one that is close, check again in a few days. I thought you might be interested in checking us out and if you have any questions about anything, feel free to contact me. Have a great day!
Blessings,
Martina Hood
Marketing Associate
Yoga Alliance
Great blog, thanks for sharing!
Hi – found out about you when I saw someone linked to my site (lotuspad – the kids pvc-free yoga mats). Thanks for the inclusion in your gift guide – I’ve been enjoying your blog!
Namaste,
Katy
Just to let you know that I have been enjoying this blog. There are very few that I follow. Most are just so much….anyway….great job!
Regarding your poll on “What do you wear to Yoga Class?”, if 83% of the yogis who answered picked – mix & match, but not too concerned with the trends or spending…how is Lululemon soooooooooooo successful? Anyways, i think yogi’s are too consumed on what they wear and should actually only care about how it feels. I am a causual yogi, i am not name brand conscious at all…basically tight shorts (or leggings) and a tank top.
I am enjoying your blog! Keep up the good work.
i love love love you yoga dork.
i perspire to be more like you!
love your blog! will blogroll ya!
YogaDork is absolutely coooool!!!
Yogadork rocks, great content!!! ecstatic I finally found a blog i like
that is well versed in this and that for yogi livin’ —-very nice
Hi Yoga Dork,
I just added your link to my yoga links.
Also I’ve collected the first 12 “My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat” columns and they are now available as a free PDF .
Thanks for all your great blogs.
See you on twitter:)
xo
Beth
Very good!
hi there! just want to say that i first stumbled across your blog after reading elephant journal and have been entertained daily every since! thanks for keeping yoga lighthearted and fun!!
This is so funny! I just stumbled upon this site from Twitter but I love it! In the mean time, if you want to check out some super cool and useful, innovative, Yoga accessories, go to http://www.YogaStickySocks.com. Where you’ll fint the answer to Slippery Problems with Stick-e Solutions. Have a great day! Libby
I had never heard of Lululemon until I read here. Obviously. I don’t get out much. I have generally always done my yoga in my own house in really un-hip clothes. Like, from Target. Tragic.
Great blog.
What a wonderful blog!! Happy I found my way here by way of about 10 other yoga blogs…
Thanks for the great writing on all things yoga!
Hannah
I am glad I found my online tribe
Hi, YogaDork. I’m really enjoying your site. You get some really good discussions going here.
I put a link to your site on my webpage “The Wonder of Being Alive–Yoga Philosophy Demystifying” http://www.myyogabook.wordpress.com .
Please feel free to link to my webpage, too, if it fits your site plan.
Thanks,
Bob
You bet I’ll be following you guys here. I am a fanatic about yoga, and a good number of my friends have started doing yoga just from me talking about it with so much passion… I love Thesis too, the site looks great. Makes me think of ways to spice mine up. Ah but I digress, great creativity and wonderful energy from your site. It’s such a yogi site
!
Hey just wanted to say Thanks for all the great posts and that we have been cross-posting to our blog http://www.prana.com/blog and to the prAna Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/prana .
Cheers!
Hi,
I just started a blog, posting a yoga sequence a day for yogis and yoginis to use in your home or studio practice. I’m looking for guest bloggers who would like to contribute their favorite sequence. I would link back to your blog and/or any other website from the sequence. Variety is the spice of life, and that’s what I’m looking for
The blog is http://www.thejoyofyoga.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Emma
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate a sense of humor in the world of all thing Vedic. It really helps to take profound things lightly, and I don’t mean less seriously, just less HEAVY.
There seems to be that tendency in the West to think that spiritual means serious. The heart is healthiest when full of light, and humor lifts the spirit that way.
In my world of Ayurveda, I try to keep things light, and sometimes very serious Yogis take offense as if I’m not doing the science justice.
But I think humor is a great way to reach people and open them to the essence of the teachings.
Thanks.
Dr. Sharada
I am Experience Yoga Instructor from India, I am visiitng every years USA for teach yoga, I am very happy to see your Blog about yoga, thanks for that.
Arvind Zanje
Namaste,
Enthusiasm towards what is considered Yoga is good, but it is essential to understand that ultimately Yoga sadhana is a sacrifice, the sacrifice of ones finite consciousness back to God via the vehicle of a fully awakened and higher functioning Kundalini Devi. This world we find ourselves in is not about us having a limited viewing of our yoga social groups and apparel. It is instead it is about experiencing ones individual consciousness as one with Siva. Namaste
Namaste. Someone named Alyse sent me a comment that said I was being insultful about yoga and also said i had a yoga video saying “fuck yoga” or something to that effect.
I never did a yoga video nor intended to insult what people consider yoga. She must have me confused with someone else or someone using my name.
I am an initiated tantric yogin of the Sarasvati lineage; my Guru is Swami Satyananda of Bihar India. The life I live consists soley of daily yoga sadhana, and which may be seemingly foreign to most of you, but at the stage i am at involves no asanas, but the sitting asana siddhasana. I practice only Laya Yoga and advanced tattva shuddi. The experience of consciousness this reveals is that there are none of us as personalities, only veiled entities who are unintentionally concealing the consciousness of Siva that is loving through us. namaste atmabhoda
Yoga Dorks Unite!
-Brian
Shorts contest:
I have always loved the phrase “Whirled Peas”.
love your blog! i feel embraced ~
Thanks for being such a valuable resource! Love your site!
Hey – I found your blog from, yes, yet another one, the NYT profile! Does this now make you a yoga celebrity?
Anyways, I love the voice in the yogadork blog, as I am, at heart, a true dork (middlin’ yoga student – not ready to call myself a yogi or anything)
congrats on the exposure! I hope good things come of it, and I look forward to your next blog post!
cheers,
ken
Cracks me up when people diss Bikram. Then get all humble about styles like Mokshaw. Don’t you know Mokshaw is pure plagarism of Bikram.
Think of the postures as notes to a song. Bikram chose a bunch and created a few in the series, put them together and created his series. He does not want to own anything except for the “song he created” He’s not saying people can’t do it and practice the postures … he’s just saying don’t make money of my creation. Like Ted Grant (Mokshaw) does. It’s hillarious how i know so many teachers who bad mouth Bikram yet make a bunch of doe. I know a few teachers who opened studios in Asia, opened hot yoga schools, hired eager teacher and later fired the for cheaper teachers from Asia…. At the beginning hands in prayer all Namaste, later all sorry we can’t accomodate you here we don’t have the money, yet opening second the third studios.
Bikram, is the funniest most genuine guy. Iyengar used to be a judge and judged him in yoga competitions when he was a child.
Can’t stand the humula teachers, who OMMMMM, and act like they are on the path to enlighment.
Yoga is all one!
and this is what he’s copyright says…
“Due to the originality of the sequence and the strength of the copyright registration, infringement of the sequence copyright can occur in a number of ways. In addition to exact copying of the sequence, the copyright prohibits others from creating “derivative” works of the sequence. Virtually all modifications or additions to the sequence will constitute copyright infringement, including: the unauthorized use of even a small number of consecutive postures; the addition of different postures or breathing exercises to the sequence or portions of the sequence; the teaching or offering of the sequence with or without the Dialogue; or by the addition of extra elements to the sequence, like music.”
Sorry, but he didn’t created the poses. They were created thousands of years ago…and as you can read he doesn’t want anybody using them in any way! I’m not against he making a living teaching yoga…that’s great! But if everyone continues to copyright poses and sequences soon enough we all would be sued for practicing a downward dog?!
I also have never meet a yoga teacher that makes a lot of “doe”…if they do they probably worked really hard! Without capyrighting anything!
Ommmmmmm, lol
hey, YD….this is just about the funniest thing I’ve read yet!
Hey Yoga Dork,
I just found your blog and love being able to laugh at our wonderful practice. Sadly though, I ran across an article you wrote about one of my instructors and dear friends Steve Rogers. Humor is great until you begin to slander a truly brilliant career. It may seem funny to you convict someone and send them to jail before they even have a trial. Whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty? I look forward to watching how karma effects your life and livelihood. Although I doubt that Steve would laugh or even wish that upon you. It would be great if you considered running a retraction when Steve wins his case next month. I’ll send you the article.
Hi Morgan,
Thanks so much for reading. No ill will has been wished on Mr. Roger (is it Rogers? you seem to know him better) and only the facts reported based on news. The threat about karma is not welcomed and is frankly mean spirited. Surely we’ll post the article about Steve’s pending trial outcome as soon as it’s public, and of course hope for positive news, whatever that may be.
peace
YD
This blog is a must-read! My first stop every day, keep it up Dorks!
I just found your blog and I LOVE it! Thanks for being dorky
posted the essence of this on another portion of your site, but not sure you’ll see it there, so offering it here as well.
the core of my experience of yoga is its ability to move us to a place of non-judgment, of ourselves and others, more fully enabling us to be in the moment with whatever is from a place of acceptance. given this, i find it terribly ironic that you devote some portion of your blog to tearing down other practitioners and their approach to the practice. not very yogic, to say the least.
moreover, anyone with a shred of self-insight might conclude your critique smacks of jealousy and bitterness, not to mention hypocrisy; funny that’s it’s ok for you to post a video entitled “fuck yoga”, but it’s not ok for another yogi to appear in an ad for yoga apparel. again, the irony abounds.
if it’s a “lifestyle” as you claim, perhaps you’d do well to beef up on the central precept of “namaste”, recognizing the light in others from the light within ourselves. you do a disservice to the discipline and its adherents by expending energy tearing others down.
Lot of fun to read articles! but why do you run on donations? advertising not enough?
Love your blog. Have added you to my blogroll.
Please check out my yoga blog –
http://athayoganusasanam.wordpress.com/
I would be thrilled if you added it to your blogroll.
Thanks!
Blessings
YogaDork! <3
I just wanted to drop by here and tell you that I love this website, instead of commenting it at nearly every post you guys have made! I hope you keep up the good work!
Congrats with such a nice website and best of luck with the future!
Love
fyi: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-10/yoga-poses-can-t-be-registered-for-copyrights-u-s-says-1-.html
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