From the category archives:
Hey hey it’s September! It’s Yoga Month! Joy! Elation! Sorry, just trying extra hard here, we know a lot of folks are going back to school, returning from vaca etc. Got to keep the spirits up!
The team at Yoga Month HQ this year are bringing the big guns, the TITANS to be exact, to ramp [...]
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We love Beth Lapides! The queen of turning that frown upside down…dog. hm.
We’ve been fans of Beth since posting about her witty collection of essays “My Other Car Is a Yoga Mat” in which we decidedly deemed her the “indelible upward-facing madame of comedy.” And don’t think we just go around saying that about anyone! (btw, [...]
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Tao Porchon-Lynch the 92-year-old yoga dynamo came to town last week for a workshop. While this yogadork was partaking in YTT subtle bodiliciousness, and therefore couldn’t attend, we were lucky enough to have a fellow yogi reporter Jenn Pesce on the inside. This is her account:
Picture the sweetest old lady you know and now picture [...]
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Yesterday was Guru Purnima, the day in Indian tradition where Gurus, teachers, those who bring us from darkness to light, are acknowledged and honored. Today is the birth date of Yoga Hero Sri K Pattabhi Jois, who was born in 1915, which would make him 95 years old. Jois left his earthly body in May [...]
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Here’s a little early-almost-mid-week pick-me-up, and egregious use of hyphens, to boot. Not doing anything exciting this weekend? Sign on to be inspired by 91-year-young Tao “There is Nothing You Cannot Do” Porchon-Lynch this Saturday, at Strala in NYC where the yoga hero will be teaching a 3-hour workshop on the integration and importance of [...]
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Look at all the pretty vrttis!
Happy Independence Day! Let us join together in bbq’d celebration, and heed the words of the great BKS Iyengar:
“Do not forget that all fireworks come with strict warnings as they are dangerous.” [really! (citation: Light on Life pg. 222)]
You heard the man! True he was referencing the “spectacular effects” [...]
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Just minutes after announcing the official new World’s Record (urdb.org) for largest registered yoga class, cheers! Down came the rain and washed the yogis out!* Elena took the stage around 7:30 accompanied by the one and only Dharma Mittra and fellow yogi demo-ers (including Sadie Nardini and Alison West). There was a wave of “om’s” [...]
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This year’s Yogapalooza is upon us! Yogapa-wha? It’s the third annual multi-city yoga event to raise awareness and funds for Yoga Bear, an inspiring non-profit org promoting wellness and healing for cancer survivors, and all those impacted by it, through the practice of yoga. inhale. And thanks to science, we know how yoga can profoundly [...]
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OMG..it’s on! Just as we had predicted, Central Park is gearing up for the biggest spirited gathering since Simon & Garfunkel! June 22 could very well go down in the history books as the largest gathering of hippies, yippies and yogadorks of all shapes and sizes the world has ever seen! Hosted by flavorpill (who [...]
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“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.”
Earth Day can get pretty gimmicky…everyone from the FOX Network to Ford is jumping full throttle on the “let’s be green!” bandwagon. Not to discount the corporate efforts, because heaven knows if it amounts to good then we’re all for it. But when you clear [...]
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