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If you’re in NYC this weekend, which sadly, we are not, check out this awesome and creative Drawing Yoga Workshop, hosted by one of our favorite sites YogaCityNYC, and featuring the shared knowledge of one of our most revered yoga instructors, Bobby Clennell.
one of a kind workshop
more info at http://yogacitynycspecialevents.com/
Saturday, January 16, 2010
1:30 - 4:00pm
Om [...]
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Have you heard about the Sirsasana Challenge 2010? It’s on! Read this post featuring impromptu-Sirsa queen Cora Wen, and view the first photos on the YD facebook page to get an idea!
So speaking of Cora, and headstands, how bout a little how-to video featuring both? For this one there are lots of fun props, but [...]
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Every Tuesday The Yogacist will answer one of your questions! Here’s our first one…
Dear Yogacist:
I went to a mellow class today and was really getting into the flow of things. It was a new teacher, new sequencing and a very relaxing class, except for one thing: several interruptions from a fellow student panting like an obscene phone caller [...]
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We see dead people…walking out of yoga class before savasana! Otherwise known as corpse pose, savasana is, suitably, the final pose of a yoga practice. And for good reason! But some folks just don’t know how to take things lying down.. or uh, dying, essentially.
Yesterday fitsugar.com had a “you asked” question up from a writer-in [...]
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Who wears short shorts? Come on all you hairy-legged manly men…what say you?
Oh yes, women can vote too…but ladies, be fair
(polls inspired by and dedicated to @rock_my_soles and fellow #yogadorks)
Earlier…
Sexism? Yoga Instructor in Booty Shorts Reveals More Than Questionable Fashion Sense
What’s a Man to Wear to Yoga Class?
Who Created the Yoga Mat? [...]
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“It never matters what you’re wearing if you practice with your heart,” said Ms. Suh (at left). “You all come in, you all commit.” Still, in an ultra-hot room, Ms. Suh said, it was helpful to have clothes that did not ride up or slip off, and could withstand the wear of a daily class.
And [...]
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Ever get a hankering for more yoga knowledge, but discouraged by the idea that you’d be learning all by your lonesome? Fear not! Newfangled technology called the internets is in cahoots with the inspiring ingenuity of a few stellar individuals to come to your rescue! And so it was named the Namaste Book Club.
The culmination [...]
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New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog points out how New Yorkers in particular are getting their pow wowing and elbow rubbing in at fairly “unconventional” locales, like in the park walking the dog, at Kinko’s printing resumes, and at the supposed sanctum of Yoga class. Interesting, though we kind of figure this happens all the [...]
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have an opinion? take the poll (scroll down)
Let’s see… there’s yoga for elders, yoga for kids, yoga to restore, yoga to rehabilitate, yoga to invigorate, yoga for gravity-dissers, yoga for DOGs, for barking out loud! (heh) Why not yoga for Big Bods? Fat Yoga? (why is fat a bad word anyway?) By now if you [...]
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Here’s a fun one! On this Wednesday afternoon - as we’re pining for Friday to get here already! - comes the eternal question of the (happy) hour,
“To booze or not to booze before yoga class?”
“Asanas on Ice” wrote in to Chow.com with the query, requesting an ethical/health check on pre-yoga buzz form
A couple times [...]
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