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Meditations on Mutations

Hey! Get that FULL MIND & BODY workout…with Spinning and Yoga! Awesome! Be sure to pull that belly button in nice and tight. Uh oh.
Today on the CBS Early Show morning risers were treated to a blast of cardio spinning (awesome!) combined with yoga (beautiful!) from SoulCycle. Love to burn those calories and fat, but [...]

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Here’s a new one for you – yoga for opera singerrrrs! (we’re working on the vibrato). Opera divas: now with more to sing about, flaunt, stomp their feet in a huff over, and other caricature diva-ish things.
Opera students at the University of Minnesota Duluth are getting a lesson in core strength and breathing exercises so [...]

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eek. Have we arrived so soon at the (very ick sounding) target consumer demographic status? With all the hootin’ and hollerin’ on an earlier post (remember “Yoga Mom”? Suck it bitches?) you may recall that phrase struck quite a few mamas in chakras! In which “Prana Mama” was the badge of choice.  So, what? Are [...]

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It’s April 1st, do we even know what’s real anymore?!? *exasperated breath*
When we first heard about Mobile Yoga (yoga on rollerblades!) we were all like wha? stop yankin our yoga straps! Newsflash: it’s not a joke! So it really doesn’t behoove them to officially launch the Mobile Yoga campaign (again, yoga on rollerblades!) on April [...]

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This is for real!

We’ve been freaked out before by cemetery yoga…yes yoga in a graveyard! But never had our little horrified imaginations ever wandered to the thought of…funeral home yoga? But wait, it’s for death meditation, part of the Tibetan Buddhist culture, so of course confronting and meditating on death adjacent to an embalming room [...]

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Room service! Would you like a side of vasithasana with your vichyssois?
Last week we cracked up at the idea of in-room bed warmers – live people in special suits?! So would it really be so bizarre for hotels to offer in-room private yoga as a standard amenity? We say no! And may we also be [...]

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A gimmick? a trend? A Movement?
Oh Nudieness is growing all right..(esp in SF) did you know about Skinbook? It’s a whole social-networking site specifically for nudists!
Sure with all this jib jabbing about who’s wearing what to yoga class and the cost of making your tush look firm, it does kinda make you want to forget [...]

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We know some yogsters are gonna LOVE this and some are going to freak right out.
Remember Rollerblades? They were all the rage back in the days of cutoffs and poofy hairsprayed bangs. These days ‘in-line skating’ ranks among the list of extreme sports, but the actual ‘Rollerblade‘ brand hasn’t seen a great spin of sales [...]

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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 question for you, is World Laughter Day still funny the day after?
As the NY Daily News points out there’s much to NOT laugh about: like recession, swine flu, and RAIN. Good grief!
But even stone-faced NYers made their way out to crack a smile and a few ribs in Central Park yesterday for the [...]

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