We warned you about it way back in the high times of summer, and here it comes… Yoga for Wii! As if teachers and studios didn’t have enough to contend with in the age of Recession Yoga! This isn’t your casual ‘Wii Fit yogi’ style, wedged alongside ski jumps and hula hoops. This is solely [...]
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It takes a lot of hobnobbing to build a business, something a corporate survivor is accustomed to doing, if not especially good at. So it’s really not surprising that so many former moneymakers are dropping office trou’ and sinking their teeth into teaching yoga, especially since a lot of these folks are probably living off [...]
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Last week we mentioned the news of ascent‘s descent into the print media graveyard at the end of this month – not a huge shocker in today’s newspaper and print death march (obviously it’s not just yoga mags going the way of the dodo bird). As the Drishti Blog pointed out, those who still enjoy [...]
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Meditations on Mutations… With stress raised to level Orange these days folks have been seeking yoga in droves as a means to relief and sanctity on this rocky road of life. But why has yoga really done so well in the past few years? 16 Million Americans, $6 billion spent on yoga in 2008. That’s [...]
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And here we were thinking only Yoga Don Bikram lived the extravagant life of Rolls Royces and Rolexes. Beth June Shaw, marketing guru and captain of the YogaFit ship, must’ve had $1.349 million burning a hole in the hidden pocket of her Lululemon pants, because that’s what she paid on Jan. 22 for a three-bedroom, [...]
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What good is history if we can’t learn from it, right? Lots of experts, and non-perts, are pontificating on comparisons of today’s financial meltdown to 1930′s Depression Era America. And they’re finding plenty of similarities in the political and financial departments – big banks, bubbles, unemployment, New Deals – but what of the nation’s health? [...]
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Huzzah! Fellow yogadork and steadfast yogi blogger, Erica Rodefer, showed us some love on Yoga Journal‘s ‘Yoga Buzz’ blog yesterday. Big thanks to Ms. Rodefer for the shout out! Read more about our new tee Yoga Is My Bailout. From YJ Yoga Buzz…
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We’ve been wondering how long it would take for news on the health of Corporate Yoga to pop up, because we’ve been waiting for a good reason to talk about it. Amid the turbulence, strung out citizens seem to be clinging to yoga as stress relief even more these days, and who could need it [...]
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So we saw the headline “Credit Crunch Yoga” and thought it was our YogaTag pal (of the actual creditcrunchyoga.com). Alas, more than anything else, this post on trendhunter is an ad for Les Leventhal’s $20/mo podcast yoga. Shysters. And then we thought, well, $20 is OK, but there are plenty of yoga videos on youtube [...]
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CNN has a feature up about recession stress and how even more people are flooding yoga class in search of relief. [Washington yoga instructor Kyra Sudofsky] says evening classes that normally host 18 to 28 students are now packed with more than 30 people, many of them looking for an inexpensive way to release anxiety [...]
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