“This is not yoga, it’s just a show, but to succeed in California, this is what they have to do.” Austrian yoga teacher Florian Palzinsky, 42, groaning in response to Shiva Rea’s short-shorts “writhing” in Yoga Trance Dance at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. According to reports, some 20 peeved practitioners, not feeling the [...]
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If birds dropping from the sky and dead fish washing ashore by the thousands weren’t signs of the impending Apocalypse, baby swinging yoga has confirmed our doom! Baby-swinging wah? Yes, videos have surfaced of a Russian video entitled “Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina.” Many thought it was fake, including Gawker sleuths, but upon further research [...]
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Is India un-yoga? What? Everyone knows yoga came from India, right? Though it seems most of what we know of the practice today has come from Western influence, even in yoga’s motherland. Is this true? Don’t take our word for it. NPR has a story from Sandip Roy, an India-born American immigrant who’s just learning his downward [...]
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Interesting news from the East: China loves yoga! This week Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited India and gave a 30-minute address at the Indian Council of World Affairs where he praised Mahatma Gandhi, quoted from the Upanishads, spoke highly of Yoga and its relation to Chinese calligraphy, and waxed poetic on how much influence Buddhism has had on Chinese culture. Apparently Wen [...]
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As doctors, healers and delegates from all over the world gather together for the 4th annual World Ayurveda Congress & Expo in Bangalore this Thursday, December 9th, we have to wonder, should we be preparing ayurvedadork.com? Ayurveda, literally “science of life” in sanskrit, grew its roots thousands of years ago in, seeping into the Western [...]
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Monday Yoga Headlines: ‘Yacht couple Paul and Rachel Chandler: We kept fit by doing yoga and aerobics as the pirates watched us…we’re survivors’ [DailyMailUK] Hurray! Paul and Rachel are released from Somali pirate clutches after 388 days! How did they survive? Besides strong will, yoga and aerobics kept the two fit and focused. Talk about [...]
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Remain alert! Hide your bananas! Hanuman’s army is descending on New Delhi! OK, maybe not really, but there sure are a lot of stray monkeys swarming the streets! Task teams are out patrolling the city to keep thousands of these urban-dwelling, pesky fuzzballs out of President Obama’s business while he’s there this week. The mischievous [...]
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A young girl diagnosed with scoliosis is standing a lot taller these days, thanks to yoga! At age 11 Mia Latham, of the UK, was told she had an S-shaped spine and would need an operation to insert metal rods to support her heart and lungs, or would be wheelchair bound. Seeking alternatives to spinal [...]
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News from the East: They’re calling it Yoga’s “official” debut in China. The first Art of Living center was inaugurated Sunday at its new home, 165-acres of land on the banks of the Yangtse river in Beijing. Of course, yoga has actually been in China for years, and started to really catch on with the [...]
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News from New Delhi, India: Presenting…Planet Health! A yoga museum? Yes, a yoga museum! It’s actually a fully-dressed health museum designed to promote natural ways of healing like yoga and ayurveda, in entertaining digital-interactive form. Because learning about health is boring! Why study lamo texts when you can go explore digitized representations of yoga mudras [...]
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