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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YogaDorks Around the World: If you haven’t already viewed this, it’s a sight! Earlier this week the 2010 Commonwealth Games kicked off in India (kinda like the Olympics, but for the Commonwealth of Nations aka former British Empire). Among the opening ceremony spectacles was a ‘Padma Asana’ yoga presentation performed by 900 Delhi school kids! [...]
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More yoga in the army news! Great pic above – and no the soldier is not standing on his back! Look closer. (yes they are wearing socks, but that’s a purple mat…baby steps) This is straight from Army.mil so you know it’s serious. Not only is yoga now included in basic training, we’re seeing it [...]
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Too many kids dropping out of gym class? Change the game! In England, schools are cutting more traditional team sports like rugby and hockey in favor of activities like yoga to get kids moving. And it’s working! A study published by the Department for Education shows that participation in PE is rising. Via BBC News [...]
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When you think of Russia, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Yoga, right? We knew it! Well, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refers to himself as an “ardent yoga practitioner,” meets with BKS Iyengar on the Guru’s return to the country after a 20 year absence, and former first lady Naina Yeltsina [...]
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She won’t steal your pic-a-nic basket, but she could steal your heart. awww. Did we need this today or what? Meet Santra, the Yoga Bear who mesmerized Finland’s Ahtari Zoo goers with a 15 minute yoga practice! Says astounded bystander Meta Penca who snapped the shots, via UK’s Daily Mail: ‘It was exactly the same [...]
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We warned you of this. Here it is, “Don’t Say Goodbye” the Bappi Lahiri tribute to Michael Jackson featuring Rajashree Choudhury! Oh, and reportedly co-produced by none other than Bikram Choudhury himself. It’s like yoga to your ears, tapas style! And believe us when we say, the video will bring you to tears. So there [...]
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The Washington Post has joined in on the ‘Yoga Wars’ debate (who named it this anyway?) It’s been said the battles began when sweaty star Bikram Choudhury moved to patent his sequence of 26 poses back in ’04. Since then we’ve been hearing more and more about India reclaiming their ancient heritage by documenting yoga, [...]
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Not too long ago we saw Indian prisoners rewarded with early release for a regular incarcerated yoga practice. But now taxpayers in The UK are getting quite infuriated over footing the bill for life-sentence serving outlaws and criminals to find their inner chi. Naturally, families of victims are even more aghast at the idea. “You [...]
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