From the category archives:
Pepsi is generally known around these parts as the big megalomaniacal sugar-smacked corporate monster trying to rot our teeth and give us health problems, but every once in a while they do something to make us happy that even a portion of the gazillions of dollars of profit they make every year is put towards [...]
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Is donating your yoga mat really helping the people of Haiti? This image popped up on James Follows blog over at The Atlantic yesterday and has since been splashed across the web with the likes of Gawker, Boing Boing and HuffPo all having a crack at it, inciting references to Alicia Silverstone’s character in Clueless [...]
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It’s truly amazing what people can accomplish when they join together and act. The call to support Haiti in this crisis has been resonating around the world, and we’re hoping the outpouring of assistance will keep flowing from caring communities to those in need. We’re especially proud of the way the yoga community has been [...]
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These days you don’t have to dig too deep to find news about how yoga has positively benefited yet another group of individuals, whether they be high school jocks, yuppies, troops in Iraq, cancer survivors, or addiction recoverees. We’ve been a bit snippy snap with the news crew over at TIME mag, (they had it [...]
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Because it’s Wednesday! And really what else are you doing that’s sooo important that you can’t watch some visual stimulation. And who knows, you might learn something!
The publicity-shy almost, 90-year old speaks about his yoga (don’t call it HIS yoga), the why and how the practice restored his health after being stricken with disease as [...]
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We were just discussing the merits of doctors suggesting yoga to their patients. Granted, that was in TV-land, so let’s change that dial to something we like to call real life. It’s harder than it looks, and it’s even harder when this living thing involves coping with an often debilitating disease like cancer. Not only [...]
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And so, it is September. We Northern hemispherers are experiencing what some perceive as the descent into the twilight of the year, a transition into the lovely season known as Autumn. Always a pensive and taming time of year, the contemplative mood is made ever more poignant by reminders of events that happened in the [...]
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We’ve heard the connection and success yoga has had in improving the lives of people with addictions. This is the first time we can say we’ve seen it.
‘Addiction, Recovery and Yoga’ is a documentary film that takes a realistic approach to telling the stories of recovered addicts, through 12 steps and other outreach programs and [...]
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Hey you fabulous New Yorkers, we know you’ve been itching for a chance to give back. And these days we know some of you may be scratching the bottom of your wallets, right? SO we are quite happy to present a chance to contribute without breaking the bank, and also have a ball at the [...]
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We’re going to preface this by saying HEY READ THIS! The Washington Post’s story on ‘Yoga Accessibility‘ is probably one of the most important articles we’ve seen about yoga in a while. And we recommend that you clip and save, or interweby bookmark this one for future reference as well as pass around to your [...]
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