From the category archives:

Public Display of Yoga

Via Well+Good NYC
Naked bums for our animal chums! NYC yoga teachers go au naturale in support of PETA.
Sadly, all we’re missing are Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life.
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Earlier…

Tara Stiles Launches ‘Slim, Calm, Sexy’ Yoga to Acclaim, Insult, Revolt (see marketing)
Caption This: BKS Iyengar Blesses Bikram Choudhury in India? (photo)

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So Bikram and Iyengar walk into a bar…well, sorta.

My, Bikram, what a bulbous shiny dome you have, perfect for ‘circus’ tricks like headstand! Let me get you a strap, for your ego, er…elbows.
It’s Tuesday, the last day of August, and this photo has us tickled with befuddlement.
This was not photoshopped!
Via facebook:
Bikram receiving a blessing from [...]

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Were you sad over the Central Park Yoga wash-out? Pissed about being stuck in the long lines? Annoyed by the in-your-face brand marketing transcending the yoga message? We don’t blame you, it was a bummer! But when Yoga @ the Great Lawn was the largest, shortest yoga class on record due to inclement weather, the [...]

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Speaking of Kim Kardashian’s posterior…(ahem)
we know you’re curious how she keeps her shape right? Glory be! It’s yoga!
Here she is in all her tangerine glory, the 29-year-old demonstrating yoga moves in her backyard for the UK’s Daily Mail, you know, as celebrities do. Turns out Ms. K does yoga, watches what she eats and goes [...]

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And now the next episode from the Yogi’s Believe It Or Not bizarro bin! It’s Nathalie Djurberg’s “Snakes Know It’s Yoga” a claymation art installation with images that speak for their creatively freaky selves. It’s always interesting to see how yoga is used in art. This particular case has us fascinated and wincing in a [...]

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Uh oh, are we about to have a ‘Thriller’-esque showdown at the cemetery? TMZ reports, Devotees of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) are intending to make their pilgrimage to the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA for the regular prayer ritual today. Namaste! But the structure is also home to the resting body of late pop [...]

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Times Square is a circus!
Talk about a Public Display of Yoga, these guys wrote the rule book.  Presenting the Acro Yogis of NYC!  If you’ve been to any yoga parties/hooplas/broohahas, in NYC especially, you’ve encountered at least a couple of these yogi daredevils hoisting folks into the air with the draw of Cirque du Soleil, [...]

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OK here goes…
The New York Times ‘Yoga’s Serious. Except When It’s Not.’
Official response: HOLY MOLY!

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On July 19th The New York Times published an article in the Sunday Magazine entitled “The Yogul Mogul”, an in-depth look at Anusara, Inc., it’s leader (the mogul) John Friend, and essentially framing the overall big picture of the thriving state of this modern day yoga industry. It was not a fluff piece, and many [...]

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Oh hello there Mr. Sexy Eyes! We hope that’s just your post-yoga grin, not your post-yoga ‘that blood smoothie was delicious!’ face. That handsome fellow there is one Mr. Ian Somerhalder, who broke more than a few hearts as Boone on Lost. Remember that show? Sadly, his character died, but fear not, he is alive [...]

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