From the category archives:

This Week in Yoga

The good, the bad, the ugly, sexy, happy as pie.  That’s pretty much where we’re at this week. yum.
Here’s What Happened This Week In Yoga:

Did you see Eat, Pray, Love? Are you in the triumph or turd category? [read more]
Yoga is sexy! Should we care if the ads are? YOU voted. See the results and [...]

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A short recap this week of all that happened in the world of yoga so that you busy bees can just whip through the news all at once and make it to another showing of Eat, Pray, Love!  If you’re still curious about the film, we saw it, and have a handy 5-point review.
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After last week’s turn of yogic bedlam, we’ve been operating on a cocktail of exhaustion fumes and settling dust, but we must march on! If you’ve ever heard the story of Virabhadra you know he is one mean battling machine. Though really it doesn’t take a scholar to recognize that the yoga poses named after [...]

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If we thought last week was showing signs of the yogapocalypse, we’d been blissfully under prepared for what The New York Times had in store! Seriously, where was the in-flight safety card demonstration? To borrow a word from the most talked about NYT-On-Yoga article from last Sunday – that one about the state of yoga [...]

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When you have a yoga news week with headlines trumpeting opera, prison, kitty cats, and drunken yogi vengeance, you have to wonder, how close are we to the yogapocalypse?? be like the buddha cat…
Here’s what happened this week on YD – ‘Lessons Learned’ edition:
Lesson #1: Upon tossing back a few adult beverages, do not attempt [...]

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Right, so this week happened. You were all here to witness it!  But did you miss out on yoga news listening to all the deplorably explicit Mel Gibson rage tapes? Good grief. We won’t even get into how much that man needs a good slap of the pranayama stick. Anyway, we hope you’ve had a chance [...]

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This week was one for the history books. If you’re a Northeastern American you know what we’re talking about! America’s birthday ushered us in from fireworks to a triple digit heat wave providing us all with free hot yoga classes right there on the pavement! Oy. Hope y’all are staying hydrated!
Here’s what happened this week [...]

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As we yanks set forth in celebrations of Independence let us recall the week in Yoga, and lift our glasses in a toast to freedom! (aand…fireworks, barbecues and days off!) Here’s a quick little recap of what happened ‘This Week in Yoga’, followed by your favorite, Yogini Martini, patriotic style.
This Week in Yoga:
Explosive! Adriana Lima [...]

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“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton
Admittedly, this week was a lot less glamorous and paparazzi flashbulb-filled than last week — and seemed to be a lot more of blowing raspberries and sticking out our tongues in the general direction of life– but [...]

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This week started out on a somber note. On Monday, the yoga world mourned the loss of a great light, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, at age 93. We expressed our extreme gratitude for Guruji, adding to the chorus of many other voices offering love and kind words.
As for the rest of the week, well…
We found [...]

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