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Have you noticed an increase of coconuts in your face lately? Coconut water to be more specific - those juicy cartons seem to be everywhere we turn! Is it just in NY? Well have no fear rest of the country, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, you too will have the pleasure of thirsting over coconut water ads very soon!   It’s [...]

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Hey do you know Bappi Lahiri? He’s a bling-studded juggernaut of the Bollywood film scene and is quite lovingly revered as the man responsible for injecting Hindi cinema with infectious disco music infusion! Did you know he was a huge fan of Michael Jackson and that the ‘King of Pop’ was a legend in India? [...]

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Hey! This one’s for the hot tamales! [Above] Bikram demonstrates on a lobster his meticulous method of discovering what temperature was just too hot for yoga! As we mentioned yesterday, Bikram blessed Boston with his presence, and decided, we guess, to make a time of it. SPOTTED: “Yogi Bikram Choudhury dining on lobster with 50 [...]

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Just when we thought Bikram was getting cold on us…ye old steamy one, master of Sweat and atomic balls rises from the desert! As if we hadn’t had enough proper Ferrari talk Captain Cocksure informs us of why we should disobey traffic laws, speed 200 mph down the freeway at 2am, and push the pedal [...]

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Hot under the collar about being laid off? Burned out on job search? If you live in Scottsdale, AZ, that’s understandable, it’s going to be 100 degrees today! But, if you’re thirsty for stress relief, out of a job, and really in need of that extra sizzle, by like 10 degrees, stop on by the [...]

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Yes, yes it’s also St. Patrick’s Day. Erin Go Braugh! You’re probably too bleary-eyed to be reading anything “serious” today, especially through those green beer goggles you’ve got on, eh? So it’s our pleasure to share with you a colorful collection, if you will, of quotes from everyone’s favorite Yoga ‘Don’ Bikram Choudhury, brought to [...]

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What good is history if we can’t learn from it, right? Lots of experts, and non-perts, are pontificating on comparisons of today’s financial meltdown to 1930′s Depression Era America. And they’re finding plenty of similarities in the political and financial departments – big banks, bubbles, unemployment, New Deals – but what of the nation’s health?  [...]

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India says no more of this patenting yoga rubbish. D’ya hear that Bikram? We reported at the beginning of the year India was already headlong into an effort to “preserve” their history of yoga, and even going so far as to open a Yoga Museum in Mumbai. To further the efforts, a team of 200 [...]

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Neal Pollack is a dad, an Alternadad who does yoga (among other things, apparently).  Papa Pollack is an Ashtangi, not a Bikramite, which is why we give him yoga props for venturing into the alternate universe that is Bikramland at the 6th Annual International Yoga Asana Championship, better known as a Bikram love-in, a couple [...]

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Ah yes, we yogadorks do love a good Bikram article – there’s always some sort of outlandish quote to fuel the fire of controversy. To kick off the weekend BBC Magazine does not disappoint in their take on that which is the “Yoga Wars,” or rather the continued controversy over Bikram’s competitive style and the [...]

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