Meet Jean Wharf. She was ticketed, booted, then denied reboarding by a transit cop on the SkyTrain in Vancouver, BC. Why? For wearing a “F*uck Yoga” pin of course! Because the cop loves yoga and he was mad miffed! No, that’s not true. Wharf, 21, did indeed wear the pin and refused to take it [...]
Meet Yasmin F. Gow. She just completed what could be a World Record for the longest yoga marathon! (pending Guinness approval). A serial marathon-er this one, before taking on the 32-hour non-stop yogathon she had already been well on her way through 108 sun salutations, for 108 consecutive days. Yas explained the mission on her [...]
There are lots of great ‘-athons’ out there, and sure you do yoga, but do you yogathon? Vancouver knows what we’re talking ’bout. This past weekend, 2,000 yogis turned out for the 8th annual Camp Moomba Yogathon & Blissfest to help raise funds for children living with HIV/AIDS. That’s two thousand people! Including the ‘couv’s [...]
UPDATE: More drunk yoga… Pretty quiet on the yoga news front today… it’s like everyone’s out celebrating major national holidays this week or something… oh we kid! Happy Canada Day you cute lil Canucks! *pinches cheeks* This has nothing to do with Canada Day (or does it?) but in yogadork style we don’t have to [...]
Now for your Canadian political news! Are you a Canuck who cares about politics AND yoga? Oh, we know, as if! But yogi lobes might perk up upon hearing news that liberal party leader and potential winner in the running for Canada’s Next Top Prime Minister just announced his vote for the Yog. Yep, Mister [...]
Fellow YogaDorks… Do we have any Canucks in the house? Here is your mission should you choose to accept it: Continuing today’s theme of “giving back”… This Sunday February 22 will see the world’s largest fundraiser involving yoga to promote awareness and to raise money for arthritis research. Power of Movement, the organization behind it [...]