More trouble in Anusaraland. Let’s pause for a moment. Take a deep breath. Because this is some heavy shit. An anonymous tipster has sent us info that could potentially muddy the shiny, happy, image of John Friend and Anusara Inc., and shed some light on the recent flurry of exits by some of the brand’s foremost teachers like Elena Brower and Amy Ippoliti.
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January 2012 is Yoga Freedom Month. Did you know? The yoga community has come together in unity in the past to support varying causes from cancer cures to rebuilding Haiti. Yoga Freedom Project, a new organization co-created by Off the Mat NYC leader Heather Snyder, is on a mission to unite the yoga community to help put an end to sex trafficking.
Read on to learn more from Heather about the cause and what we as a community can do about the issue of sex trafficking. In NYC? Come out for the big event on the 31st! Maybe we’ll see you there.
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Is this contagious? Amy Ippoliti is the latest teacher to hand in her Anusara sash and branch from the pack, just as, we remind you, leader John Friend did with his Iyengar certificate years ago before creating his own empire. Elena Brower made huge news when she gracefully stepped down from her throne as resigning Anusara Empress back in November, along with Christina Sell and Darren Rhodes also sayonara-ing.
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Warning: Rant. First off, Trophy Yogis? Really, NY Post? Way to demoralize and insult an entire professional demographic, whittling yoga teachers down to inferior golddigging blingy-mudra’d arm candy. (we warned of a rant). This story on said “trophy yogis” with ginormous diamond rings (obvs. see pic) could have focused on the increase of hedge-funders more actively [...]
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While her letter of resignation was rapt with gratitudinal homage, it left little else, other than our own speculation, as to why Elena Brower, longtime devotee and female counterpart to John Friend, decided, after a decade under the Anusara designation, to curtsy and exit stage left. Then she replied to our post with this. In [...]
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The maven of mass yoga retires from her roots after more than a decade. Elena Brower, yoga teacher, studio owner and empowered woman of self-startingness has announced her departure from big daddy John Friend‘s formal Anusara certification. We could’ve said we saw this coming, what with Elena’s growth and subsequent skyrocketing into celeb status, quitting [...]
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The yogactivists have arrived to #OccupyWallSt! “My heart is open, my mouth is ready, the hair is big, and my friends are waiting. Got everything I need to join in and change the world!!!!!” Seane Corn announced Monday morning before leading approximately 100ish+ yoga folk and surrounding yogific protestors in a call to action. It [...]
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It’s when yogis get locked into the museum after hours and all the animals and exhibits come to life and wreak harmony in artifactual yoga! Just kidding. It’s yoga at some of the coolest museums in the country led by some of the name-droppingest yoga teachers of today. Hosted by none other than Flavorpill, the [...]
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As it turns out the maven of mass yoga, Elena Brower, can draw a crowd anywhere! Oui oui. Approximately 2,000-3,000 yogis showed up all dressed in white to practice yoga under the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday October 2nd. It was France’s largest ever yoga session led by the “célèbre yogi New Yorkaise” in [...]
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Guest Post From Christa in New York: Curating a Creative Life “Figure out your service on this planet. Figure out how that service nourishes the Earth and go do that.” ~ Elena Brower On Monday night, through a tip from the always-in-the-know Yogadork and by the grace of Mike Kim, I was able to attend [...]
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