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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Cuteness! Time for yoga, but you’ve got the kids? Everyone yoga! This video of Elena Brower and Ally Hamilton with their little ones is pretty adorable whether you have yogamunchkins or not. Has even we as-of-yet spawnless yogis getting misty-eyed. Love to yoga mommas. [YogaEarth via MindBodyGreen] The Elena clip is taken from an earlier [...]
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Hey it’s a new yogamentary! On women! Shocker, right? Women practice yoga? Really though, Yogawoman is a film on how yoga, and the subculture surrounding it, has been embraced, bolstered and transformed by women the world over. It’s as much about female empowerment as it is about yoga practice. Some critics are already disagreeing over [...]
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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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There’s been plenty of outcry and response on the interwebs over the less than lovey-dovey ‘Yoga Mogul’ NYTimes article. Yet, John Friend himself has remained commentless, er mostly. JF is a bona fide twitterbug dispatching tweets from the road; the road being all over the planet as he spreads the Anusara seed. We know he’s [...]
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Just minutes after announcing the official new World’s Record (urdb.org) for largest registered yoga class, cheers! Down came the rain and washed the yogis out!* Elena took the stage around 7:30 accompanied by the one and only Dharma Mittra and fellow yogi demo-ers (including Sadie Nardini and Alison West). There was a wave of “om’s” [...]
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OMG..it’s on! Just as we had predicted, Central Park is gearing up for the biggest spirited gathering since Simon & Garfunkel! June 22 could very well go down in the history books as the largest gathering of hippies, yippies and yogadorks of all shapes and sizes the world has ever seen! Hosted by flavorpill (who [...]
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Hey New York earthlings, got Earth Day plans? The yoga fans at flavorpill (folks behind MoMA YoGA and GYDO) have sprung on us a great event once again. This time it’s yoga with Elena Brower followed by yummy treats and an “Earth bar”… ? keep reading. The deets: On April 22nd, The Standard, New York [...]
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Not to be confused with World Yoga Day (Jan 31), Yoga Day USA is the happy baby of mama org, Yoga Alliance, and was created “to raise awareness and change lives through the proven mental and physical benefits of Yoga.” And it’s just around the corner! This Saturday January 23 to be exact. Hadn’t heard [...]
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