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Bikram’s Yoga Asana Championships are really picking up steam – we may even see it (competitive yoga) in the Olympics! Of course, lotsa yogadorks are wondering if this is a serious push and just how close they are to persuading the International Olympic Committee to come to the sweaty side. Answer? We don’t know! However, [...]
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Speaking of Yog-Olympians…
Today more buzzworthy mutterings of yoga headed to London 2012! Bikram and Co have been working tirelessly for the past few years, forging their hot yoga torch in hopes of making asana a sport in the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, but will they succeed? We pointed out how what a crrrazy coincidence it [...]
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Yesterday we were musing about lululemon’s stronghold on the color red and ganking of the Olympic Spirit. Today we have the world yoga cup live on our internets! It’s the USA Yoga Asana Championship! And it’s kicked off the same day as the opening to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. A coincidence? Is it [...]
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We’ve been causing a ruckus with the Competitive Yoga discussion lately, and even heard back from team Bikram about it! Today we’re just going to shut our yogadorky mouths and ogle. The New York Times trekked out to the New York Regional Yoga Championship a few weeks ago and captured the event with some insightful [...]
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Two weeks ago we posed the precarious question: Competitive Yoga: Vicious or Vindicated? and more essentially “can you win at yoga?” And not surprisingly lots of YD readers piped up with a range of steamed and thoughtful opinions. But what we didn’t expect was a personal response from the blog at Bikram NYC! Yoga Lily [...]
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“Inner peace and spirituality can suck it!”
We heart Tim Murphy! The yogi who looks like he just sashayed out of a pub into class. A salty downdog if you will.
New York Mag sent Tim to bravely venture into the twisted world of competitive yoga at the 7th Annual Yoga Asana Competition in NYC, October 25. [...]
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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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On the opening day of the 2008 Olympic Games it seems only fitting to mention the continued dispute of whether or not yoga should be considered an olympic sport, or whether it’s a sport at all. While the debate lingers on, competitive yogists are doing their darndest to win over the International Olympic Commission in the hopes of convincing them by the 2020 [...]
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