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It's been over a month now since I tweaked my shoulder coming into an upward facing dog. I haven't had a nagging injury like this since the great hamstring pull of 2003; that took forever to heal. I'm trying to take my own advice on yoga injuries and not practice...
Hey, you! Yes, you, the one hunched over your computer. Come up for air for a minute. Take a break. Do these desk stretches. Your back will thank you. Wednesday Stretch Break originally appeared on About.com Yoga on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 07:01:56.Permalink | Comment | Email this...
Pyramid Pose - Parsvottonasana Is the Yoga Pose of the Week
A reader recently wrote me to ask the difference between pyramid pose and what I call straight leg lunge (which I know isn't a great name, since a lunge just isn't a lunge without a bent leg, but this pose is what happens when you are in a lunge and...
The first month of the new year is drawing to a close. If you didn't accomplish all your goals this month, don't worry, because you get a chance to start again with a new month. In fact, why even wait for February first? Each new day offers up the opportunity...
The yoga blogosphere and twitterverse were a-chatter today over this article in the New York Times: When Chocolate and Chakras Collide. The article describes a yoga/foodie event where people pay to have a gourmet dinner after a yoga class, and then segues into a discussion of various yoga teachers takes...
Yoga/public service organization Off The Mat Into The World has organized a yoga studio benefit for the victims of Haiti's recent earthquake. Studios participating in the January 27 (that's tomorrow) event will donate a portion of their daily profits to help the recovery efforts in Haiti. Check this list of...
Yogatic
I’ve been having the flu now for a few days already, and I have noticed how badly I react. My own advice, given back to me by my husband : ) , to “accept it and relax into it” seems impossible! The only thing I seem to feel is a...
Yoga for weight loss (part 4) – Thighs & Butt
Hi Everyone, Here it is, the final episode of yoga for weight loss. All about the thighs and the buttocks. whether you want to lose weight or just bring your body in shape. these are enjoyable exercises to do and you will notice a difference if you do them diligently. I...
We are all familiar with desires, whether they are desires like having another job or being healthier. Or more yoga related desires like being more flexible or becoming the new blogger for yoga journal Buddha teaches us that there are only two movements that motivate us. The movement away...
Yoga for Weightloss (part 3) – Abs and Core
Hi Everyone, Welcome to Part 3 of the Weight Loss series. This yoga video is all about working the stomach, abdominal muscles. This is often case a problem area if you want to loose weight, besides that strong abs does a lot for feeling more confident and strong in the world....
How to discipline yourself to a daily yoga practice
Isn’t a disciplined daily yoga practice the thing to try to achieve as a motivated yoga practitioner. Especially so when discipline doesn’t come natural to you. Since the day I started to take yoga serious and realized the many spiritual and health benefits I’ve been wanting to practice daily. Having a...
Today someone asked me a question about how to approach teaching in a gym? She felt that most people coming to her class in the gym approached yoga differently. That they come to sweat it out! Not interested in the “yoga philosophy”. These days there is a lot of discussion about...
Yoga Flavored Life
Shiva Rea: Yoga Shakti (Two DVD set) ASIN: 1591791847 One of my New Year’s resolutions this year is to expand my practice past the half-dozen or so DVD’s I use on a regular basis and try something a little more challenging. After quiet contemplation at the end of my last workout,...
The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living
The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living By: Stephen Cope (2007) ISBN 978-0553380545 With the crisis in Haiti still at the center of our attention, we are going to take another one of this author’s notorious segues off the beaten trail before discussing this beautiful book by Stephen...
Pictures often say things no words can truly describe. This image-article is dedicated to those who lost their lives as well as those struggling to survive in one of the Earth’s poorest nations… On January 12th, 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale. This...
Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being(2002) Steven Rapp. ISBN-10: 1580231624 AND Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jewish Wisdom Through Classic Postures (Arthur Kurzweil Books)(2004) Diane Bloomfield. ISBN – 10: 0787970573 Welcome back! If you missed the first part of the review last week, you may find it here. Words of wisdom “Yoga...
A Different Kind of Resolution
photo credit: Elaine with Grey Cats I had a great New Year’s day. I attended a yoga class at a studio that I love with an amazing teacher who always brings cool insights to class and reminds me of why I love yoga. There is always something new to learn and...
Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being(2002) Steven Rapp. ISBN-10: 1580231624 AND Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jewish Wisdom Through Classic Postures (Arthur Kurzweil Books)(2004) Diane Bloomfield. ISBN – 10: 0787970573 Merry Christmas! I do hope that yours was time spent with loved ones, sharing laughter and good food. A few...
Yogoer
On Saturday, I took a break from all the screens, cursors, and endless tidbits of information that filter through to our various in-boxes. I was exhausted and worn out, and my creativity was taking a serious nose dive. I closed my Mac, turned off my phone, and collapsed in a...
Dana Yoga with Yogoer, Mondays in Tribeca
Computer counterposes, by donation. We’re turning the GreenSpaces office into a yoga studio! Mondays in February, bring your mat to Tribeca. We’ll practice some dana yoga. Classes are by donation; you can leave a hundred dollars, or just a smile! Buddhists call the act of giving dana, it’s a way to...
Sangha Yoga Shala, the new-ish “Community House” in Williamsburg, is offering a free class with founder Alana Kessler! On Tuesday, Sangha Yoga Shala will make sure that finding yourself in an awkward position leaves you more centered than bent out of shape. As part of its “free yoga Tuesdays,” the studio...
At the suggestion of a friend, I've been reading a lot of Joseph Campbell lately. I recently watched his DVD interviews with Bill Moyers around the idea of myth and the hero's journey. A piece of the interviews that really caught my attention is their discussion about the importance of...
Thank you Brokelyn! The awesome blog about “living big on small change” researched a list of massages under $50. There’s one five blocks from my house! Check it out here: http://www.brokelyn.com/massages-for-50-and-under-in-brooklyn/...
Curious about acupuncture? Gotham Wellness is offering another happy hour tomorrow. I went last month and really enjoyed it. Stephanie, the founder, is warm, smart, and (practically) painless. Happy Hour Acupuncture will take place this Friday, January 22 from 5:30-7:30 pm. This will be the last happy hour until February 19th. Feel...
Yoga for Life Blog
Feb 5, Yoga Breathing Lessons On How To Start Pranayama
Yoga Breathing Lessons Provide You An Opporunity To Learn And Benefit From Wonderful Yoga Breathing Techniques...
Feb 5, Beginning Yoga, Get Started With Simple Yoga Positions For Beginners
Beginning Yoga: How To Do Yoga? Instructions For A Simple Yoga Sequence...
Jan 31, Free Online Yoga Lessons In Yoga For Starting Your Yoga Workout At Home
Are You Wondering How To Start Yoga, Here Are Free Online Yoga Lessons For Starting Your Yoga Workout At Home...
Jan 25, How Yogic Breathing Can Improve Health and Vitality?
Find Out How Yogic Breathing Can Improve Your Health And Increase Your Energy Levels...
Jan 10, Yoga FAQs, Frequently Asked Questions About Yoga For Beginners
Yoga FAQs For Beginners, Answers To Most Frequently Asked Questions About Yoga By Beginners...
Jan 8, Yoga Nidra For Deep Relaxation Experience
Yoga Nidra Is An Ideal Way To Physical And Mental Relaxation. It Harmonises The Body, Helps To Get Rid Of Insomnia And Stress Related Problems...
Linda's Yoga Journey
"The obligation to go to "the place which the Lord your God will choose" (Deut. 16:16)""In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance.""Journey to a shrine or other sacred place undertaken to gain divine aid, as an act of thanksgiving or penance,...
T-shirts to help you remember, moment to moment
The Yoga Journey Boutique"We only use clothing from North America, produced to be washed and worn for years. With regard to print quality, we use flex and flock leading technology and water-based ink. You will not wearing a low quality printed T-shirt!Wordans uses only trusted brands such as American Apparel,...
donation update and until we meet again
I mailed a check today to the Seva Foundation in the amount of $200 asking it to be used specifically for the Kilimanjaro Center for Community Ophthalmology. You can read about the eye clinic here.A big hug and thanks to:ShelleyBoband Svastifor their donations!If anyone else wants to donate, please...
Lots of good advice here, but my three favorites are nos. 21, 33, and 37.HEALTH:1. Drink plenty of water.2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like beggar.3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is...
photo ©Loba Landscapes, 2009An oldie but a goodie that I think is appropriate for this time of the year....Making Room for New GrowthWhenever I talk on mindfulness meditation (or mindfulness training as I call it now) I always throw out these questions: how many of you are working on...
This is all that any of us really need.Merry ChristmasHappy Holidayspeaceshantiasalaam 'alaykumMAY ALL BEINGS HAVE HAPPINESS AND THE CAUSES OF HAPPINESSMAY ALL BEINGS BE FREE FROM SUFFERING AND THE CAUSES OF SUFFERINGMAY ALL BEINGS NEVER BE PARTED FROM FREEDOM'S TRUE JOYMAY ALL BEINGS DWELL IN EQUANIMITY, FREE FROM ATTACHMENT AND...
Yoga Marrakech
Sunday febuary 7 at 8h30 to 11h30 at cinema collisee in gueliz is another exciting, invigorating and inspiring yoga workshop here in Marrakech. This time the context is the relationshiop of opposites and how they play out in the performance and practice of yoga. Open to anyone from beginner to experienced, you...
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YIN YANG YOGA WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 15
Due to the success and so much fun of the last yin yang mudra yoga workshop we have another approaching Nov 15. Continuing on the theme of yin, slow, deep holding of poses to acheive the more yang outward asanas, we will breakdown, explore, creative, align various asanas in various rhythms...
TRANCE Marrakechs only and first yoga center, studio, will open its door in January 2010 with what promises to be a year filled with holistics, yoga, dance, seminars, and spa. March 8 sees a 7 day Ashtanga Power Yoga intensive with Americain teacher Larry Schultz and Jan will see ongoing classes...
TRANCE – MARRAKECHS FIRST HEALING YOGA CENTER
Construction is moving fast with few bumps along the way so far. The yoga studio will be finished and open March with a rocket yoga intensive with USA teacher Its Yoga Larry Schultz. Morning and Evening yoga will be practiced along with pranayama, meditation and chanting. The full scale of the...
Come explore the elements of power yoga in a yin yang style,, flowing through yet holding asanas for appropriate length allows us to deeper explore while maintaining the prana and heat needed to open, cleasne and heal. Workshop will explore mudra as a channel, vibration and the opening heart mantras that...
Yoga News
Heidi Montag practices Kundalini yoga to get back in shape after plastic surgeries
American television personality and recording artist Heidi Montag has started intensive yoga to get back in shape after multiple dramatic plastic surgeries, according to reports....
The Schizophrenia Society of Ontarioa TMs Halton/Peel Regional office is holding a Yogathon fundraiser at The Meeting House....
Businesswomen to the foreSemi historic Marco building has all-women tenants
Posted February 5, 2010 at 9:32 a.m. Photo by QUENTIN ROUX, Staff Buy this photo>> Bill "BK" Koetting with his female tenants who run businesses from the building behind....
With school in full gear and midterms creeping up around the corner, students look for cheap ways to de-stress and unwind....
Answers From a Yoga Instructor, Part 2
Following is the second set of responses from Bryn Chrisman, a vinyasa flow yoga teacher and kirtan leader in New York City....
Yoga and Bouncing Back to Health After a New Baby
This morning on KSEE Sunrise we welcomed back Katie Flinn from COIL Yoga, who with the help of yoga instructor Sarah Schaaf, showed us how yoga can help you bounce back to health after a new baby....
YogaDudes
Get a Free One Year Subscription to Fitness Magazine
I stumbled across this amazing deal this morning from Buy.com. They are offering their customers a free subscription to Fitness magazine. I'm not quite sure how they will know if you are a customer or not, but it's worth a try at scoring yourself a free subscription. The one thing...
Great Deal on Natural Health Magazine
Grab a deal on another one of my favorite magazines! Today only (Feb. 4) you can get a full year subscription to Natural Health magazine for only $5.39. This deal is good for both new subscriptions as well as renewals. If you are interested in natural foods, crafts, outdoor sports,...
February YogaDudes Desktop Calendar
In honor of Valentine's Day our February desktop calendar features a pair of elephants doing their own version of Partner Yoga. How sweet. To make it your desktop wallpaper, just click on the image above and a larger image will open in a new window. Right click on that larger...
I just realized that this almost has a double meaning. Not only did I get my first facial chemical peel last week, improving the appearance of my skin and face, but the YogaDudes web site under went a complete overhaul. It was time a fresh new, cleaner, simpler look. Let...
I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time . . . the day that I can say my first experience teaching yoga is behind me. I guess I saw this as an initiation; sort of like using clip-in pedals for the first time. You know you’re gonna forget...
Did you know that Saturday, January 23 is Yoga Day USA. On this day thousands of people across the country will come together for a history-making celebration where yogis, novices, couch potatoes and triathletes, young, old and everyone in between join together to stretch mind, body and spirit through the...
Yoga Blog - My Yoga Online
New Nutrition Articles-Learn about Leeks and Kale
My Yoga Online has added 2 new great nutrition article by Carol DiPirro: The Nutritious World of Leeks and Kale-Veggie Superstar Leeks, a member of the onion and garlic family, have long been grown and cooked in Europe and the Mediterranean. Historians claim Nero ate leeks in soup regularly, thinking they...
New Belly Dance Power video on My Yoga Online
My Yoga Online has added a new 30 minute Belly Dance Power video with Gillian Cofsky. Experience a well-rounded belly dance class which includes a brief warm-up/stretch, muscular conditioning for the legs and core, and the break down and drilling of some basic bellydance moves which are strung together...
The Yoga Path: The Silver Lining of Soul
The very heart of the spiritual path is a search for inner peace and when you practice your daily discipline you help translate your individual realization to the larger whole. Society is comprised of its members just as your body is composed of its cells. When you take responsibility...
My Yoga Online has added a new Yoga Anatomy Video Workshop by yoga expert David Keil: The Knee Yoga Anatomy. Enjoy this new addition to our yoga anatomy workshop series. Understanding the proper function of the knee and the application of yoga poses will prevent injuries and support...
Restorative Yoga Video For Deep Calm
My Yoga Online has posted a new 98 minute yoga class by Rick Coe: Restorative Yoga For Deep Calm. This Restorative Yoga Class goes through poses intended to create a deep calm in your body and leave you feeling grounded and clear. The postures gently open and release tension...
Yoga teaches you to listen to your own inner voice. It is a process of awakening and attunement that defines personal integrity by the depth of each students’ connection with themselves. Through pain, pleasure, injury, ecstasy and bliss yoga invites practitioners to travel down the rabbit hole of personal discovery...
YogaHub.com
A good friend’s 50th birthday is coming up soon and some of us have decided to throw her a surprise birthday party. She’s a wonderful person who’s full of energy and enthusiasm – and she never hesitates to lend a helping hand when someone needs it. She’s also a self-proclaimed “yoga...
Virtually Impossible to Resist!
Oh wow… I recently received YogaHub’s latest newsletter about the Virtual World Yoga Conference that’s taking place from February 19 to 21. It really caught my interest so I decided to check it out in more detail. Now, by nature I have to admit that I’m somewhat wary of signing up for...
Once a week, Mumsie and I go to our local church to help prepare sandwiches and hot food, which we then serve to the homeless. Someone once criticized our efforts at the soup kitchen, saying we were just doing it to make ourselves feel good. Well, that’s true – in a...
Finding Balance after a Chiropractic Session
It’s been a long time since I had my last Chiropractic adjustments – maybe eight months or so. I knew through our daily yoga practice that some parts of my physical body had shifted out of place because during the past four months of consistent practice, I have not been...
Now that I’ve become a self-proclaimed enthusiastic expert in using my Neti Pot, I’ve been on the lookout for someone to share this great experience with. And – all joking aside – it really is a great experience. I don’t even think twice about going through the process every night, now...
Happy new year, everyone! I can hardly believe another year has flown by and we’re now in 2010! This means it’s time to make another New Year’s resolution and then see how long it’ll take me to break it… No, actually, this year I’m determined (just like I was last year…and...
Yoga Buzz
Long time yoga blogger, YogaDawg, announced yesterday that he is calling it quits to pursue his passion for painting. For years his blog, My Itchy Third Eye, and website, YogaDawg.com, have provided us with hilarious yoga satire that reminded us......
Today, The New York Times City Room blog posted that Bryn Chrisman, a vinyasa flow yoga teacher in New York City, will be responding to readers' questions "about her path to yoga, her current job, her practice, kirtan and other......
If you've ever had a sleepless night, you know how frustrating it can be to lay in bed wide awake, mind spinning or body aching, when all you want to do is sleep. Insomnia affects 54 percent of adults in......
Possibly the biggest debate in the yoga community is around food, ahimsa (non-harming), and health. Today's New York Times includes an in-depth article on the wide range of ideas and philosophies surrounding yoga and food. Can you be a yogi......
Last week, I posted a great video of local news anchors doing yoga. This week, I thought I'd follow up with an adorable video of a CBS news anchor practicing desk yoga with Kristin McGee. If you're sitting at your......
It's (Almost) Yoga Day! How Will You Celebrate?
This weekend, there is no reason not to get your asana to a yoga class! Saturday, January 23rd is Yoga Day USA, which means there will be lots of opportunities to practice yoga for free or at reduced prices.Yoga......
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