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Love Is In the Air – Reduce Stress, Get More Air Time with Your Own Oxygen Mask

Now of course this is an extreme situation of how being short on breath begets less breath, how tension and anxiety further progress tension and anxiety. But as I watched William I realized how most ...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

Yoga for Autism Improving Lives

Theres a great story out of Boulder, CO about yoga being used as a tool to help kids in the autism spectrum. Weve seen yoga play a therapeutic role for people living with a variety of conditions from...

3 days ago 1 person likes this

To Heel or Not To Heel…The Toe-nnoying Truth About High Heels

One of my clients in her 20s complained about cramping and pain around her right big toe. I asked her a few questions and found out she just started working (1 month ago) at her first professional jo...

5 days ago

Why is Down Dog So Darn Good for You?

This article about yogis best friend has been wagging around the interwebs for the past week. As it turns out, Downward Facing Dog (or adho mukha svanasana for the Sanskrit dorks) isnt just a good st...

5 days ago

John Friend On Taking Over the World (rare video)

This video has come to our attention via several tipsters and we have reason to believe it is legit and worthy of viewing in light of recent events and pardon the expression, ongoing shitfest. The or...

27 may 12 1 person likes this

YD Giveaway: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar from 1959 to 1975

So were especially grateful to experience the teachings of BKS Iyengar through the work of his student Noëlle Perez-Christiaens who gathered and compiled the material for this book from class notes a...

24 may 12

Yoga Art, Just Like Paris at the Turn of the Century – Robert Sturman, Photographer

Some of you have already heard of this guy, maybe read about the girl in the red dress or have seen his latest photo feature now on The New York Times blog. That’s one thing we can count on in ...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

Alec Baldwin on Yoga and Being in a Nutritionally-Com patible Relationship (video)

In this Hollywood Reporter clip from Cannes, 30 Rock star and Jack-spired guru, Alec Baldwin, shares his problems getting started with yoga and how being in a health-compatible relationship has helpe...

21 may 12 2 people like this

Grab Your Glow-Ga Sticks: Yoga Raves All the Rage

“Meditation is really discovering the love and the bliss that can be inside, and dancing is such a natural expression of that. Just connecting to the pulse, to the music, it allows that energy that’s...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

Future of Anusara Still a Confusing Hot Mess

While some of you would rather vinyasa over hot coals than hear more Anusara beeswax, there are still many practitioners, teachers and bystanders left in limbo, feeling frustrated and utterly perplex...

20 may 12 1 person likes this

Sadie Nardini’s ‘Rock Your Yoga’ (A Poetic Review)

If you havent heard, rockstardom does not limit itself from the radittude of yogahood. In fact, YouTube star turned TV show lady, Sadie Nardini is so certain YOU too can be a rockstar yogi she is cur...

18 may 12

Anusara, John Friend Update: Back to Business

More committees, John will teach in September, and it’s back to business at Anusara, Inc. Update posted 2 hrs ago via Facebook. (the comments are interesting and mixed predominantly opposed.) P...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

When the Honeymoon is Over (A Yoga Love Story)

I’ve had a long, tumultuous relationship with yoga. We first met in the early 90s and were inseparable, until a misguided physical therapist told me yoga was bad for my neck (boy was he wrong). After...

17 may 12

YD Interview: Diamond Dallas Page on DDP Yoga, INTENSE Inspiration, ‘Head Fakes’ and the 90%

Diamond Dallas Page may be a former 3 time world champion wrestler who eschews yoga "mumbo jumbo" in exchange for chaturanga pushups. He may have been that guy posing with half naked women to...

16 may 12

Bethenny Frankel Tries to Squeeze in Mommy Yoga Time, Moms Everywhere Empathize

Maybe you know Bethenny Frankel from one of her many reality shows (ie The Real Housewives of New York City, Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny Getting Married, etc.) or from her Skinnygirl enterprises or...

15 may 12

Guinness Book’s ‘World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher’ at 93, Tao Porchon-Lynch

Congrats to Tao Porchon-Lynch! For making the record books and successfully making us feel duly inspired and incredibly lazy!

15 may 12

Yoga Gets Easier from Comfort of Your Home, on Demand

Do you have a home practice? Admit it, not all of us have time to shuffle off to the studio at 5:30am, 6 days a week. No offense Ashtangis! Seriously though, there are days when life gets in the way ...

14 may 12

Making Time: The Ultimate Mommy and Baby Yoga Experience

Because baby bumps are the hottest new Hollywood trend, so is the conversation about post-baby bodies. Yet, despite the public expectation of women to have elastic bodies, as yogis, we know how not t...

12 may 12

YogaDork Giveaway: ‘Learning to Breathe’ by Priscilla Warner

In this life we have our ups, we have our downs. We have our TGIFs and our holy mother of what on earth just happeneds. One things for sure. Some days are better than others. And it takes bravery, ch...

11 may 12

Nina Dobrev Uses Conan As a Yoga Prop

When Conans not showing us his own yoga apparently he becomes a human yoga prop. From Wednesday nights (May 9th) Conan where Vampire Diaries star and yoga practitioner Nina Dobrev was coerced into de...

10 may 12

Rockstar Yogis Are Assholes…

Lately weve been surrounded by a growing bevy of yoga "rockstars" and asana poppers and flexi folk taking it to the next level! What does that even mean?

10 may 12

Power Yoga Teacher Impresses Us in Her Pretty Practice (video)

If youre into tricks and treats feast your ogley eyes on Meghan Currie, a Power Yoga teacher from Canada who dazzles us with her yoga skillz, in her skivvies. Its part acro, part yoga, part hooping, ...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

‘Learning to Breathe’ Book Review + Interview with Priscilla Warner on Finding Relief from Anxiety

In Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life , Priscilla Warner bravely opens up about her debilitating panic attacks and anxiety disorder. Her tale is one of raw episodes and g...

08 may 12 2 people like this

Yoga, Business and Government: When Corporate Clashes with Grassroots

With all the deserved criticism being leveled upon the yoga industry of late, it’s important to distinguish between the influence of corporate business and what is happening at the grassroots. There ...

08 may 12

Actress Sienna Miller Tries Prenatal Yoga and Yogi Mum’s Advice

0-year-old British actress Sienna Miller, whom weve seen in movies (Alfie, Factory Girl) but perhaps know best from tabloid coverage of her romance and public fallout with fellow actor and yogi Jude ...

07 may 12

Strange Death at Diamond Mountain Buddhist Center Raises Questions On Spiritual Cults

In the category of tragic and troublesome comes a story of creepy cult stuff and death, this time out of the supposed sanctum of a Buddhist retreat center. The April 22nd death of Ian Thornson, a 38-...

05 may 12

Watch This Man’s Crazy Inspiring Transformation After DDP Yoga (video)

Remember Diamond Dallas Page? Hes the one with his own pro-wrestler hand sign and DDP-branded "It Aint Your Mamas" Yoga. Oh sure, we can poke fun at the utter dudeness and fist-pumping approa...

05 may 12

YogaTuning: Because You Can’t, You Won’t and You Don’t Stop

YogaTuning: Wherein the genius of passionate songwriting meets the sanctum of our yoga mats. So what cha what cha what cha want? Let it go. Because you cant, you wont and you dont stop. Dedicated to ...

04 may 12

YogaDork Ed: How Do You Accessorize Your Yoga Poses?

Peep into any of the thousands of yoga classes across the globe and you will find that students are donning more than just yoga outfits. In addition to the latest leggings and tank tops by (insert yo...

03 may 12

Posture Matters: Stand Up For Yourself!

Sure were conscious of all that elongating the spine jazz on the mat, but how often do we dip into slumpasana the rest of the day? Not only does good posture help prevent back and neck pain and open ...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

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