While I was visiting New York City last week, I had the opportunity to visit the new Moksha Yoga studio in the West Village and check out the thriving community that has blossomed there since they op...
Last night I participated in my first casserole – the nightly “pots and pans protests” which are filling the streets of Montreal. My friend and I, armed with pots and wooden spoons, left her ap...
Lea Longo is an essential figure in the Montreal yoga community. She’s a kirtan nomad, taking her blissed out, heartfelt music to studios and events around the city. As Lea explains in our vide...
Not all revolutions start in the streets. A revolution of the heart and mind may have more subtle origins. And sometimes you can start this revolution quietly, in your own community. Offering yoga to...
In her opening remarks for the first annual Yoga Service Conference, Beryl Bender Birch asked the 145 conference attendees gathered at the Omega Institute: “What drives us to come together? What moti...
We’ve all witnessed it. Maybe we’re even guilty of it. Public Displays of Yoga (PDY): it’s a thing. And, depending on what circles you swim in, possibly a problem. TeamBuy.ca pokes ...
Somewhere along the line, yogis realized that practicing asana on an artificially-coloured PVC rectangle wasn’t really good for the planet or our bodies. In the past few years, the yoga mat mar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_n8Xo93HKKM It’s Mother’s Day! And what better way to honour the mamas in our lives than by celebrating the creative divine feminine force. Listen to Where ...
I recently received an email with the subject, “How to Live Your Yoga.” It was an e-newsletter for a weekend yoga conference at a retreat centre. While I applaud the effort to present the promise of ...
Today marks the sixth anniversary of my arrival in my adopted home, Montreal, and what an auspicious day to learn that IAYB has been voted one of the top local blogs! Montreal Mirror, an arts and ent...
So ma ville, Montreal, loves festivals. This town is just one non-stop festival from mid-June to mid-October. Film, dance, music, jazz, burlesque, dragon boating, food – there is a festival for just ...
Even though there’s a lukewarm anti-yoga revolution brewing, let us remember the power of yoga to transform lives. This video is hot on Reddit and has received almost 100,000 views since it was...
Yoga has gotten some bad press this year, with near-hysterical hype about injuries, salacious viral video advertising, banned yoga pants, and the John Friend/Anusara scandal. But did you know there&#...
It’s appropriate that on May Day, as hundreds of thousands of people across the world filled the streets, demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life,...
It’s May Day, and the people are calling for a General Strike, a day without the 99%. After a winter of dormancy, the Occupy movement has been slowly awakening over the past weeks, and today th...
Last week, a Facebook ad for Sadie Nardini’s “summer yoga body” online course caught my attention and warranted a blog post questioning the integrity of using weight loss as a yoga ...
Even the most bendy asana practitioner can feel a little stiff and uncomfortable when attempting a sitting meditation practice. Author and yoga teacher Charlotte Bell is aware of the physical challen...
Around North America, there are enthusiastic selfless yoga teachers who want to take their teaching out of the studio and into their communities. There are also service organizations (and prisons, wo...
There is just one week left in goodyoga‘s Indiegogo campaign to purchase the unique and artsy loft building they currently rent in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighbourhood – and they’re ...
Yoga Outreach has been doing the yoga service thing since before it was cool. This year, their 14th annual (!) fundraiser weekend retreat will be held on May 25 – 27 at a “peaceful wooded...
If you’re looking to spice up your weekends with a little wisdom, this live webcast series with awakened teachers may do the trick. Every Sunday at 2:00pm EST, the organizers of The Gathering a...
It’s not the first time that Sadie Nardini has used weight loss in the marketing of her yoga online trainings, workshops and products. I just Googled “yoga for weight loss,” and the...
The media onslaught continues! Today, the Texas Monthly gives us their unique take on Texan homeboy John Friend and the Anusara situation. And the writer just happens to be TM Executive Editor Mimi S...
I’m excited to welcome new IAYB sponsor, Journey of the Yogini! Learn more about this passionate yogi activist and her amazing work. When Ottawa-based yoga teacher, Megan Campbell, began her mi...
Things have been quiet on the Anusara front the past few weeks. So quiet that I was just about to delete my #Anusara Twitter stream. But there must be some kind of astrological action, because today ...
Yoga competitions are a hot button topic in the yoga community. Last month, I spoke out against them in an Associated Press interview, declaring that, “The roots of yoga are based in acceptance and n...
Regular readers and IAYB Facebook fans will know that I was obsessed with last week’s NYC Apple store appearance by Tara Stiles and William J. Broad. What a dynamic, yet dissonant, duo! It appe...
I’m working on my essay for 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice, an anthology about yoga and contemporary culture that I’m co-editing with Carol Horton. And I’m think...
Well, not a whole studio! The good folks at goodyoga, an “urban ashram for artists, travelers and yogis” in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighbourhood, are on a mission to raise cash for t...
Both self-help books and yoga have a tendency to take themselves a little seriously. Erica J. Schmidt, a yogi and writer who lives on a boat in Halifax, pokes a little fun at both with her quirky sel...
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