As yoga festival season rapidly approaches, we are pleased to support our friends at the Hanuman Festival. This event is special. It is centered around Hanuman, the deity that represents devotion. And this festival is all about devotion. The 3rd Annual Hanuman Festival will take place June 13-16, 2013 in beautiful downtown Boulder, CO. Featuring [...]
Top Chair Yoga Poses for Strength (via Milford Beacon) Heres some good news: Building strength doesnt require a trip to the gymor even a trip down to the floor. Instead, get strong and flexible with these five easy-to-learn yoga poses that can be done with just a chair. But dont be fooled by their simplicity: [...]
My Yoga Online unites body, mind and web this May by unlocking 1,000 free online classes to the global yoga community (via PR Newswire) Top online studio unlocks its website initiating a world-wide, collective “OM” VANCOUVER, April 15, 2013 /CNW/ – My Yoga Online, the world’s largest online yoga video company, is unlocking its entire [...]
Bring a Yogic Attitude to your Work and Find Satisfaction in your Job (via Sydney Corporate Yoga) In her 30s, my neighbor Gretchen staked her life on the mantra, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” She left a corporate job to try making her living as a writer, something that felt more [...]
Ashtanga Yoga: Handstand From Chair Pose or Utkatasana (via NewsLook) Video News by NewsLook Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to work on lifting up into a floating arm balance from Utkatasana and discusses the correct flow of this posture in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.
Feeding children a vegan diet is growing in popularity (via The Daily News) BALTIMORE — Eleven-year-old Tyler Parker-Rollins says being vegan isn’t always easy. But he says it’s also “fun” and that he plans to be one “forever.” His 9-year-old brother, Will, loved it when his friends tried vegan pizza at his birthday party and “they [...]
The Alo Core Pant is a high-performance women’s pant designed to provide superior fit, comfort and flexibility during your workout. Transitions easily from the yoga studio to the street and features contrast detailing at waistband and inside gusset for ease of movement. Designed for yoga, pilates and working out. Fabrication: Ultimate Performance Nylon Spandex. 87% [...]
Our friend’s at Wanderlust have assembled another summer line-up of the best yoga festival gatherings in the world. There will be four primary festivals this year throughout the US and Canada. What makes Wanderlust so special? You have to come see and experience it for yourself. Wanderlust Festivals bring together the yoga community with incredible [...]
Top Chair Yoga Poses for Strength (via Milford Beacon) Heres some good news: Building strength doesnt require a trip to the gymor even a trip down to the floor. Instead, get strong and flexible with these five easy-to-learn yoga poses that can be done with just a chair. But dont be fooled by their simplicity: [...]
Ashtanga Yoga: Handstand From Chair Pose or Utkatasana (via NewsLook) Video News by NewsLook Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to work on lifting up into a floating arm balance from Utkatasana and discusses the correct flow of this posture in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.
Its hard not to notice the daily influence of the broader society on yoga in this country. We see it in the slick ads, the beautiful yoga clothes, and the way we carry ourselves in the studio and amongst fellow teachers and practitioners. Of course part of the way we carry ourselves in the studio [...]
Once a shepherd found a lion cub in the jungle. He brought it home. The cub grew up among the sheep. He started eating grass and bleating like a sheep. One day the sheep were grazing on the meadows near the jungle. It so happened that a lion saw the flock and noticed the cub [...]
Leslie Kaminoff, author of the #1 best-selling yoga book “Yoga Anatomy,” has been bringing the study of anatomy to life for over 25 years. Kaminoff’s acclaimed Yoga Anatomy Course, previously available only at his studio, The Breathing Project in NYC, has helped teachers and practitioners from yoga, dance, pilates, and somatic therapy backgrounds improve their [...]
As yoga festival season rapidly approaches, we are pleased to support our friends at the Hanuman Festival. This event is special. It is centered around Hanuman, the deity that represents devotion. And this festival is all about devotion. The 3rd Annual Hanuman Festival will take place June 13-16, 2013 in beautiful downtown Boulder, CO. Featuring [...]
Our friend’s at Wanderlust have assembled another summer line-up of the best yoga festival gatherings in the world. There will be four primary festivals this year throughout the US and Canada. What makes Wanderlust so special? You have to come see and experience it for yourself. Wanderlust Festivals bring together the yoga community with incredible [...]
Lightning in a Bottle is a celebration of Art, Sustainability, Music, Performance, and Life Itself. LIB strives to be a greater expression each year. We take pride in curating local up and coming music talent and international world renowned artists. We paved the way for live painting at our events with Lightning in a Paintcan, [...]
Local Yoga Businesses Join Together for First California Spirit Festival 3 Days of Yoga, Music, Meditation, Dance, Discussion & more April 26–28, 2013 Sacramento’s first-of-it’s-kind yoga festival brings together more than twenty northern California yoga studios to offer a weekend of yoga, music, dance, food, and community. Founded by Yoga Shala Sacramento’s Tyler Langdale and [...]
Shakti Fest kicks off the summer yoga festival tour, and it’s hands down, one of the most amazing gatherings of yoga and kirtan. Joshua Tree’s weather is absolutely perfect this time of year and the collective gathering of people this particular festival draws is a powerful. Celebrating its third season, Shakti Fest the spring celebration [...]
Tis the season for festival going. We’re so blessed to be living in advanced times of enlightenment and awakening, where gatherings like Lightning in a Bottle are blossoming all over the globe. Lightning first struck initially in 2000, where a small group of like minded people with a love of good music and the outdoors [...]
We had the pleasure of sitting down with MC Yogi to discuss his personal journey and the making of Pilgrimage. The original interview was almost an hour long, so we did a lot of editing and we are pleased to announce we will have some more videos coming out with MC Yogi on all kinds [...]
Musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was last year diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung and that time were not on his side. Like many Americans, Chebiji – as he is affectionately known does not have health insurance. Due to his weak [...]
MC Yogi’s long awaited new Album Pilgrimage is simply “Om” azing! Within a paradigm of adornment for pop-culture the difficulty is deciphering what to be inspired by. In a generation often suffocated with stimulation, MC Yogi’s newly produced album Pilgrimage represents a state of grounded clarity. Defined by a new era, this album explores our [...]
The much anticipated release of DJ Drez’s Jahta Beat: The Lotus Memoirs premiered on the White Swan Records label on April 17, 2012. This latest release is an amazing blend that only DJ Drez can deliver. You can purchase this new release at the iTunes link below or at whiteswanrecords.com. Be sure to leave a [...]
In the work of letting go, it is important to take responsibility for what we create. Responsibility meaning the ability to respond, not take the blame. Be kind to yourself through the journey because most of us already took the blame long ago, and spurred a story that sabotaged you along the way. When the [...]
What is art but reflections on our lives and how we perceive the world? “Yoga Tree” is an ongoing body of work that serves to express reconnection to the universe through the aliment found in yoga practice. In pose, we realign the body, mind and spirit with all that is divine. We ground ourselves to [...]
Last December I visited a state prison in Northern California (Deuel Vocational Institute) and not only had the opportunity to teach yoga to inmates, but also to talk with them afterwards about their yoga practices. It was an incredibly profound and humbling experience, they were articulate, eloquent and astute. In terms of their depth of [...]
“It is not true that money can’t buy happiness. It can, that’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s someone else’s happiness.” Nick Hornby Spoiler alert: the last line, the summation of my new experiential documentary “Mindfulness for Urban Depression” is an ebullient “Happiness is a choice!” For those who have seen the [...]
I was doing some research for one of my clients the other day when I came across the term Yoga Nidra. I’ve been doing yoga for a long time and used to teach as well. I’m also a copywriter with a specific focus on wellness clients and the co-founder of Recovering Yogi, so I’ve written [...]
My Yoga Online unites body, mind and web this May by unlocking 1,000 free online classes to the global yoga community (via PR Newswire) Top online studio unlocks its website initiating a world-wide, collective “OM” VANCOUVER, April 15, 2013 /CNW/ – My Yoga Online, the world’s largest online yoga video company, is unlocking its entire [...]
Bring a Yogic Attitude to your Work and Find Satisfaction in your Job (via Sydney Corporate Yoga) In her 30s, my neighbor Gretchen staked her life on the mantra, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” She left a corporate job to try making her living as a writer, something that felt more [...]
Feeding children a vegan diet is growing in popularity (via The Daily News) BALTIMORE — Eleven-year-old Tyler Parker-Rollins says being vegan isn’t always easy. But he says it’s also “fun” and that he plans to be one “forever.” His 9-year-old brother, Will, loved it when his friends tried vegan pizza at his birthday party and “they [...]
Before it even happened, I cried. Looking back, I see that some part of me knew what was about to happen and yet at the time, I just rode the current. I cried; years of repressed something left me that night and I came into an even deeper presence and awareness than ever before. I [...]
When the girl next to me rolled out her mat and immediately began warming up with hanumanasana (the splits) I admit, I rolled my eyes and thought “Great, it’s going to be that kind of yoga class.” You know the kind, where the studio has mirrors on the wall and all the skinniest and best [...]
The Alo Core Pant is a high-performance women’s pant designed to provide superior fit, comfort and flexibility during your workout. Transitions easily from the yoga studio to the street and features contrast detailing at waistband and inside gusset for ease of movement. Designed for yoga, pilates and working out. Fabrication: Ultimate Performance Nylon Spandex. 87% [...]
We wish that every city could have there very own Cafe Gratitude. It is one of the most amazing organic, farm to plate, restaurants EVER! But for those of you who have yet to experience this wonderful place, there is a wonderful book with many of Cafe Gratitude’s incredible recipes. Check out Cafe Gratitude Menu [...]
For Jennifer Kries, the concept of Yoga Undressed, evolved from somewhat of an autobiographical journey. It resulted as an inquiry into the process, which lead toward self-development and self-expansion. Years ago she took a naked yoga class in San Francisco. “Basically I treated my body as an instrument, as a vehicle for power, and accomplishment. [...]
Gemstones and crystals have been used to balance the body for thousands of years. Crystal energy was used by tribes who had virtually no way of contacting each other such as the Mayans and Egyptians, confirming their powers were active and effective. Nowadays, crystals are perfect for balancing energy blockages that come from the stresses [...]
To celebrate the release of Mindfulness for Urban Depression by Ira Israel, we’re giving away 7 copies (that’s right, a copy a day) to our readers. You can sign-up to win a free copy HERE on our Facebook page. You can also click HERE to purchase the DVD on Amazon.com I sat down to review [...]
This is an incredible video created from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace about the power of choosing and our conscious decisions.
As yoga festival season rapidly approaches, we are pleased to support our friends at the Hanuman Festival. This event is special. It is centered around Hanuman, the deity that represents devotion. And this festival is all about devotion. The 3rd Annual Hanuman Festival will take place June 13-16, 2013 in beautiful downtown Boulder, CO. Featuring [...]
Top Chair Yoga Poses for Strength (via Milford Beacon) Heres some good news: Building strength doesnt require a trip to the gymor even a trip down to the floor. Instead, get strong and flexible with these five easy-to-learn yoga poses that can be done with just a chair. But dont be fooled by their simplicity: [...]
My Yoga Online unites body, mind and web this May by unlocking 1,000 free online classes to the global yoga community (via PR Newswire) Top online studio unlocks its website initiating a world-wide, collective “OM” VANCOUVER, April 15, 2013 /CNW/ – My Yoga Online, the world’s largest online yoga video company, is unlocking its entire [...]
Bring a Yogic Attitude to your Work and Find Satisfaction in your Job (via Sydney Corporate Yoga) In her 30s, my neighbor Gretchen staked her life on the mantra, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” She left a corporate job to try making her living as a writer, something that felt more [...]
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