Category: Culture
Celebrating Love of Self | Dr. Jay Kumar | LivingYourLight.com
There is a beautiful metaphor from the Eastern spiritual traditions that relates just as one can never truly describe the sweet flavor of an orange without tasting it…the same is true with love. One cannot begin to describe in words the joy and sweetness of love without tasting its fruit. Your first step to savoring [...]
Longing | By Wah!
You’re missing something. You feel incomplete. You wish for something you don’t have. Is it heartache? Desire? Madness? In yogic philosophy, it’s called longing. If you long for something, it means you have already experienced something amazing. You can’t miss something you never had. How would you even know it was missing if you didn’t [...]
Join YogaVentures.org in Haiti | A Yoga Retreat With A Purpose | March 23 – 31, 2012
Do you ever look at all the fancy yoga retreats and wonder what the real purpose behind the retreat is? Is it the way of a yogi to travel to exotic places and bask in luxury while humanity as a whole suffers? What if you took a yoga retreat and turned it into an act [...]
To The Fat Girl I Saw at Hot Yoga in NYC | Joshilyn Jackson | Faster Than Kudzu
From the Editor, Sometimes a blog just jumps out at you and rips your heart wide open. This one did just that. A powerful read about acceptance, perseverance and openness. We hope that you enjoy this as much as we did. Grab some kleenex. Please note all text and images are property of JoshilynJackson.com Dear [...]
Leslie Kaminoff | Video Addressing NY Times Article | How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
We’ve all heard about it, over and over, How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, the NY Times article that got everyone worked up about the dangers of yoga. If you haven’t read it, click here. This video is really good, and presented by Leslie Kaminoff, co-author of Yoga Anatomy, and founder of breathingproject.org
Yoga and The Gift of Connection | Lisa M. Ash
The very tangible gift serving as a yoga instructor has given me is the gift of connection. Inherent in this gift is an invitation to be unwrapped with loving hands: gently, slowly. Inside the box is the beginning of a conversation that leads to the potential for deep connection with another person. Passing this gift [...]
Merry F#@%ing Christmas | A Raw Deal | RawRach.blogspot.com
I squeezed in a Bikram class just now, and as per usual lately, the 90-minute moving meditation turned into more of 90-minute planning session-slash-article-brainstorm. I guess a little auto-pilot’s to be expected when you’ve done the same 26 postures every day for 8 years. Oy. (No wonder freestyle vinyasa keeps me more in the moment. [...]
The 7-Day, Make that 4-day, Christmas Challenge | JenniferJarrettYoga.com
Including today and Christmas Day, we have 7 days left to officially be in the Christmas Spirit. I know that you know what this sacred season is really and truly all about, but I also sympathize with how easy it is to get caught up in the commercialized and consumer-ized version of this season, too. [...]
Commit To Kindness, Live In Courage; It is Contagious | By Wah!
Whatever is held in your heart and mind is also held in your body. Going through your emotions and belief systems with the intent to forgive and evolve may not be easy, but it will greatly improve your health and overall well-being. On a physical level, you can eat pure foods, clean out your closets, [...]
Shiva Rea | Burning Man | Tending the Sacred Fire
This is another great video from our friend and Flow contributor Rich Van Every featuring the amazing Shiva Rea out at Black Rock desert talking about Tending the Sacred Fire.
4 Steps To Leading Like a Bad-Ass | Amy Ippolitti
Hi Friends, I recently watched the movie “Bobby” and was sobered to be reminded of how the same issues we are dealing with today were alive and well in 1968. Think deteriorating ozone layer, climate change, violence and species extinction to name just a few. While we have made a ton of progress, in some [...]
Bhakti Fest 2011 | Shanie Matthews | My Happy Path
It was an impromptu decision. After thoroughly enjoying Wanderlust I had this feeling that I just wanted to experience another Yoga festival. Was the love and splendor that I enjoyed wholeheartedly something that was unique to Wanderlust, or was this community of love a reality? And then a friend called and asked me if I [...]
No wind = No sail. No Breath = No Yoga | Lauren Imparato
If you have ever stepped foot on a sailboat, you know that sailing without wind is literally impossible. You cannot move, and you do not move. And if there is a solid wind initially, allowing you move gracefully across the sea with an elegant tilt, and then out of no where it stops, your sailing stops, in [...]
BeeyondYoga.com | Yoga on the Edge | Bee Bosnak
Bee’s Story The moment I entered the world I had trouble breathing. The emergency room had become my playground. I remember days when I would watch the children from my window as they played with their friends and engaged in laughter. I would look over at my mother who would shake her head, which always [...]
The Yoga Sutras of YogaDawg | My Third Eye Itches | YogaDawg.com
Our friend YogaDawg, over at YogaDawg.com has created a masterpiece of humor and woven it into that beautiful thread of Yoga. Presenting the Yoga Sutras of YogaDawg! A four chapter compilation. This is the first chapter. Here’s a few of the Sutras , they are absolutely hilarious, follow the link below to read the rest [...]
MC Yogi News | Summer Festivals with MC Yogi
[google1] Happy Summer!!! Namaste everyone. Summertime is my favorite time, next to Spring, Winter & Fall. I Love Being in the sunshine and performing at all the amazing festivals that bring us all together. We have some Om-azing shows coming up with our new band The Sacred Sound Society. We recently added an incredible horn [...]
Recovering Yogi.com | Joslyn Hamilton, Vanessa Fiola and Leslie Munday
[google1] If you would like to take a little break from the industry known as yoga, then check out RecoveringYogi.com and enjoy some rather hilarious musings. Some people look at this website and get really angry, while others can enjoy, and relate to what these ladies are talking about. Founded by Joslyn Hamilton and Vanessa [...]
Help the Yoga Slackers save the PLC and get a sticker!
[google1] So our friends, The Yoga Slackers, are on a mission to spread the slackline yoga love throughout the country this summer and they have ran into a little problem down in El Paso, Texas, but do not fret, they are mobile again and will be at many of your favorite festivals such as Hanuman [...]
Curvy Yoga.com An Amazing Website and Woman
There are a few yoga websites out there that are really special, and CurvyYoga.com is one of those websites. When this magazine was conceived, it was out of a basic principal, to promote yoga to everyone. 99.5% of the people that practice yoga don’t look or move the way yoga is perceived in the mainstream [...]
Jennifer Jarrett | Talking To Myself: A Powerful Lesson in Meditation | Via Mind, Body, Green
[google1] A beautiful lesson from our dear friend Jennifer Jarrett at the amazing website, MindBodyGreen: During a meditation class a few years ago, the teacher instructed the group to follow the breath, watching the rise of the inhale and the fall of the exhale. Then she suggested that we notice the moments when we found [...]
Conversation With Rodney Yee via Magazine of Yoga
Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program Donna Karan and Rodney Yee are changing the health care delivery paradigm – bringing yoga to the center BY THE MAGAZINE OF YOGA EDITOR, SUSAN MAIER-MOUL Like millions of other practitioners, my first experience of yoga was a Gaiam VHS cassette called A.M Yoga by phenomenal teacher Rodney Yee, a [...]
12 Year Old Yogini’s Poem Inspires via Live.Breathe.Grow
My choice, in the palm of my hands – Written By: Eli Ralo Posted on March 21, 2011 by Nancy Buckle http://www.livebreathegrow.wordpress.com Yesterday a 12 year old girl from my yoga class presented me with a poem she wrote, thanking me for introducing her to something she loves. The poem is one of the most [...]
Ignore the story and see the soul/Seane Corn via Oprah.com
There is a lot of negative press going on about yoga right now. The Details article about Bikram, the New York Times article about Tara Stiles and now, YogaDork’s article about Yoga Alliance. This article was published last year on Oprah.com. It’s such a powerful article that we wanted to publish it again for our [...]
Yoga Alliance or Defiance? via the lovely Yogadork
If you’re a yoga teacher, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you and your fellow teachers have had this discussion. This debate has been going on for some time now, and the question remains, does this debate really need to be front page? Now it is. Please enjoy the article from our wonderful colleague Yogadork. Make [...]
Tara Stiles Rebel Yoga? via NY Times
Tara Stiles is quickly becoming the new face of yoga, is that a bad thing? Read the NY Times Article, Rebel Yoga, here.
High 5′s Foundation now this is yoga!
Yoga and healing come in many shapes and forms. In the world of extreme sports, accidents happen frequently. Many times the injuries sustained by these athletes are life altering and require months, if not years, of physical therapy and rehabilitation. The High Fives foundation is a non-profit dedicated to helping athletes on their journey back [...]
Poetry of Yoga wants you in their book!
The Poetry of Yoga: Connecting Yoga, Writing and Life In a decade of bringing peace education to inner-city children in Washington, DC, nonprofit leader HawaH has seen yoga transform lives. “Just learning how to sit still and listen to silence reduces stress and violent behavior,” HawaH testifies. “Teaching children deep breathing also increases their awareness [...]
Free MC Yogi Tunes
It’s an Elephant Powered week! Celebrate Pancha Ganapati, the five-day festival (Dec. 21-25) in honor of Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, with a free download of: “Ganesh is Fresh (KutMasta Kurt’s Re-Freshed Remix)” feat. Jai Uttal, from MC Yogi’s Elephant Powered Remixes and Omstrumentals 2–CD set, now thru Dec. 27. How do you get these [...]
