Took a class at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center last night. I guess Sivananda Yoga is not considered trendy or flashy these days, being “classical yoga” and all that, but still, I wonder why more people don’t take the classes there. With a $35/year membership, drop-in classes are only $10. This is insanely cheap for [...]
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Sometimes we can get spoiled in Los Angeles, seeing as it’s the American hub of yoga. We’ve got the best yoga teachers and the best yoga studios in the country. I’ve already studied with Shiva Rea; last night I ventured bravely out to Hollywood for a Full Moon Yoga class with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge. [...]
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A follow up to my post, Yoga Inversions for Chronic Fatigue and Anemia?: I did not realize there was a name for the lightheadedness that you get sometimes with chronic fatigue syndrome. It is called “orthostatic intolerance” or “orthostatic hypotension.” Basically, what that means is that you have low blood volume and you’re not getting [...]
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On the recommendation of a friend, I went to a gong meditation at Golden Bridge Yoga on Friday night. I had never been to Golden Bridge before, and I’m admittedly cautious about Kundalini Yoga due to some of the controversies surrounding it.
The gong workshop was fantastic…I had always wondered what the point was of doing [...]
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