Why Do Some Christians Fear Yoga?

I really don’t get this freaky deaky fear that some Christians have over yoga. Is it really so horrible to expose yourself to other religious thought?
Or are certain fundamentalist Christian leaders worried that if people got a taste of something else, they might like it better? People doing yoga may not fill their donation [...]

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Yoga Teacher Training at Karuna Yoga

I am very excited; I have signed up for the seven-week 200-hour yoga teacher training at Karuna Yoga in Los Feliz (in Los Angeles). I found out about it from a client of mine who raved about it. So I went over to Karuna Yoga, tried a class with founder and teacher Kelly Wood, and [...]

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Yoga Journal’s Descent Into Slick Yoga Cheesecake

In going through my old, old yoga videos (from the early 90s), I found one that had an ad for Yoga Journal at the beginning of the tape. What a difference 10+ years makes! Gracing the covers of the old Yoga Journal were a variety of people, young and old. The Dalai Lama was featured [...]

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Yoga Snobs

I poke around some yoga forums once in a while, and I can’t help but notice a few yoga snobs online. You know, the kind of yog teachers that YogaDawg loves to make fun of. These are people who MUST write out “adho mukha shvanasana” instead of “downward facing dog” in a casual discussion of [...]

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