I’m always looking for tips on helping my hamstrings. Recently, I found the following interesting comment on Metafilter by a person who found improving day-to-day posture helped with flexibility. I hope it helps someone. Better posture can’t hurt regardless! I had the same problem. I was never able to touch my toes, no matter how much [...]
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I was in a yoga teacher training workshop over the weekend, and our teacher mentioned off-hand that a number of senior teachers in a certain yoga tradition that he chose not to name were getting hip replacement surgery! I was, of course, extremely curious to know what tradition he was talking about, but did not [...]
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A year later, I see a link coming in to this blog from the Accidental Yogist, which is a great Los Angeles-based yoga blog. Apparently, some yoga blog awards were given out, and my blog was on the list – but I must have missed the email. However, in searching for the “Online Nursing Programs [...]
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As a follow up to my last post on Yoga Journal’s model search, I wanted to share an email I wrote to the woman who first alerted me to the contest with her “vote for me!” email. I had actually sent her the link to the blog post she inspired. She wrote back to say [...]
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Someone I don’t know just emailed me with the subject “Vote for me!” – upon opening this email, I was asked to vote for this person to become the next Yoga Journal “model.” UGH. This “talent” search is *everything* that is wrong about yoga today. So what do you see when you go to the [...]
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Just a quick note on how appreciative I am that yoga helps me keep my feet healthy. I’ve seen the results of wearing high heels for a lifetime – my mom has a very painful hammertoe because of the shoes she used to wear when younger. In part because of yoga, I find myself very [...]
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I was checking out a free yoga class at Yoga Yoga in Austin on Saturday on their big free yoga day event. The class, being free, was of course packed, and when the teacher asked how many people were her regulars, only one or two hands shot up. So the class was filled with people [...]
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In an article on the Huffington Post, a Hindu scholar tries to shoo Christians away from yoga: While yoga is not a “religion” in the sense that the Abrahamic religions are, it is a well-established spiritual path. Its physical postures are only the tip of an iceberg, beneath which is a distinct metaphysics with profound [...]
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A lot of things that aren’t really yoga get called yoga these days, but by far the creepiest is the following: Some women in Russia have put up Internet videos showing them swinging their babies around like they are ragdolls…and calling this “baby yoga.” This “baby-swinging yoga” has now been covered on the Gawker website, [...]
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There’s a great post on SpiritVoyage about the proliferation of “yoga porn.” She writes: I was searching through youtube with the keyword “yoga” yesterday and I was a little dismayed by the fact that so many of the results on the first few pages returned scantily clad yoginis with a camera focused on their rear [...]
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