Let me first state outright that I am one of those “embittered” Hillary Clinton supporters who will not be voting for Barack Obama in the fall. It’s not just about Hillary or the fixed Democratic primary, by the way…as an intuitive, I get real bad energy from Obama. I liked him at first, before I [...]
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Yoga books and DVDs, as you may know, can add up. I found this great website called Bookins where you can trade books and DVDs and just pay the cost of shipping when you receive a product. I’ve used this to get a number of used yoga books, including books on Bikram, Sivananda, and Iyengar. [...]
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As I seem to be guided to do about once per year, I have updated this blog with a new design. I decided, with my criticism of Yoga Journal for its focus on skinny white women, I did not want to have a site design that had yet another skinny white woman on it. (Even [...]
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I was reading someone’s yoga blog and stumbled across a now defunct yoga blog called “YogaGlamGirl.” Presumably, because of the “Glam” in her blog name, “YogaGlamGirl” got a job blogging at a site I’ve never heard of, called “Glam.com.” She claims this is the largest website for women. (Umm, I thought iVillage was, or maybe [...]
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I was a late-night gong event at Golden Bridge Yoga once and a mom had her 3-year-old there with her. The event was three hours, from 7-10 pm, and involved some intense Kundalini Yoga and chanting followed by a long gong relaxation. The kid was actually quieter than the noisy woman behind her, so the [...]
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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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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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I have a friend who has recently become a fan of Anusara and she’s gotten crazy over arm balancing poses. Unfortunately, this has also made her into somewhat of an arm balance evangelist. When I told her I fell down in crow pose (bakasana), she started lecturing me on how it was all about a [...]
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Sometimes it’s hard to get to yoga class, and even putting in a DVD can be a bit time consuming. Start learning some simple yoga flows so you can do a full yoga routine by yourself without anyone directing you.
You can find many books with diagrams or learn some yoga routines in class or via [...]
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I was getting some pictures taken in Rancho Palos Verdes yesterday. In the quest for a cool “yoga pose” my friend came up with the idea to have me balancing on a large, somewhat pointy, and not very level rock that was in the midst of a rocky shoreline. We’re talking things like Warrior III. [...]
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