I’ve been watching the Biggest Loser (yes, yes, it’s a reality show, but it is very interesting to watch people’s struggles with weight loss). They have been teaching the contestants yoga as part of their training. So in this week’s episode, the contestants had a challenge where they had to run up and down a [...]
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OK, it’s really not fair of me to target “gym yoga teachers” because I am one of those gym yoga teachers (currently subbing at a chain I will not mention so they won’t get on my case about publicizing their company on my blog). Gym yoga isn’t always bad – it depends on the teacher, [...]
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I hear from a lot of my yoga teachers that the best time to do yoga is first thing in the morning, right after you get up, to start your day off on the right track. I must confess, I have yet to successfully get into the habit of first-thing-in-the-morning yoga. My first go-to in [...]
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Super Brain Yoga (sometimes spelled Superbrain Yoga) is a technique brought to us by pranic healing. It is an exercise that is supposed to balance the left and right hemispheres on the brain. It is supposed to help you become smarter. Some report that it has helped children with autism. Here is a news report [...]
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I was really excited last year to be a part of the Global Mala Project, instigated by Shiva Rea. The Global Mala Project had the intention to raise awareness and raise money for many worthy causes. I had volunteered last year and was looking forward to volunteering again this year. Sadly, however, the community and [...]
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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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