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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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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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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It’s not surprising that a shallow, exploitative yoga series would emerge that relies on hot babes instead of good yoga as its theme. That this came out of Canada is what surprises me. Namaste Yoga is the regular yoga series seen on cable’s FitTV. They show a few episodes a day, and from what I [...]
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