While we’re all still reeling from the events and revelations that have occurred over the past two weeks regarding controversy surrounding Anusara and its founder John Friend, we are attempting to provide for you here a stitch of clarity and organization with a running timeline of events, which we will continue to update as more [...]

Amidst the allegations, the apologies, the assumptions and awkwardness of business as usual, Anusara teachers are finding their voice and many are speaking out to express their disappointment, sadness and, for some of these teachers, their resignation. Noah Maze, Bernadette Birney, and others follow the early departures of Christina Sell, Elena Brower, Darren Rhodes, Amy Ippoliti [...]

Is this contagious?  Amy Ippoliti is the latest teacher to hand in her Anusara sash and branch from the pack, just as, we remind you, grand leader John Friend did with his Iyengar certificate years ago before creating his own empire. Elena Brower made huge news when she gracefully stepped down from her throne as [...]

(photo:Danny Kim) New York Magazine has had its share of yoga coverage, being the hip NY culture mag it is, but the latest profile on yoga teacher David Regelin, amidst the NYT yoga-wreckgate, is like pouring citrus cayenne detox cleanse on already open and sore wounds. The article “You Call That a Tree Pose?!” focuses [...]

by Michelle Dumovich As Pilates teachers, one of the most valuable teaching tool is to reflect on why and how we became so passionate about Pilates. We all have saved our Pilates books, taken countless tests, earned our certifications and some of us have even opened up our own studio. But, when was the last [...]

“I’m a yoga instructor, I work at a vegan bakery — and I also like to shoot guns.” Deirdre Gailey, lady gun owner, yogi, vegan, one of the many women purportedly finding the Zen in owning firearms and popping caps. A recent story from CBS tells us that ladies, yes even those wearing skirts and [...]

“It gives you a good outlook. It involves your mind,” says Bernice Bates, 91 year old yogi, and recent recipient of World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher title, who starts her practice before she even gets out of bed in the morning. ”Your mind, your body and your spirit. They all work together and they’re all coordinated. Whereas when [...]

Can yoga teachers make a living? Ha, what a silly question. Oh, you’re not charging $ 400 a session? $ 2000 for a 5-pack? That’s how much private yoga with Tara Stiles is going for according to the amusingly named shopping site ahalife.com. (you also get 2 Tara Stiles/Deepak Chopra DVDs with your purchase.) These [...]

We ‘met’ Bernice Bates when she was awarded the World Record for Oldest Yoga Teacher. We’ve heard some contention *cough*B.K.S. Iyengar*Porchon Tao-Lynch*cough* but after learning about Lady B and reading what has to say, this woman deserves an award! A widow of eight years, a mother of three, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of three, [...]