Oh January, you saucy minx. Pretending you’re all timid and quiet, posing as the calm, sometimes melancholy hangover after the holiday rush. But we know you better now, don’t we? When we declared 2012 to be the year of the Doer, we weren’t expecting Action Jackson right out of the gates! But hey, if yoga [...]
Just for good measure, CNN takes on yogagate with their own redundant response to the hubbub over The New York Times “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” (which we all know is part of a book, yes?) complete with frustrated yoga teacher, dramatic voice-overs and menacing words in quotes (see below, and above). But they do [...]
So there’s this book. You may have heard about it, or perhaps had a few opinions after that newspaper published a big article about it. The book is set to be released, as often books do, and there will be many more opinions to follow, also known as reviews. Here are some of the first [...]
January 2012 is Yoga Freedom Month. Did you know? The yoga community has come together in unity in the past to support varying causes from cancer cures to rebuilding Haiti. Yoga Freedom Project, a new organization co-created by Off the Mat NYC leader Heather Snyder, is on a mission to unite the yoga community to [...]
"…it's not magic. It's neurobiology." Stressed in yoga class? You’re doing it right. Sort of. This article from Alex Korb, Ph.D. at Psychology Today stresses the importance of finding the calm in stressful situations, like twisted triangle and dealing with squares. (see what we did there?) From what we know about stress it does have its [...]
You know, as sagaciously analytical as we aim to be sometimes, we can totally take a joke around these parts. So when we saw this parody of Equinox’s Sexy Yoga Ad by humorist Michael Stusser (a contributor to Yoga International and Shambhala Sun) we couldn’t help but chuckle with amusement. Because it’s funny! And if you thought [...]
Is it hot in here? The first month of 2012 is barely over and we’ve already seen enough yoga contros and fiery debates to sweat old man Bikram. Still, we yoga on because that’s what we do, and we do it with Robert Downey Jr. Welll…ok not yet. But we’re pretty sure he needs to [...]
by Alexandra Moga Last Wednesday in New York City, local yogi-poets gathered at The Jivamukti School for the first official book launch event of The Poetry of Yoga. Co-hosted by two soulful pioneers, Sharon Gannon, co-founder of Jivamukti yoga, and HawaH, poet, artist, yogi and seminal editor of The Poetry of Yoga, the evening was a [...]
New use for chaturanga? A possible gang-related fatal shooting at a hotel in Vancouver on Tuesday evening could have spelled tragic for the U.S. Womens soccer team. World Cup Superstar and yogi Hope Solo tweeted from the hotel where the team was staying for the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament, thankful the crew was getting their yoga [...]