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Never-Boring Yogawear Guide

JoeR — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:15:48 -0700

By Kate Hanley Tired of pulling on the same old stretched-out T-shirt and baggy yoga pants? Invest in yourself and your practice with a few choice yoga accessories. From your top to your shoes to your accessories, these five essential yoga fashion statements are guaranteed to snazz up routine and enhance your body and your style, from the mat to the street. Baroque Obi Top This sexy top is as hardworking as it is pretty. The crossover V holds you in place while it also...

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The Healing Power of Yoga

jride — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:59:50 -0700

Yoga just may be the answer to chronic low back pain, according to a recent study.

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Yungchen Lhamo's Long Journey

derek_beres — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:27:54 -0600

Tibetan vocalist Yungchen Lhamo was brought into this world surrounded by struggle and social tension. Born in a labor camp and working in a carpet-weaving factory at age five, her grandmother’s “illegal” music lessons would be her saving grace. During her early years, growing up in a society where singing ritual music could translate into beating or death, Lhamo’s voice would be soft. Fast forward thirty-three years and she has become the world’s most renowned interpreter of Tibetan folk...

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Where Tibet Meets Minnesota: Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts

derek_beres — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:16:25 -0600

For collaboration to be successful all parties involved need to dissolve their egos for respect of the greater whole. Only when everyone approaches a project with open minds and, most importantly, the ability to listen, can something unique and prosperous occur. On Selwa, a Tibetan nun and American guitarist grant one another the space to move freely through their respective disciplines. What results is a lesson in listening, not only between the artists, but everyone else fortunate enough to...

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Can Yoga Make you Thinner?

amandakshannon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:23:39 -0600

Studies suggest that yoga may be the answer to a slimmer figure, better stress management and a good sex life. Interested? Read on to learn more!

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Yoga: Once Exotic, Now Ecstatic

AbigailLewis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:47:41 -0600

Everybody knows what yoga is. It's so common that it's difficult to remember it has only saturated the American consciousness in the last 30 or 40 years. Prior to that time, yoga was an exotic practice limited to a very few. It may be that Maharishi was responsible for our awakening to this way of moving our bodies. Certainly the Beatles infatuation with meditation brought him to American attention in the 1960s. But Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral Yoga and greeter at Woodstock...

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Wisdom of the Young

derek_beres — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:18:19 -0600

David Mitchell’s narrator in Black Swan Green, his 2006 novel about the ides and challenges of pubescent-aged childhood, is the kid inside the kid you are and once were. Like Oscar Wao, he experiences growing pains for being a bit different from the rest of the pack. Only when we grow older do we realize we were all a bit different, and probably remain to be. Still, popular consensus in high school is part of the ritual of growing up, and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor faces these challenges...

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The Paradox of Ego

derek_beres — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:29:10 -0600

The subtitle of Barry Schwartz’s book, The Paradox of Choice, says it all: Why More is Less. A rigorously researched and thorough survey of the dangers of too much choice, Schwartz believes that having more possibility leads to less enthusiasm, oftentimes rendering us paralyzed. The decision making process, he says, is more often than not something people do not want to partake in. For example, he discusses healthcare, where we would rather have a doctor offer us a cure than leaving the...

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Black Thought on the Yoga Mat

derek_beres — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:36:55 -0600

When someone turned on Do You Want More? during a stuffy, boxed-in car trip of eight young men in a midsized sedan heading to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1993 for a Jack Kerouac festival, I was taken by Black Thought’s lyrics. There we were en route to a poetry festival, and with the Roots I had found another poet, one that would long outlast my Beats fascination. This week while bumping Game Theory in my iPod, a few of his lines from “Don’t Feel Right” jumped out: Look, my eyes open ‘cause...

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Side Crow and the I Don't Wanna Syndrome

derek_beres — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:05:34 -0600

This week’s sequence was a pretty rigorous, twisting and balancing series of postures, getting students ready and into side crow. Arm balances are my thing; not that they’re effortless, but at this point I can usually drop into them at will. We all celebrate what we do well. The challenge is celebrating what you cannot do well, being humbled by it, at times focusing on that instead of reverting to what you know and love. Like most people, I am victimized by my comforts. Yoga helps bring me out...

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