Face Yoga book published; class offered at gym; media media media–eternal beauty and youth!
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0716F938540C7A8EDDAA0894DF404482
OR, to actually read the article
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:u5p9Ox8qIi0J:www.midtownyoga.com/journal/got-crows-feet-call-the-downward-dog+SKIN+DEEP%3B+Got+Crow%27s-Feet%3F+Call+the+Downward+Dog&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
in Uncategorized.God, we are all so opinionated.
http://www.gawker.com/news/rodney-yee/face-yoga-a-scam-says-moralist-rodney-yee-248088.php
in Uncategorized.A humor piece from the New York Times Magazine.
“Later that day, I took a restorative yoga class. Shooting guns and taking yoga on the same day was the biggest “You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” moment I’ve had so far in my life. Guns and yoga are French fries dipped in a milkshake. Scotch and ginger ale. Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Model” after a bad breakup. Reruns of “Law and Order” and having no life: they’re good together.”
I don’t know–I didn’t laugh. Maybe it’s too close to the truth about the crazy hybrid practices that are out there? Or maybe I’m just tired.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25funnyhumor.t.html?ex=1179806400&en=129e965ccaf38ed7&ei=5070
in Uncategorized.In Saskatchewan, and elsewhere:
“U.S. prisons are also offering meditation and yoga for their general populations.
The Prison Dharma Network in Boulder, Colo., leads yoga and meditation and also sends books and correspondence to inmates U.S.-wide and around the world.”
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=5480a7f0-8c7b-4e45-b19e-be73333c14ef
in Uncategorized.Christian yoga move aside. This from Australia.
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=2844
in Uncategorized.According to CNNMoney.com. Number one in their survey of satisfying job switches is from lawyer to yoga teacher/studio owner.
Witness Susan Rubin at Seasonal Yoga, Armonk, NY.
http://www.seasonalyoga.com/
As covered at http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0703/gallery.bestjobs_profiles.moneymag/
in Uncategorized.Fascinating! Who knew?
“The International Association of Black Yoga Teachers, Ghana (IABYT-Ghana) is organizing a day’s Yoga Clinic for the general public as part of preparations for its upcoming first Africa International Summit in Accra slated for August this year.”
http://www.myjoyonline.com/archives/health/200703/2754.asp
in Uncategorized.Ron Rosenbaum, Slate.com columnist, doesn’t like the current mainstreaming of yoga.
“No, it’s the commodification and rhetorical dumbing-down of yoga culture that gets to me. The way something that once was—and still can be—pure and purifying has been larded with mystical schlock. Once a counterweight to our sweaty striving for ego gratification, yoga has become an unctuous adjunct to it.”
Yup.
But while the column begins with interesting insight and valid critique, it devolves into summarizing a recent article in Yoga Journal, chastizing the magazine’s editors, and lambasting the phantom yogini-subscriber who would actually take the magazine’s advice to heart.
“The final step in the great journey of self-understanding the Yoga Journal editors have force-marched [the writer] on is realizing it’s all about her “relationship with herself.” Whitney Houston yoga: I found the greatest love of all—Me! It’s the return of New Age Me-generation narcissism. And there’s nothing worse than narcissism posing as humility.”
Okay, he’s got a point here. Yoga Journal has been market-shaped into a women’s lifestyle magazine. It’s getting fluffier and fluffier.
But that YJ story was a particularly strange one. I remember it.
Still, Rosenbaum’s column would have been so much more interesting as a think piece about the weird contradictions in the current yoga environment–the mass-marketification among them.
http://www.slate.com/id/2162283/
in Uncategorized.“Apparently the Mr. Universe days are over. Gold’s Gym, one of his last strongholds, has finally decided to divorce the oil-slicked rock-hard prototype patron of their long heritage to draw yoga mamas and mellow boomers into the building.”
Because that’s where the money is…
http://www.adrants.com/2007/03/golds-gym-drops-barbell-picks-up-yoga-bri.php
in Uncategorized.This is another stab at Robert Love’s excellent review of yoga’s representation in the media in America. Reprinted in the Utne, onine. Originally from Columbia Journalism Review.
http://www.utne.com/issues/2007_140/features/12487-1.html
in Uncategorized.
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Face Yoga? In NYTimes so gotta be true…
