Yoga Fashion No-NoThe Only of Vancouver comments: NO yoga pants for clubbing. Unsightly! Ugly! Embarassing! Gauche!
http://onlymagazine.ca/Fashion/807/yoga-pants-in-the-club
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Are there a lot of yogis in Egypt or is this part of the Western travel bug?
I think it could be a money-making venture, or tourism venture for Egypt
www.egyptyogafestival.com
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=11033_0_1_0_M
in Uncategorized.Gossip, gossip, gossip. Read the fluff on Naomi Campbell’s bad behavior on The Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007120145,00.html
in Uncategorized.http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=March2007&file=World_News2007031542236.xml
(Why is Peninsula, Qatar’s Leading English Daily newspaper reporting on the Indian army?)
in Uncategorized.This from Taiwan. A woman who had her breasts enlarged from an A to a C cup felt her right implant pop in yoga class. Her surgeon is skeptical that yoga is the cause. She is adamant that it is.
Strange days…
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/03/12/2003351920
in Uncategorized.Enigmatic guru, Swami Ramdev got into touble with Indian health authorities recently for claiming that yoga can cure diseases including cancer. They asked him to stop making false claims.
In July he will visit Scotland to instruct people in how to help themselves, the Sunday Herald reports.
Sunit Poddar, a yoga teacher who organized his visit says, “”Before I met him I was sceptical,” she said. “But I have become a complete believer. I lost more than five stones in five months and I had several different health problems, such as hypertension, for which I had to take 12 tablets a day. Now I am not on a single tablet.”
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1251042.0.0.php
in Uncategorized.The New York Times comments on the issue of young, unseasoned yoga teachers. Who wants to be taught by someone with no life experience? Some people do. The article essentially says:
“Those who drop in once a week for a class don’t necessarily want a seasoned teacher, or an evolving connection with an instructor. But discerning students who are committed to their practice feel a teacher should be a wellspring of inspiration about how best to live.”
And Shiva Rea, perenially wise adds a cautionary note that I wish more instructors would heed:
“Shiva Rea, 40, a renowned vinyasa flow teacher, who trains other teachers, is more blunt. A 50-year-old student doesn’t want to hear a 20-year old teacher “ramble on about the profundities of life,” she said. “I tell people you’re learning to be a river guide, but it’s all about the river. When you’re really connected to your breath then you’re in the river, and leading people through it. When in doubt, don’t talk.”
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:BgE312eLMA0J:www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/mar/09/unconventional_twist_yoga_younger_teachers/+%22Unconventional+Twist+in+Yoga:+Younger+Teachers%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
in Uncategorized.This is cool. Check out the pics of workers doing yoga on stacks of plywood.
From the article: “Here, contractors and clerks limber up, before they lumber up. It’s a program called Yoga for the Construction Industry…..
“Am I standing squarely while I’m drilling a hole, rather than drilling it over to the side?”, he asks, as he mimics the motion of drilling. “Can I actually drill it straight ahead where I have the most energy and the most power.”
It’s California!
Beauty!
in Uncategorized.This just for the novelty of it: Dunja Lingwood, 56, of Anacortes, WA, is walking from the far, far west coast to New York on a cause for peace.
According to the article on GoAnacortes.com, “She said “Retirement should mean, not a cessation of activity, but a change of activity with a more complete giving of your life to service.”
“dunja plans to walk 12 miles a day, making her way down Whidbey Island first and eventually getting to the Pacific Coast and Highway 101.
By word of mouth, she has lined up people to stay with in Oak Harbor, Port Townsend, Seattle and other cities in the Northwest.”
Visit her blog about her journey at peaceishealthy.blogspot.com
Go Dunja!
http://www.goanacortes.com/articles/2007/03/07/news/news04.txt
in Uncategorized.A few–just a very few–thoughts on what yoga is from the Web site and blog, yoga-abode.com. As the editor, London writer Lucia Crockcroft notes, no one can agree on a snug definition.
She says, “Perhaps it’s sensible to follow the lead of yoga teacher Jo Stewart, and give up the pigeon-hole approach. “Yoga defies a rigid definition and is not practiced dogmatically”, she says.”
http://www.yoga-abode.com/node/399
Here’s another think piece on myyogahealth blog: http://myyogahealth.blogspot.com/2007/03/yoga-explained.html
What is yoga to you? I’m curious.
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