February 2012
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Yoga on Trial
mentalflossr:
In the years before World War I, America faced a terrifying enemy on the home front: yoga.
This is a really weird story.
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Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here →
“Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult — an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise.
Hatha yoga — the parent of the styles now practiced around the globe — began as a branch of Tantra. In medieval India, Tantra devotees sought to fuse the male and female aspects of the cosmos into a blissful state of consciousness.
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Yoga Mogul Turns Out to Be a Total Scumbag →
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Different yoga body types →
Very similar to the Western concept of endomorph/mesomorph/ectomorph, and there is also the attribution of personality types to body type. I understand and respect that yoga is primarily spiritual as well as physical, but I’m calling bullshit on this one. Correlating whether or not someone is calm during times of stress or angry during times of stress with their body type? Please.
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How do you do your hair for yoga?
I usually go with a ponytail, but in positions where you are lying on your back, it gets in the way. What’s a good hairstyle for yoga so that a) your hair is out of the way, and b) your hairstyle doesn’t get in the way?
—Karin
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Vintage Yoga, Audrey-style →
winstonwrites:
“Audrey finds that ‘the ability to relax is an important asset to keeping healthy.’”
what a classy way to say FUCK YEAH SAVASANA.
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Yoga for Mental Health →
In this society, we do tend to forget the fitness is just as much about the body as it is about the mind. Or rather, that the mind and body are not separate; what is good for the mind is good for the body and vice versa because they are one in the same.
Speaking from personal experience, yoga certainly helps when things get rough on the mental health end. Although yoga will not cure depression...
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up and at 'em: Dedicate Your Practice →
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cmartgreen:
Dedicating every yoga class I take to someone different brings me a little bit of love and happiness. I never plan who will be next, their face just pops up in my mind and I carry them with me throughout my practice. Sometimes the face that appears is a bully from grade school, sometimes it’s someone I’ve bullied or been rude to, sometimes it’s someone I don’t know...
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Mindful Eating as Food for Thought →
“The concept [mindful eating] has roots in Buddhist teachings. Just as there are forms of meditation that involve sitting, breathing, standing and walking, many Buddhist teachers encourage their students to meditate with food, expanding consciousness by paying close attention to the sensation and purpose of each morsel. In one common exercise, a student is given three raisins, or a...
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Madonna Had Hydraulic Yoga Mat Installed at... →
What the hell is a hydraulic yoga mat???
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Inexperienced yoga teachers could kill →
An obligatory yoga-is-dangerous post which only boils down to listen to your own body.
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I fell asleep three times during savasana.
But not into deep sleep; each time, I reached the hazy world in between consciousness and full sleep. And each time my yoga teacher spoke (roughly once every five minutes), I jolted back to consciousness as though I had been dreaming about falling.
I wish nap time extended past preschool and kindergarten.
—Karin
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Yoga Helps Giants Prep for Super Bowl →
For today’s game, I hope they cut away to Gisele every few minutes, and I hope they do a cut of her sipping red wine and Eli Manning’s wife chugging beer with the guys.
—Karin
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Yoga room opens in San Francisco airport →
THIS IS AWESOME—I crave yoga every time I get off a plane. Plus airports can be super stressful, and loud, and overstimulating so a yoga room sounds like the perfect retreat.
Now if only they would add a yoga room in the Ithaca Airport! Probably never going to happen…besides, that’s what the rest of the city of Ithaca is for, anyway :P
—y
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“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be...”
– B.K.S. Iyengar
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