That’s Why It’s Called A Practice

Several of you loved this when I posted on Facebook, so I'm re-posting here. It's a good one. Crack Smokin' Yoga Teachers Elephant Journal/Candice Garrett, June 16, 2011 I wrote an article recently about a really hard day I had, and about having a drink at the end of it. Holy mother of dogma. While there were quite a few who could identify (mainly real humans, and mothers like me) there were quite a few purists and...

Have You Been Changed By Your Yoga Practice?

There's a lot to absorb here, but it's so worth the time. If you have a continuing Yoga practice, have you experienced the changes Dearbhla writes about? Asana As Eros/Dearbhla Kelly M.A./May 3, 2011 Let me outline a not untypical scenario: Sue starts going to yoga classes at her local gym because she heard it’s a great way to increase muscle tone, improve all-round fitness and generally get in shape. That those who’ve...

Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?

The Real Truth about Yoga & Weight Loss. ~ Anne Falkowski Via elephantjournal.com/Apr 29, 2011 Recently I was at a late afternoon cocktail party and was standing with a group of attractive, smart and well educated women. Their jobs were impressive: an Actuary, Interior Designer, and Executive with one of Hartford, Connecticut’s major insurance companies. In that moment, with half a glass of wine...

An Interview With Govindas of Govindas & Radh...

Kirtan’s Culture of Love: An Interview with Govindas of Bhakti Yoga Shala by Sony Trieu/April 23, 2011 Love!  How would you define it? Myriad textbooks, both academic and spiritual, have tried to pin down this elusive concept. However, the intellectual process always falls short when characterizing a concept that must be felt within each individual.  Once you’ve experienced love inside of yourself, then it only...

Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2011: Yoga, even as it furthers its storefront-by-storefront takeover of American leisure hours, remains a punchline, a shorthand summing-up of a certain way of life. One of the charms of Poser, Claire Dederer's memoir of motherhood and marriage structured around her love affair with yoga, is that--as her title hints--she gets the joke, and tells it very well herself. She knows,...