Recent Posts

Free Online Yoga Class

Free Online Yoga Class – Crow Time with Joan Hyman

Free Online Yoga Class – Crow Time with Joan Hyman

Free class! This free online yoga class hosted by YogaVibes. Check it out. It’s about that time! To bring forth the rhythm and the….oh, nevermind. We know you’ll find some good vibrations with this new free online class from Joan Hyman. STOP…Crow Time! (ok, we’re done.) Description: A core class leading to [...]

by × May 8, 2013 × Comments are Disabled

Cute

Guinea Pig Yoga

Guinea Pig Yoga

For when yoga makes you feel like a guinea pig! (Or you want to smile at the utter adorableness of guinea pigs doing yoga.) Adorable illustrations by Leslie DeSantis. Find them at her etsy shop When Guinea Pigs Fly. —— Earlier… Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling Loves Your Yoga Pants Style [...]

by × May 8, 2013 × 3 comments

Business of Yoga, Lululemon Pantscapade

Lululemon Sued Over Exec Bonus Pay Increase, Right Before See-Through Pants Recall

Lululemon Sued Over Exec Bonus Pay Increase, Right Before See-Through Pants Recall

Woops. Lululemon Athletica Inc. has been sued by Hallandale Beach Police Officers and Firefighters’ Personnel Retirement Fund in Florida, the Associated Press reported. Great, what did lulu do now, try to get retired first responders to put out their PR fires? Not exactly. The suing party are Lululemon shareholders and they are [...]

by × May 7, 2013 × 0 comments

Celebriyogis, News

Jessica Simpson’s Yoga Obsession is Cray Cray, Says Fiance

Jessica Simpson’s Yoga Obsession is Cray Cray, Says Fiance

OK, so this is likely a piece of tabloidy celebrity gossip rubbish but is it so wrong we want to believe it’s true? This tale comes to us via the National Enquirer by way of Gossip Cop, so, uh…yeah, we feel a little dirty sharing, but it’s hilarious and mayyybe [...]

by × May 7, 2013 × 1 comment

YogOpinions

You Don’t Need to Meditate

You Don’t Need to Meditate

by J. Brown Hype surrounding meditation abounds. Wherever you look, someone is extolling the virtues of meditation while unwittingly sabotaging its occurrence. The intent is to help people better manage stress and enjoy more fulfilling lives. But what many refer to as meditation is often nothing of the sort and, [...]

by × May 6, 2013 × 69 comments

This Week in Yoga

TWIY: Top Yoga Cities, Breaking the Yoga ‘Mold’, The Other Side of Inversions, Hey Girl…

TWIY: Top Yoga Cities, Breaking the Yoga ‘Mold’, The Other Side of Inversions, Hey Girl…

Happy May! Do you feel different? You LOOK different. Did you get a haircut? A new pair of yoga pants? A five minute shoulderstand? Just kidding, we can’t see you! But we hear you, ya know what we mean? Righto. It’s full swing spring and we couldn’t be happier to [...]

by × May 3, 2013 × 0 comments

Cute, Yoga Pants, Yoga Pop

Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling Loves Your Yoga Pants Style

Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling Loves Your Yoga Pants Style

Ryan Gosling continues his campaign for Mr. Yoga McDreamy Pants. As if to say, Hey girl, don’t you worry about what anyone else thinks, if you like to wear yoga pants all day, to yoga class, to run errands, to the spa with me later because you deserve it baby, [...]

by × May 3, 2013 × 1 comment

News

Ryan Gambrell demos his side plank. | image: US News

Little People Do Yoga, Too

This mini yoga series on U.S. News has us heartily encouraged. We posted earlier about Ryan McGraw, an inspiring yoga teacher living with cerebral palsy, reminding us that yoga is adaptable and available to everybody, yoga “molds” be damned. Here we have another Ryan. He’s Ryan Gambrell, a 29-year-old San [...]

by × May 2, 2013 × 1 comment

News

New Grand Theft Auto V Includes Yoga Mini-Game

New Grand Theft Auto V Includes Yoga Mini-Game

Because if there’s one thing we’ve always told our gamer friends Grand Theft Auto needs more of, it’s yoga! We’re not big gamers here, but we’ve spent enough time watching friends navigate the chaotic world of Grand Theft Auto, and in between all the carjacking, manic gun chases and high speed pursuits we [...]

by × May 2, 2013 × 0 comments

Events, Meditations on Mutations

Pink Floyd Laser Yoga | image: wellandgoodnyc.com

What It’s Like To Survive Pink Floyd Laser Yoga

Ah, the marriage of classic progressive rock, psychedelic art and modern yoga. A match made in acid trip heaven! It’s not necessarily stoner yoga, but you’ll likely feel like you’re high at Pink Floyd laser yoga class, a sensory stimulating experience dreamed up by Portland, Oregon-based Chris Calarco, who’s also previously [...]

by × May 2, 2013 × 1 comment

Yogitorials

The Great Yoga Mat Roll vs. Fold Debate…Are You Going to Roll That?

The Great Yoga Mat Roll vs. Fold Debate…Are You Going to Roll That?

Call me crazy, but I get skeeved out over rolling my yoga mat. The mechanics seems natural, but, to me, the practice is ick. Not that I’m suggesting your yoga studios are anything but sparkling clean. I would never! And sure your feet carry enough tootsie tartar on their own [...]

by × May 1, 2013 × 36 comments

Practice

Headstand at the rope wall via Iyengar Yoga Canada

Turning Upside Down: Judith Hanson Lasater on the ‘Other Side’ of Inversions

Practicing challenging inversions often becomes a goal in and of itself. But inversions aren’t just about ‘getting’ the pose, says yoga teacher and author Judith Hanson Lasater, P.T., Ph.D. in this interview with Eva Norlyk Smith of YogaUOnline.com. Inversions can reveal deeper aspects of our practice to us and open new [...]

by × May 1, 2013 × 14 comments

News

Ryan McGraw in his favorite pose. | image: Tracy Caracciolo, US News

Yoga with Cerebral Palsy, and Not Fitting the Yoga ‘Mold’

“He doesn’t fit the mold, which is fine,” is how U.S. News describes Ryan McGraw’s approach to yoga as a 30-year-old living with cerebral palsy. This is at once uplifting and depressing. What mold? Why has yoga reached the point of moldyness? No one likes molds, not even ones made [...]

by × April 30, 2013 × 8 comments

Business of Yoga

Dharma Detective: Is Your Yoga Teacher Faking Twitter Popularity?

Dharma Detective: Is Your Yoga Teacher Faking Twitter Popularity?

Dharma Detective, here. Your one and only source into the superficial lives of yoga’s so-called elite. Today we expose the seedy, tweety underbelly of Twitter’s yoga community. Hold onto your birds, it’s going to be a bumpy flight. They spout love and light, truth and clarity, quotations worthy of a [...]

by × April 30, 2013 × 8 comments

News

Oakley Goes on Yoga Pants Offensive With New Ad Campaign

Oakley Goes on Yoga Pants Offensive With New Ad Campaign

Uh oh! Oakley is on the yoga-pants-for-leisure offensive. While the lulus want women to yoga, eat, sleep, shop, flash your business in their clothing, Oakley wants none of that namby pamby non-workout crap in workout clothing. They’ve created a few 30 second spots to enforce their stance that their exercise [...]

by × April 29, 2013 × 13 comments