Yoga stunts are the new yoga stunts. Talk about being structurally sound. We don’t care how proper the alignment is, you will not catch us popping poses on a 900-foot long see-through glass bridge hinging between two mountains 600 feet above the ground…which is exactly what is happening in these pictures where 100 brave women did [...]
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It’s hard out there for a yoga teacher. Like, how can you break through all the noise and get famous anyway? Instagram selfies are fine and all, but how does one truly rise above the rest to get noticed? For one yoga teacher, signing up for the first ever production of The Ultimate Fighter in China without [...]
Quick, how many pregnant women does it take to break a yoga world record? If you said 500, you win! Where did this record-making yoga event take place? If you said China you get super extra bonus points. That’s right, 500 women who are preggers gathered together in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to practice [...]
Interesting news from the East: China loves yoga! This week Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited India and gave a 30-minute address at the Indian Council of World Affairs where he praised Mahatma Gandhi, quoted from the Upanishads, spoke highly of Yoga and its relation to Chinese calligraphy, and waxed poetic on how much influence Buddhism has had on Chinese culture. Apparently Wen [...]
News from the East: They’re calling it Yoga’s “official” debut in China. The first Art of Living center was inaugurated Sunday at its new home, 165-acres of land on the banks of the Yangtse river in Beijing. Of course, yoga has actually been in China for years, and started to really catch on with the [...]
