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How to be a yoga Instagram star
by By Lys Riley Can’t do handstand yet? What kind of yogi are you, anyway? About Lys Riley Lys Riley has been trying to make people laugh since she’s been able to talk. Her YouTube channel, LysMonkey,...
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This is how I feel today.
by By Emily Tally I’m sick today. Yesterday I had a sore throat and clogged ears, and today everything is draining out of my nose and I’m exhausted and feverish. I called in sick to my Karma Cleaner...
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Bad feminist
by By Dani Burlison Dani Burlison is fantastic writer who recently released a book of essays, Dendrophilia & Other Social Taboos: True Stories. You can get a hold of a copy here and check out Dani...
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Free will and yoga catchphrases
by By Patricia Tillman If you look closely, you will see that yoga—and by yoga, I decidedly mean modern, popular, exoteric yoga in the West—plays host to two apparently incompatible modern...
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Why I cross the line: teaching yoga on my terms
by By Lee Anne Finfinger There is one comment that leaves me feeling particularly wounded. “None of us are trying to be divas.” A yoga teacher friend says that to me while referencing a conversation...
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Recovering Dreamer
by By Kate Marie Last week, I quit my dream job. Wait, no. That didn’t come out right. Let me back up and try again. Last week, I “let go” of my dream job—the one I spent the last three years...
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Naked yoga
by By Nancy Taylor Naked yoga: I’ve tried it! Have you? Got your attention, eh? If there was a February 29th it would be the 10-month anniversary of the day I started taking Bikram Yoga. I’ve...
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No feet
by By Kate Stone Heard in: Various Yoga Studios, Boston Filed under: “Misappropriated Yoga Tenets” It doesn’t always make sense to align our modern lives to each of the Yamas and Niyamas of Patanjali’s...
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Yoga teachers are dicks
by By Nick Hansinger Do you ever wonder why some yoga teachers are such dicks? Yep, dicks. There. I said it. There’s the control freak who calls you out in class because your middle toe is two degrees...
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Forget regret (is a silly philosophy)
by By Trish Tillman I’ve noticed a rather concerning recent trend in the literature of pop-spirituality. Writers will speak of some questionable, possibly damaging decision they made in the past, and...
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Not Another Chaturanga
by By Lisa Morford “There will come a day,” she said, “when you won’t be able to stand the thought of another fucking chaturanga. And that’s when yoga really happens.” Three months into my yoga teacher...
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If My Yoga Mat Was a Person
by By Lys Riley If your yoga mat could talk… let’s just be glad it can’t. About Lys Riley Lys Riley has been trying to make people laugh since she’s been able to talk. Her YouTube channel, LysMonkey,...
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Why my butt-dimples just unsubscribed from Yoga Journal
by By Rachel Meyer Yesterday I sat with my kid in my lap and leafed through the latest Yoga Journal. There was a fashion supplement, a celebrity profile of a pretty teacher who married a famous actor,...
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Severe depression, suicide, yoga and Robin Williams
by By Tiffany Rose My heart skipped a beat as I held my breath when I read that he was dead. His face, so deeply lined with character, laughter and grief, and his manic hilarity a telltale sign of...
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The ashram within, during pregnancy and beyond
by By Corinne Andrews The only thing I cared about during the last two years of my UMass college adventure was practicing and studying yoga. There was nothing I wanted more than to surround myself...
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The most arrogant T-shirt in the world
by By Trish Tillman I’ve seen my fair share of annoyingly self-important sayings from the world of New-Agey pop-spirituality—most likely, you have as well. We could even compare notes. But the other...
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Yoga lit: a mat-side guide to the genre
by (Or, how to write your own yoga memoir or novel in six easy steps) In February, 2006, Viking published Elizabeth Gilbert’s international best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over ten...
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Yoga might actually be the problem
by By Nadine Fawell I love yoga. I’ll confess that upfront. But I generally stay well away from yoga marketing because it makes my crazy come back. Since I do yoga in large part to MANAGE my mental...
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The end of yoga
by By Davin Sauer I’ve read a lot of articles in various yoga/spiritual magazines that end with phrases like, “suddenly I realized” or, “and then I just knew.” If you are meeting me here, you’ve...
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Enlightenment: indulging the pathology of perfectionism
by By Cherryl Duncan Leo Burnett, a famous American advertising executive, said, “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” Quoting...
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