Archive for the ‘Relaxation Techniques’ Category

January Jones Does Prenatal Yoga!

The blogs are buzzing about the identity of the father of January Jones’s baby. We don’t care about that. We just love it when we spy celebrities like the “Mad Men” star, who is featured in the upcoming X-Men movie, star clutching a yoga mat. We hope that this gets people buzzing about the benefits of prenatal yoga instead!

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Yogis Bare All

“For some yoga practitioners, the body is a sacred vessel that should not be tainted. For others, the skin represents a blank, movable canvas for tattoos displaying thoughts, texts and deities that inspire and inform their practice,” Emily S. Rueb writes in the forward of

Season of the Yoga Music Festival

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It used to be there were yoga conferences and there were music festivals. But now, yoga music festivals are road-trip destinations for yogis, activists, and music lovers to converge and celebrate their shared passions. Here are a few hot-ticket events on our radar this summer:

Hanuman Festival: With teachers like Seane Corn and musicians such as Suzanne Sterling, the Hanuman festival adds yoga, music and seva to the mix in Boulder, Colorado. June 16-19

Wanderlust: The popular destination festival that started in Lake Tahoe, California, this year also rolls into Bondville, Vermont.

Doctor’s Orders: Do Yoga

doctormeditating.jpgA recent study reveals that more Americans than ever–more than one-third of the population–use mind-body practices like yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises, and that their doctors are often the cheerleaders for these approaches. According to researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, one in 30 people were referred to mind-body therapies by a medical provider.

“There’s good evidence to support using mind-body therapies clinically,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, said in a news release from Beth Israel. “Still, we didn’t expect to see provider referral rates that were quite so high.”

Has your doctor ever counseled you to try a mind-body practice?

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Yoga Teacher Helps Heal Haiti

lisarueff.jpgLast October, yoga teacher Lisa Rueff headed to Haiti to help out after the earthquake.