June 24th, 2010 
levis25 
by Kathryn Budig
I was so excited when Elena Brower, Goddess of yoga, invited me to demo at the maha event–Yoga in Central Park–but once I added up my financial sum for taking off, my numbers were looking dangerously high. Dismayed, but happy to stay off of a plane and knowing all is as it should be, I decided to watch the live stream from the genius boys at Yogaglo.
April 19th, 2010 levis25 
Photo by David Lauridsen for The New York Times
Did you see the story about Demi Moore in Sunday’s New York Times Arts & Leisure section?
It was a stylish, if perfunctory, update on her career. (She’s back! She’s better than ever! But now she’s playing the mother!) But what drew our eye was this aside, in which writer Jennifer Steinhauer explains a fallow period in Moore’s career, a time in which the actress disappeared from the Hollywood radar to focus solely on family: “It was not that she retired, as was widely reported, she was just resting, a career Savasana.” End of sentence. No long-winded
explanation–or short-winded one, for that matter–was offered.
This surely is a cultural turning point–we have reached such a level of yoga saturation that Savasana has become a common-usage term, in need of no definition, no parenthetical aside, no translation–even in a mass-market newspaper of record. Will the moment be memorialized by Ben Zimmer in an upcoming On Language column? We can only hope so!
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
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Tags: actress, career, david-lauridsen, fallow-period, focus-solely, hollywood, language, moment, mother, times-arts, widely-reported, will-the-moment, yoga-saturation 
Comments Off August 27th, 2009 wynona 
If you live or work in a city, you know how difficult it can be to find a moment of quiet. Between the buses, sirens, and people chattering it can seem like an impossible feat to even make a phone call, much less stop for a sun salute or meditation break. City noise is one of the reasons behind a new yoga class held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. “There’s very little quiet place left in the city,” class organizer Rick Castro told CBS news. “This is a place where you really can just come and just be with yourself and meditate.” (Please watch the video by clicking here.) “The spirits are with us,” he added later. “They come through us.” The class costs $20 and will take place every Tuesday at 7 pm.
What do you think? Does this align with the yoga philsophy on death and dying? Or is it creepy?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
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