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You Picked ‘Em! Talent Search Finalists Announced

April 21st, 2011 levis25

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You voted, we listened. The yogis with the most votes have been named the top five finalists in Yoga Journal’s Talent Search.

They are:

Shannon McGee
Paducah, Kentucky

Casey Van Zandt
New Orleans

Marcelo Tessari
New York

Vanessa Pattison
Sacramento, California

Mark Gonzales
San Francisco

Read more about them here.

From these five, Yoga Journal’s editors will choose a winner who will be flown to our San Francisco office and participate in a photoshoot to be featured in the pages of the September issue. Make sure to pick up your copy to find out who it is!

Thanks to everyone who participated. We had almost 3,000 talented, passionate yogis submit their photos and share their stories with us, and with all of you. We are awed by the amazing yoga talent out there. Congratulations to everyone. Namaste!

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

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Iconic Bay Area Yoga Teacher Dies

March 2nd, 2011 levis25

larry schultz.pngLarry Schultz, founder of It’s Yoga studio and developer of the signature practice known as Rocket Yoga, has died. He was 60.

Schultz founded It’s Yoga in San Francisco in 1987, creating a vibrant hub for a growing yoga community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known as one of the foremost Ashtanga Yoga teachers in the West, he also taught thousands of classes across the U.S. and abroad and shepherded more than 1,000 Ashtanga Vinyasa students through his rigorous 200-hour teacher training course. In the 1980s, Schultz traveled with and taught yoga to the band the Grateful Dead.

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New Research Says Yoga Changes Brain Chemistry

November 17th, 2010 levis25

Yogis have known for centuries that a yoga practice makes us feel calm and centered. But science is finally catching up with what we’ve all experienced on the mat and the cushion:

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Pretty Woman Converts to Hindu Woman

August 9th, 2010 kate

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America’s red-headed sweet heart has been seduced by the spiritual lures of India. Julia Roberts told Elle that she is “definitely a practicing Hindi” after her time in India filming the upcoming Eat, Pray, Love. USA Today followed up on the cover interview with a story Sunday.

According to
a 2009 Associated Press story relying on The Times of India
newspaper, Roberts’ children have been given Hindu names. It quoted a Hindu priest, Swami Dharam Dev, as saying:

“I
have named her twins Hazel and Phinnaeus as Laxmi and Ganesh, while
Henry will be called Krishna Balram.”

No word yet on whether or not Roberts’ practices yoga, since of
course being Hindu does not require it. USA Today was also quick to distinguish the difference between practicing yoga and practicing Hindism, but couldn’t resist posting an image of Sarah Palin in Tree Pose as an argument for the “poses don’t have to be spiritual” side. (We couldn’t resist either.)

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Inappropriate Yoga Guy Heads for the Big Screen!

August 3rd, 2010 levis25

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Remember when Ogden took over at Yoga Journal? So-Cal yogis with a light sense of humor still have time to

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