Posts Tagged ‘news’

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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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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LeBron James: Yoga Keeps Me Fit

Miami Heat hoops star LeBron James recently credited yoga for his peak physical performance. In an article in the Miami Herald by Joseph Goodman called “LeBron James’s big ’secret’: yoga,” the superstar 250-pound athlete says that yoga contributes to his stamina on the court:

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“Does it work for everybody? I don’t know,” James said Friday. “I’m not a
guru about how to be in the best condition — don’t let me sit here and
tell you that. But it works for me.”

We can’t say for sure, but we suspect that James’s yoga practice might also be cultivating a mental attitude of presence. When asked about his future in the NBA, he said: “I can’t live in the future, I’ve got to live right now.” Very yogic, indeed.

We want to know: How has yoga changed how you perform other athletic pursuits?

Mediations on Fasting

fasting225.jpgHunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human experience. Writing about the Islam occasion of Ramadan, Ali articulates the process of fasting from dusk to dawn:

“Twenty-nine or thirty days to explore the line
between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think
about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes.
He also compares the process to yoga. “[Yoga] is a practice, not unlike fasting, that allows us to practice linking
the inside-the private experiences of the body and the mind-with the
outside, the pulsing, breathing, actual world.”

Even if you’ve never fasted in your life, Ali addresses the other way we deny our appetites–something most human beings can relate to.

We want to know: Have you ever denied your appetite? What was the result?

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