Posts Tagged ‘summer’

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.

Sonic Sanctuary

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We love Donna De
Lory
. The former pop princess–sidekick to Madonna, no less–has
refashioned herself as a cooing, crooning kirtan chanteuse. Her sweet,
ethereal renditions of “Om Namah Shivaya,” “Hare Krishna,” and “Aham
Prema” leave you feeling that’s she’s an instrument through which flows
the very breath of god.

Tune into her good vibes on albums “The Lover and the Beloved” and
“Sanctuary”.
Better yet, catch her in person this summer at Lilith Fair, Wanderlust, or Bhakti Fest. Until then, tide
yourself over with a music download, just for YJ Buzz Blogistas:


Click here for the free download!

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Mind Over Madness

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Celebrate the summer solstice by unrolling your mat in the world’s most serene, sun-drenched environment: Times Square. No, really. Join hundreds of fellow yogis on June 21 for Solstice in Times Square,
a massive group yoga experience taking place at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th–right in the heart of the square. The point, according to organizers, is to find tranquility and transcendence even in this, the world’s busiest, noisiest place. It’s true what they say: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!

The event is free, but registration is required.
Sessions begin at 7:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. Sign up fast–there’s a 6 p.m. class, too, but it already has a waiting list.

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

A Studio a Day

When I think of a yoga retreat my mind fills with visions of yoga classes on a beach, vegetarian meals, and daily massages in an exotic locale. But you don’t have to go to an exotic place to have a yoga retreat–there are likely tons of studios close by. Go to a new one every day, take from as many different teachers as you can and instead of a pricey summer yoga retreat, you can have something more like a “yoga adventure.”

In fact, the yoga adventure trip may be this summer’s trend in the yoga community.

The writers of YoYoYogis (a blog at yoyoyogi.com) are spending their summer exploring 100 different yoga studio in 100 days. They’re visiting studios from all over the West Coast, but Seattle to San Diego and blogging about their experiences along the way.

Meanwhile, the folks at YogaMates are trying out 50 studios in 50 days and will be tracking their progress through video blogs.

I wonder if anyone is taking a yoga adventure on the East Coast, then we’d have a nice well-rounded idea of the yoga scene across the country. Have you ever gone on a yoga adventure?

Solstice in the City

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Summer Solstice is just around the corner–the corner of Broadway and 7th Street. On June 21st, part of Times Square will become ginormous urban yoga studio as yoga students take their asana practice to the streets to celebrate the longest day of the year.

The event, hosted by the Times Square Alliance, will feature asana classes and yoga talks throughout the day. It is free to participants who registered early (though all sessions are now full).

Have any of you attended this event in the past? Were you able to tune out the city noises and focus on your breath?

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