Posts Tagged ‘yoga’

KarmaTube: Be the Change

May 11th, 2011 kate

In the age of YouTube, it’s fun to sit back and watch a video of twins talking or a cat using the potty. But KarmaTube wants videos to do more than entertain: they view video as a medium to inspire action–either in the world or in your own heart.

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The website features videos that both pull your heartstrings and make you want to jump out of your seat and do something: Recent ones showed how some creative kids in Thailand started their own football team; a project that provides handmade hats to orphans in South Africa; and how one woman found art to help heal after the loss of a child. After each video, KarmaTube suggests ways you can create change based on what you just saw, whether this means thinking about tackling a problem in a new way, or volunteering in your community.

Visit here to watch a video, suggest a video, create a video, or spread the word.

We want to know: What do you do that inspires Karma Yoga (the yoga of action) in others?

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

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White House Easter Yoga

April 27th, 2011 kate

egg_yoga.jpeg“Let’s roll some eggs
and do some yoga!” exclaimed First Lady Michelle Obama, from the White House balcony on Monday morning.

The theme for this year’s annual White House Easter Egg Roll
was “Get Up and Go!” a reflection of the First Lady’s nationwide campaign
against childhood obesity through exercise and healthy eating.

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YogaWoman, Hear Me Roar

April 6th, 2011 wynona

“You go into any yoga class in the West, and it’s filled with women. And it’s so ironic, women were never part of the yoga tradition at all,” says author Linda Sparrowe in YogaWoman, a new documentary film by sisters Kate and Saraswati Clere.

Yoga traditionally was indeed a male practice. But that has dramatically changed, and YogaWoman documents these stunning changes. With interviews from an all-star cast of female yoga teachers from around the world, such as Shiva Rea, Angela Farmer, Sharon Gannon, Seane Corn, and Cyndi Lee, the film shows how these pioneering women are leading the way to empower a new generation of yoginis.

pro-yogawoman-dvd.pngIt seems that yoga and women is a topic that is close to many a yogini’s heart: “The trailer is going viral with 9,000 views in the last two weeks!” says Kate Clere.

The film isn’t out in wide release yet, but you can visit the site to watch the trailer, pre-order a DVD, get resources about yoga, or join the YogaWoman forums. You can also sign up to host a viewing at your studio or elsewhere in your community.

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Trademarked Yoga Is All The Rage

March 4th, 2011 wynona

bizweek.pngBalancing the business and spiritual sides of yoga has always been a delicate one. An article in Business Week broaches the scramble for yoga teachers to trademark their yoga styles, citing that “out of the

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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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