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Southern California Yoga Guide

Paloma Chavez
yogaguide.jpgWill you be traveling through Southern California and looking for a yoga studio? Or is it your lunch hour and you have just enough time to do a quick yoga class? Lululemon has compiled and published a pocket-sized guide of yoga studios across Southern California that will help you find a studio throughout several cities . (more…)
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To Practice in Nature

Paloma Chavez

yoganature.jpgIn La Canada, California lays a lush botanical retreat – Descanso Gardens. Easy access and open pathways is a common draw for the community and surrounding neighborhoods. For the last couple of years they have offered a series of Fitness Walks and Yoga Classes. This week will be the beginning of their summer session. (more…)

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H.S. Arun Teaches at Yoga House

Paloma Chavez

arun.jpgYoga House has a reputation of providing unique and innovative yoga workshops in Pasadena, CA. For one weekend in June they will be hosting Sri. H.S. Arun, yoga master and disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar. According to Co-Owner of Yoga House, Farzaneh Noori, who experienced his work at the Yogachary Festival, “ I feel like the essence of yoga came through Arun’s teaching as he took the group deeper than they’d ever thought possible.” (more…)

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Laughing Out Loud for Yoga

Paloma Chavez

laughfour.jpgOn May 4th, devotees of the World Laughter Day gathered to celebrate a day of good fun, community and most of all -laughter. From Oregon to Frankfurt, Germany, Laughter Yoga was heard in the streets, in the forests and in public parks. (more…)

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A New Life Found Through Yoga

Paloma Chavez

menyoga.jpgIn Johannesburg, South Africa a tough love program with juvenile drug offenders has included yoga as a path to recovery.  Many youth have become addicted to a new “drug cocktail” called Sugars. This is a lethal combination of rat poison, heroin and cocaine. (more…)

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Are You Suffering From ‘Type A’ Yoga?

John Sovec

Leave your competitive self with your shoes!It is such a challenge in our modern “go get it” world to actually find the time to stop and rest. We are constantly encouraged to be productive and push our limits. For many people, this ‘type A’ energy influences their yoga practice. It is so easy in a yoga class to let competition get in the way of wisdom. You know that moment when you realize that the person next to you is “working it out” and, even though you’re feeling a little tired, you push it so that you don’t seem like a yoga wimp. (more…)

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Date Night Yoga

Paloma Chavez

yogacouples.jpgIt’s all about intimacy and connection at the heart level as well as the physical,” said Sutton. “Every yoga pose is done touching your partner.”

So when you are running to your yoga class and your loved one is racing to their aerobic workout, when do you find the time to be in a quiet bonding moment. Most couples will just let out a sigh and say “Not enough time in the day.”

In Redding, CA a local yoga studio has created a special yoga session for couples to share some intimate connection. Nancy Sutton and her husband Mark Pierce, M.D. of House of Yoga, are providing an opportunity for couples to deepen their relationship through yoga poses and guided meditations. (more…)

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Free Yoga for All

Paloma Chavez

yogaforpeople.jpg“There will be no correct clothes. There will be no proper payment. There will be no right answers. No glorified teachers. No ego no script no pedestals. This yoga is for everyone.”

Yoga to the People is located in New York and Berkely and they are committed to making yoga affordable and accessible to all who are interested in a yoga practice. Operating as a donation based studio they are spreading the word through visitors and students. At each session there is a “suggested donation” box, but no one is turned away for lack of the suggested $10.00. (more…)

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Hatha Yoga Can Help Your Swing

Paloma Chavez

yogagolf.jpgAlthough Yoga Golf has been circulating around for awhile, there is still some new ways that it is being adopted by the general public. At the Pelican Hill Golf Club in California they offer a golf clinic that is designed to bring balance and muscle control to your game. (more…)

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Yoga Takes on Punk Rock

Paloma Chavez

punkrock.jpgIn Chicago, the music is Punk and the practice is Yoga. This goes for Seattle, New York, Toronto and Vancouver. Kimberlee Jensen Stedl began this movement in 2003, as she says “I had a very simple goal: to experiment with live music and yoga and teach in a nightclub setting, hoping to create an atmosphere that would attract teenagers.” (more…)

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