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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Soup Kitchen Yoga
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Often when you spend your days surfing the web for interesting articles about yoga in the news, you encounter the same beautiful bodies in amazing asanas without a touch of fatigue in their faces or cellulite on their bodies. Their hair is perfectly styled, with manicured hands and pedicured feet and only the most pricey yoga clothes. It might turn readers off to lead your article or clip with a dirty, large, poorly dressed, unkempt person on the cover. So when you encounter a person who is breaking through those stereotypes in a profound way, you pay attention, and in the process you open your heart. One yoga teacher has been able to see beyond all of the external gloss of the growing popularity of Western yoga, and find beauty on the floor of a soup kitchen teaching hatha yoga to homeless men.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Yoga Event Banned from Town Commons
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In observation of the UN’s international day of peace, Yoga teacher Molly Schlangen of Raymond, NH wanted to lead a group of practitioners in a “Yoga for Peace” practice at the town common area on Sunday September 20. But, when she requested permission from the Raymond selectmen, it was denied. The selectmen said that the request was denied because there was not enough information about Schlagen’s plans for the space.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Yoga Really Can Heal Your Back
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When you know something is right, you don’t require mountains of proof, but validation sure is nice every once in a while. So, when the news blasted through the popular media that yoga has a positive effect on chronic lower back pain, the validation train arrived.
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Are Americans Becoming More Hindu?
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According to a recent article in Newsweek siting several independent sources, the traditional Christian beliefs and values on which this nation was founded is shifting focus. Though 76 percent of Americans still consider themselves Christian, the traditional ways that many within this group define God, religion, and eternity are moving more toward a broader understanding of divinity and away from an absolute viewpoint.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009 by Golden & Sullivan
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Pose of the Month: Purvottanasana
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 I read a line in a book once that has stuck with me for years, “God gather’s his sheep before dark.” It wasn’t in a Christian text, but in a yogic one.; the words of a guru to a struggling student. You will never be left behind in the dark because the sun will always rise even in the blackest night. Purvottonasana (inclined plane pose) is an asana that opens us to that inner light. The light of the divine, the light of God, the light within.
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In a statement made on August 11, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, criticized the new Yoga Journal series, “Ogden: The Inappropriate Yoga Guy” saying that the age old and revered practice of yoga was “not something to be spoofed at.” Yoga Journal, a popular California based yoga magazine, picked up the web series after it was a “hit” on Youtube.com, and has developed five episodes to date. |
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