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Best known for his hot Power Vinyasa style, super-star Yogi, Baron Baptiste has teamed up with a leading authority on Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Elliot Frohman to develop a yoga program for people living with MS. The video called My MS Yoga is an at home practice designed to address the specific needs of MS patients as they change from day to day.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Kelly Golden
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Yoga Conferences Go Virtual
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The desire to deepen our understanding and knowledge is a vein that runs deep in the tradition of yoga. Students seek teachers, texts and communities that support the growing aspiration of gaining more wisdom through experience and exposure to those who have it. Students often gain this experience of study through retreats and trainings that can sometimes be timely and costly, though always well worth the time and money, but now there are opportunities to study with experienced, knowledgeable teachers without ever leaving the comfort of your own home as virtual trainings and conferences become more popular.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010 by Kelly Golden
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College Students Meditating to Lower Stress
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Ask any college student, present or former, about the stress of Higher Education, and you will be met with a unanimous response. College is stressful. Even though my college experience is well in my past, I can remember feeling overwhelming stress during the process, to the point that I was experiencing chronic neck and shoulder pain. It was during this very stressful point in my life that I discovered yoga and meditation to help me deal with the mounting expectations of student life. Now a study of D.C. college students shows that meditation can go a long way in helping students deal with the stresses of college.
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Sunday, January 03, 2010 by Kelly Golden
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Empowering Your Intention in 2010
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One of the most common occurrences as one year fades into the next is the creation of a resolution (or a list of them), in hopes of starting the New Year fresh. It is a noble idea delineated by dates on a calendar, but all too often those things that we vow to do, become, achieve, or create end up in the left in the dust, or filed away to come back to sometime in the unnamed future. Yoga often ends up on the list of resolutions with the hope of increasing our health or our balance. But something that is less as well known, is that the practice of yoga itself can add power to resolutions and to your efforts to honor them. Some of the more subtle practices of yoga, like pranayama and meditation, are designed do just that, to make our resolve our reality.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Yoga Teachers Fight Regulations
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Yoga teachers in Virginia are fighting back against planned state regulations of Yoga schools. Three yoga instructors filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop a state mandate which would regulate yoga schools like vocational classes. The officials seeking to impose regulations see it as a way to protect the investments of the students who participate in teacher training programs. Regulations are implemented on vocational classes that prepare students for a job.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Do we Really Need a Yoga Champ?
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According to the wife of Bikram Choudry, Rajashree Choudry, competition and yoga go hand in hand. To support this she has created two non-profit organizations that sponsor and stage yoga competitions in the U.S. and abroad. The most recent of these was in October at a Bikram studio on the Lower East Side, The New York Regional Yoga Championship.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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November Yoga Therapy News
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If your job is to research yoga in the news, you run across amazing articles about how science is again and again proving the physical, mental and emotional benefits of yoga and meditation. So, rather than write a new post every time that science proves what yogis have known for centuries, I’m going to compile them into a collective post and share them about once a month. Here are the ways that yoga benefits your health for November:
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Monday, November 09, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Yoga Class Tax
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The possibility has been brewing for a while, and as the yoga industry continues to expand, even Uncle Sam wants a cut. In Missouri, yoga studios are now required to pay sales tax on classes and services beginning November 1. This after the decision that yoga studios and classes fall under a state law mandating that places of "amusement, entertainment or recreation, games and athletic events" are subject to sales tax. Yoga teachers are riled by the fact that yoga classes fall under any of these categories, and are paying the taxes “under protest.”
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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No Private Lessons for Madonna
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Celebrity yogi and creator of the Bikram Yoga style, Bikram Choudry, has refused a request from Pop Superstar Madonna for private lessons. Choudry offered to include Madonna in his regular classes, but would not see her on a one-to-one basis saying that if she wanted to be a student “[she would] have to leave [her] ego behind.”
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Catholics and Hindus Briefly Unite
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The Catholic Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has issued a statement of goodwill to Hindus at the start of the holy festival of Diwali which was welcomed openly. The council stressed that true human development is a result of respecting the freedom of everyone, and they took a giant leap in that direction by crossing often ardent religious boundaries.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by Kelly Golden
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Eat, Pray, Love, Disrespect?
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So it’s no secret that I take yoga very seriously, but I have a lighter side too. Recent headlines are causing the yogi and the cheeseball in me to clash. I admit that I’m a fan of Julia Roberts, and I also deeply loved the book, Eat, Pray, Love, so when I found out that Ms. Roberts would be playing the part of Elizabeth Gilbert in the movie based on the book, I was elated. Then, the headlines hit that the crew had taken over a Hindu temple in Mirzapur Village, just south of New Delhi in India during the Holy Festival of Navaratri and were refusing to allow devotees to enter. For a brief moment, I was torn and shocked.
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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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