In our Yoga Blog we will report on yoga news, trends and happenings throughout the world.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Is Yoga Demonic?
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While numerous reports have documented Christianity and yoga to prove uneasy bedfellows, a Seattle pastor has fanned the flames of debate by calling yoga “absolute paganism” that can lead to “demonism.” In a lengthy blog post claiming to summarize the history and traditions
of yoga, Mark Driscoll employs apologetics (reasoned arguments intended
to justify a religious doctrine) to rebut the tenets of yoga and
demonstrate “why it is, in fact, demonic.”
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Monday, October 31, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga for Illegal Immigrants
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The issue of illegal immigration is a tendentious one, generating deep cultural and ideological schisms with enormous economic and personal impact. Enter yoga classes for migrants hoping to cross the US-Mexican border; Jap Singh Khalsa in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila is offering once-weekly yoga classes to Central Americans at a migrant shelter in hopes it will facilitate coping “with the stress of their arduous and often dangerous trek.” Singh teaches the migrants how to manage the physical and emotional stress of the journey in his yoga classes.
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One of the beautiful things about yoga is that people of all abilities and health conditions are able to benefit from a regular, conscientious practice. Yoga instructor Matthew Sanford exemplifies this both in his practice and teaching. He leads his classes from a wheelchair, and several of his students come to class this way. Although his students come to yoga with different abilities than many yogis and yoginis, they leave class just as grateful and relaxed as anyone else.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Pants Ignite Controversy
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Yoga Pants: By turns celebrated and maligned, this sartorial novelty is not without its share of press—and controversy! Fashion aficionados mourn the trend as excessively laid back and sloppy, while devotees cite comfort and convenience as support for wearing them outside of yoga class. Most recently, an Ohio’s Loveland High School added to the fray, claiming yoga pants are “too revealing” to be worn by students.
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Monday, October 10, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga + Orgasm = Yogasm
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Women orgasming in yoga class; amidst recent headlines of bong-, wine-, and chocolate-toking yogis, to say nothing of the commonly-touted sexual benefits of westernized Tantra yoga, this may inspire yawns among the desensitized. Yet the spin of a recent ditty is worth noting, if for its rather unorthodox anecdote. A NYC woman breathing and employing root lock in lotus position “wasn’t prepared for what happened after her [toned, tattooed, sexy] instructor pressed his body against her back and synchronized his breath with hers, lifting her ribs as she inhaled, and pushing down on her thighs as she exhaled.” The result: a “tingling all over” yogasm (yoga orgasm).
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Monday, September 26, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Is Yoga Just for Relaxation?
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A recent article in UK’s Daily Mail claims that yoga’s benefits are limited to strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and balance. Several studies are cited suggesting that yoga, in comparison to cardiovascular (CV) exercise, fails to generate the “target heart rate” necessary to improve aerobic capacity and promote cardiovascular health, and lacks the adequate caloric expenditure for weight management and optimal health.
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Saturday, September 17, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga Helps with Diabetes
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Type 2 diabetes is an incurable disease caused by the body not being able to make or use insulin, which results in high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. A new study shows that gentle yoga may help diabetes patients stabilize their blood sugar levels, lose weight, and maybe even reduce the chance of secondary complications.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Amber Baker
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The Yoga Genome Project
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“Doctors can’t prescribe until yogi’s describe” is the motto of the newly announced Yoga Genome Project created by the Yoga Care Foundation (YCF). This ambitious research project is designed to help medical professionals decipher the many styles of yoga so they can effectively recommend its use as a therapeutic modality.
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Friday, September 09, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga Alliance Launches YA+
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The Yoga Alliance recently announced the launch of a companion organization: YA+. The benefits of the new program were touted in an email announcement sent out to current Yoga Alliance members. The intention of the program appears to be a response to community feedback and as an effort to make the Yoga Alliance more relevant in the ongoing debate about regulating yoga teacher training.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Asana Championships?
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The concept of yoga as a sport is a controversial one, with outspoken proponents of Bikram yoga pushing for yoga to be recognized at the level of the Olympic Games. The 2011 Illionois Yoga Asana Championships took place recently, with more than 100 participants given three minutes to demonstrate up to seven poses, “judged on strength, flexibility, expression, completion, control, grace, poise and the more ambiguous, ‘heart of the yogi.’”
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Reduces Smoking Cravings
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A recent study found that a single 30-minute session of hatha yoga reduced cravings to smoke among daily smokers. This may come as little surprise to yoga practitioners; anecdotally, many former smokers quit after starting the practice of yoga, and research suggests yoga practitioners are less likely to smoke than their non-yoga practicing peers.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Meditation Shown to Change Your Brain
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Meditation doesn’t just affect the way you feel, new studies show that it actually changes the way your brain processes information. In two recent studies, people with meditation practices not only reacted differently to stimulus than those without, their brains handled the input in entirely different ways.
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Monday, August 22, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Getting High Before Yoga Class
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In a region where marijuana is as common as the ubiquitous palm tree, LA-area yoga instructor Liz McDonald saw a market niche: baked yoga. Noticing that many of her private clients lit up before yoga class several years ago, McDonald decided to devote a class in her new studio to “4:20 Remedy Yoga” (4:20 is a euphemism for smoking marijuana).
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