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Number 111August 2010 |
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Best selling |
These are our bestselling titles over the last month: |
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SacredOms.com is our brand new website shop, providing you with a collection of sacred Om symbols to adorn your body and abode. |
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| From the Editor | |
| We all have experienced suffering in our lives, and most likely we encounter some form of suffering on a daily or weekly basis. Suffering in Sanskrit is called dukkha, and the yogis have learned to see dukkha as an invitation to look inwards to uncover the patterns, thoughts and conditioning that create unhappiness in our lives. When we shine the light of our awareness on these dark places they can begin to transform and to loose their power. Suppressing and resisting dukkha only makes it grow stronger and lengthens our suffering. Practicing contentment and equanimity with dukkha takes away its power over us and allows its opposite energy, sukkha (happiness/ease), to arise and be experienced.
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Namaste, |
Timothy Burgin Founder & Executive Director YogaBasics.com |
| 18th Scholarship Awarded |
| The YogaBasics.com's yoga teacher training scholarship has been awarded to Amelia Edelman. Our next scholarship will be awarded in July 2011. View complete details on our Yoga Scholarship page. |
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| Summer Yoga Sequence |
| Summer is the time of fiery energy, excitement, and heartfelt passion and love. Summertime is also said to awaken our inner magician / shaman. This archetype heals our body-mind-spirit, connects us to the otherworld, and cultivates awareness of higher states of consciousness. The magician / shaman also embodies the energy of transformation and change: creating magic and miracles out of the ordinary life stuff around us. In Traditional Chinese Medicine summer is the time when the fire element is dominant and the energy in the heart and small intestine channels becomes the strongest. During warm summer days it is easy for the fire element to move into disharmony creating anxiety, nervousness, heartburn and insomnia. Excess fire energy can be balanced through calming and soothing forward bends, heart opening back bends, and cooling pranayma. Heart opening back bends will also strengthen the heart’s ability to create and express joy, love and compassion. Use this 39-step yoga sequence to awaken and balance the energies of summer and to reach to your highest potential in the warmth of the summer sun. |
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| YogaBasics Giveaway Month! |
| Our two sister companies are having giveaway contests on Facebook to win a t-shirt and a mala. To enter visit the Facebook contest pages for JapaMalaBeads and YogaBasicsRetreats, read the rules and leave your comment!
On YogaBasics.com we have 4 copies of Donna DeLory’s Sactuary CD to giveaway too! To enter the CD giveaway contest, simply leave a comment to this post and we will randomly select 4 comment authors on August 20th. |
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| Are Yogis Getting Drunk Off of Kombucha? |
| Kombucha is a popular beverage for thousands of yogis and recently the drink has been removed from the shelves of many (but not all) stores due to elevated alcohol content. The legal level for products not containing a warning label is 0.5%, and according to Whole Foods Market who was the first retailer to test the products, the levels is measuring up to 0.7% on the shelf. |
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| Can Commercialized Yoga be Authentic? |
| John Friend is not stranger to the spotlight. The founder and force behind Anusara yoga has been drawing crowds all across the globe as he teaches and promotes his own style of yoga. In an article in New York Times Magazine last week, his unique approach was brought to task, and he and his community have responded in kind. The article has sparked the question in the yoga world: Can commercialized yoga be authentic? |
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| Teaching Yoga by Mark Stephens |
 Teaching Yoga is a wonderful addition to the growing collection of books being created for yoga teachers. And while this book is specifically targeted towards yoga instructors, a lot of the information is also be applicable for advanced yoga students (especially students who might be thinking of becoming teachers). At 432 pages long, the book covers a wide spectrum of detailed information. |
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