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Today, The New York Times City Room blog posted that Bryn Chrisman, a vinyasa flow yoga teacher in New York City, will be responding to readers’ questions “about her path to yoga, her current job, her practice, kirtan and other matters of interest.” I think anything like this that gives yoga teachers exposure and lets them explain their story is great. But when I scrolled down to look at the questions that were asked I was a little surprised to see questions seeking answers to serious medical questions (how to lower high blood pressure?), spiritual guidance, and how much meditation practice is required to be “be a good yoga practitioner.” (Check the City Room blog again on Wednesday to see her answers to some of these questions.) I’m sure Ms. Chrisman is very knowledgeable–but surely she doesn’t have the answers to all of those questions! Who does!?

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Ask a Yoga Teacher

This weekend, there is no reason not to get your asana to a yoga class! Saturday, January 23rd is Yoga Day USA , which means there will be lots of opportunities to practice yoga for free or at reduced prices.Yoga Day gives people new to the practice an incentive to give it a try, but we can all take advantage of a free class.

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It’s (Almost) Yoga Day! How Will You Celebrate?

Today, the BBC reported that inmates in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh will be released from 15 days early for every three months they spend practicing yoga. “The authorities say the lessons help to improve the prisoners’ self-control and reduce aggression,” according to the article.4,000 inmates are taking advantage of the program, and many of the prisoners go on to become yoga instructors after they are released. That sounds like a good deal to me

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More Yoga = Less Jail Time

The following clip, featuring yoga teacher Rainbeau Mars, recently aired on a San Francisco news station. Not only does it share yoga’s immunity boosting benefits with a wide audience, but it also shows that you can do yoga any time (even when you’re at work and wearing a tie!)

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Boost Your Immunity with Yoga

Kelly McGonigal, PhD, a yoga teacher, health psychologist at Stanford University, editor in chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy , once suffered from debilitating headaches that made her wonder what it would be like to live one day without pain. Now, as the author of the new book, Yoga for Pain Relief , McGonigal is sharing her tips for dealing with chronic pain through yoga and meditation.

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Yoga for Pain Relief

“The obligation to go to “the place which the Lord your God will choose” (Deut. 16:16)”"In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance.”"Journey to a shrine or other sacred place undertaken to gain divine aid, as an act of thanksgiving or penance, or to demonstrate devotion.”Five years ago the seeds of my teaching in Africa were planted when a

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The Yoga Journey Boutique”We only use clothing from North America, produced to be washed and worn for years. With regard to print quality, we use flex and flock leading technology and water-based ink. You will not wearing a low quality printed T-shirt!Wordans uses only trusted brands such as American Apparel, Hanes and Bella

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T-shirts to help you remember, moment to moment

photo ©Loba Landscapes, 2009An oldie but a goodie that I think is appropriate for this time of the year….Making Room for New GrowthWhenever I talk on mindfulness meditation (or mindfulness training as I call it now) I always throw out these questions: how many of you are working on automatic pilot? are you so comfortable that you have become numb to the present moment? “How much pruning do

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pruning out the deadwood

This is all that any of us really need.Merry ChristmasHappy Holidayspeaceshantiasalaam ‘alaykumMAY ALL BEINGS HAVE HAPPINESS AND THE CAUSES OF HAPPINESSMAY ALL BEINGS BE FREE FROM SUFFERING AND THE CAUSES OF SUFFERINGMAY ALL BEINGS NEVER BE PARTED FROM FREEDOM’S TRUE JOYMAY ALL BEINGS DWELL IN EQUANIMITY, FREE FROM ATTACHMENT AND AVERSIONThat is my wish for you.

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peace on earth

(originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/photos/macchick1/)I’m leaving the country for eight weeks in 15 days so I’ve been feeling a bit scattered, making my lists and checking them twice. I have to sit down soon and concentrate on writing my dharma talks for Africa — one is an introduction to mindfulness meditation and the other is “Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness and how they

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If your choice to be vegetarian or vegan has anything to do with the yogic principle of ahimsa , or non-harming, you probably think you’re doing less harm to living things and the environment by choosing to eat plants instead of animals. But how often do you consider the harm you’re doing to the plants–also living beings–when you eat your vegetables? “Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl,” writes Natalie Angier in a recent NYTimes article about the ways plants fight off their predators.

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Do Plants Have Feelings, Too?

Yoga Teachers Training Rishikesh India Patanjali International Yoga Foundation (PIYF) Dr Jitendra Das, Tapovan Luxmanjhula Rishikesh Himalaya India www.patanjaliyogafoundation.com www.yogatoday.ru piyft@yahoo.com Thebasic principal of Foundation is truth to the original source. Master follows the Ancient Yoga Style taken from Sanskrit books.

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Yoga Teachers Training Rishikesh India

Did you know that two-thirds of the 45 million blind people in the world are female, yet women receive less than half of eye care services?The Kilimanjaro Center for Community Ophthalmology in Moshi, Tanzania (KCCO), supported by the Seva Foundation, was to be the recipient of the money I was going to collect from each western participant in my Yoga Adventure in Africa in February. KCCO’s

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’tis the season for giving and karma yoga

Americans are taking a pick-and-choose approach to religion these days, according to a recent Pew Reseach Center study. The study found that “more Americans nearly six in 10 Americans from all religions mix their faith with New Age and Eastern beliefs, like astrology, reincarnation, and the spiritual – not just physical – benefits of yoga,” reported ABC news .

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Yoga has been proven to be an effective tool to enhance a weight loss plan. Even when the practice is gentle and doesn’t burn tons of calories, practitioners are less stressed and more mindful which contributes to reaching a healthy weight. The mind connection is what three yoga instructors and hypnotherapists were hoping to enhance when they combined yoga with hypnosis to create Hyp-Yoga .

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Yoga + Hypnosis = Weight Loss?

ancient stone carving of vrksasana at the UNESCO World Heritage Site,Mahabalipuram — more than 100 years oldphoto © 2005 Linda-SamaKeep those comments comin’ as you read the second installment of Svasti’s guest blogger post. I give my sincere heartfelt thanks to Svasti (my yoga sister in more ways than one) for taking on the challenge! By the way, one of my classes at the Krishnamacharya Yoga

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"I don’t know how old yoga is and neither do you" — part 2

Three Virginia yoga teachers took action Tuesday to stop the state’s efforts to regulate yoga teacher training programs. The teachers filed a federal lawsuit claiming that teaching yoga is a form of protected free speech, according to a recent Washington Post article. “Yoga is the study of the self through direct experience,” Suzanne Leitner-Wise, a plaintiff and president of U.S.

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The shooting at the army base at Fort Hood that resulted in 13 lives lost and 30 people wounded was a tragedy that saddened the nation. But in the last year, the leaders at the base have been experimenting with new ways–including yoga–to help soldiers deal with the stress and pressure that comes with their jobs

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Can Yoga Help Soldiers’ Mental Health?

Yes I know I promised to write a review of the talk I attended about whether American yoga is in crisis, but I think that topic is a very small part of a much bigger picture. So I will throw the question out there: what are we lacking that make people do this:James Arthur Ray’s Spiritual Warrior Event Kills 2I’ve never seen the movie The Secret so I have no opinion about Ray and what he puts

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is there an "American spiritualism" like "American yoga"?

Swami Ramdev, the Indian guru who claimed yoga could cure homosexuality , now suggests that the practice of pranayama (conscious breathing) can heal diseases such as Swine Flu, cancer, and AIDS, reported the Press Trust of India . Ramdev shared his ideas with thousands of yoga fans, who gathered in Toronto, and insisted that his teachings were based on science.”Yoga is the universal and scientific philosophy of self-realisation and healing. Our personal life should also be full of austerity and self-control and a complete sense of denunciation.” We know that yoga and pranayama have amazing healing benefits, but do you think that it can really heal or prevent H1N1, cancer, and/or AIDS

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Yoga for Swine Flu, Cancer, and AIDS?