June 29, 2011
Back in 1991, while living in New York City and working as a television journalist, Suzanne Bryant took a yoga class to help counteract the stress of her daily life. Nine years later, she had enrolled in the ISHTA teacher…
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Finger, Ashtanga Yoga, Ayurveda, Baron Baptiste, Bhakti Yoga, Christy Turlington Burns, Dharma Mittra, Kerala, Michael Franti, Neem Karoli Baba, Pattabhi Jois, Robert Thurman; Russell Simmons, Saraswati, Shiva Rae
June 29, 2011
How do you put your spiritual practice to use in the face of danger? This is the fundamental question behind Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets WIldfire at the Gates of Tassajara, written by former Yoga Journal senior editor Colleen Morton…
Posted in News | Tagged Colleen Morton Busch, Fire Monks
June 27, 2011
More than three months ago, a murder at a Bethesda, Maryland, Lululemon Athletica store rocked the local community and the yoga world. At first, a coworker of the slain victim, Jayna Murray, reported that the incident was the result of…
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bethesda, Lululemon, murder
June 26, 2011
Over the past three months, a bizarre story has unfolded involving a murder at a Bethesda, Maryland, Lululemon Athletica store. At first, a coworker of the slain victim, Jayna Murray, reported that masked gunmen came into the store for a…
Posted in News | Tagged Bethesda, Lululemon, murder
June 20, 2011
Summer’s here. This means extra time with kids, lazy days at the beach. Why not give them some books on the themes that yogis hold dear? We Are Like the Sky by Elisabeth Rose Wilds was inspired by the author’s…
Posted in Inspiration & Transformation | Tagged We Are Like the Sky
June 13, 2011
James Fox began teaching yoga to prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in California nine years ago, where he founded the Prison Yoga Project. Recently, he’s been traveling around the country training others how to teach in a prison setting….
Posted in Inspiration & Transformation | Tagged James Fox, Prison Yoga Project, San Quentin
June 8, 2011
Stories of corruption, tear gas, and police action don’t usually end up in Buzz. But this was the scene this weekend in New Delhi, as the popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev embarked on a hunger strike to end government…
Posted in News | Tagged Baba Ramdev, San Francisco Examiner
June 6, 2011
The blogs are buzzing about the identity of the father of January Jones’s baby. We don’t care about that. We just love it when we spy celebrities like the “Mad Men” star, who is featured in the upcoming X-Men movie,…
Posted in News | Tagged January Jones, Mad Men, prenatal yoga, X-Men
June 1, 2011
“For some yoga practitioners, the body is a sacred vessel that should not be tainted. For others, the skin represents a blank, movable canvas for tattoos displaying thoughts, texts and deities that inspire and inform their practice,” Emily S. Rueb…
Posted in News | Tagged David Life, Jivamukti, yoga tattoo