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A yoga student named Lauren Cahn has posted a piece on the Huffington Post which has been receiving some attention from the yoga community.  Titled “Five Words That Do Not Belong in Yoga”, the piece is basically a lengthy diatribe...
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This past Sunday evening, Santa Barbara yoga instructors Steve Dwelley and Michele Nichols hosted a gathering to honor the life of their teacher, Ashtanga founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (or “Guruji“, as he was more affectionately known). The event took...
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Is uddiyana bandha really a wise tool for a healthy back? For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, uddiyana bandha is an exercise in which yoga practitioners actively draw in their lower abdomens.  The practice is commonly...
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It’s time again for your round-up of pertinent news items which may or may not have made it across your desk over the past few weeks!  Here we go… 1) From the New York Times: “The Self-Employed Depression” by Emily...
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By now, numerous Sri K. Pattabhi Jois obituaries have been published by media outlets large and small.  We’ve pointed out a few that we found especially noteworthy here on our blog.  Today, however, we’re excited about one more Guruji obituary:...
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It’s technically an obituary, but this great Economist article is more like an entertaining profile piece with witty observations on the yoga world peppered throughout.  Take, for example, this this well-written opening segment (we had to quote the whole thing...
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There are some great images from Guruji’s memorial in Mysore, India on this Flickr photostream.  (Thanks for posting this link, Elephantbeans!)  There are quite a few images (and a couple of videos) included here, and we found it helpful to...
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Today is the official memorial ceremony for Guruji (the affectionate name for Ashtanga Yoga founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) in his hometown of Mysore, India. We are thinking of him, his family, and all of his devoted students who travelled...
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We’re calling it. Today, May 21, 2009, yoga reached its tipping point.  (‘Tipping point’ definition: “when something previously unique becomes common”.)  In today’s New York Times, the largest and most authoritative metropolitan newspaper in the U.S., there are not only...
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