Calling All Dudes to Yoga

I love this piece 5 Reasons Why Dudes Should Do Yoga over at one of my favorite web sites -  Mindbodygreen.com

I won't spoil the piece and give you all 5 reasons here (4 and 5 aren't relatable to me, but then I'm not a dude).

But here is the opening :

I'm not your typical yoga person. In fact, I don't even come close to fitting the profile of a yoga person. First of all, I'm a dude. I'm tall (6'7" to be exact). Yes, is the answer to your next question: I played basketball. I played for four years in college at Columbia, in New York City. I also was president of my fraternity.

Please click over to read the rest.  Really.  Especially if you're a tall-ex-wall-street-trading-fraternity-boy-jock

Yoga Mats in Foreign Policy Magazine

Seriously.

No - seriously.

 It's a metaphor somewhat but also true.

 And a very good question.

"Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat"

Busted! Lifestyle Choices of a Yogi

Okay - this is so funny - and admittedly, probably only to yogis.

From one of my favorite yoga sites, Elephant Journal:

The 10 Things You'll Do Once You Start Yoga

I'm guilty of all of them.  All.  Of.  Them.

Does the Popularity of Yoga Cause Something to Be Lost?

Oh, I just love Gary Kraftsow.   He founded and runs the American Viniyoga Institute.  I have all of his books and did a full day of study with him years ago.  He really knows his stuff and is one of the top two yoga therapists in the country.  (Bo Forbes is the other).   If I could, I would be pursuing this course of study furiously.

The founder of Yoga Modern, David Sunshine, interviewed Gary Kraftsow on how yoga has expanded through the United States, what it's popularity means, and what is happening - and he specifically talks about the deeper, inward teachings of yoga.

It's a short video, but in my view he captures well what is really going on.  And I am most excited by the attention of the medical community on yoga's benefits, because yoga has so very much helped me medically.

here is the video:

Beautiful Water Scenic Video

a beautiful water video to calm your nerves, with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as the soundtrack.



The Water from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Ballet and Yoga - from 1952 film

This video is really fascinating.  The voice over most of all.

YOGA DANCING - British Pathe

I love the nexus of ballet and yoga, since that relationship changed the course of my life.

Yoga and Apple

In case you missed this Apple ad when it aired a few years ago......

How Yoga Affected Literary Figures of 20th Century

Vivekananda lived only to the age of 39, but his influence continues today. This essay also shows a convergence of yoga and literary figures of the 20th century including JD Salinger, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein and Somerset Maugham. So I follow in the footsteps of other writer/yogis..... How Yoga Won the West in today's Sunday New York Times.