Yoga in America: In the Words of Some of its Most Ardent Teachers.
What is Yoga Really Like in America?
Yoga in America, published in early 2009, was a book ahead of its time. Long before the debate about what is and isn’t yoga heated up in the blogosphere, and all the narrow stereotypes that resulted, this book celebrated the actual wide diversity of Yoga in America, as told by passionate yoga teachers themselves.
There are 46 articles chosen out of over 500 submitted in an open competition, the brainstorm of publisher Deborah Bernstein. I had the honor and pleasure of co-editing the book with Deborah. This was the experience that led me a few months later to elephant journal and the development of elephant yoga, which follows in the same tradition of wide (some might say “wild”) diversity.
Today the entire book is available free online, and we have started publishing it article by article with illustrations and writer photos on elephant journal. Here is an ongoing index of those articles so far for easy reference:
The Downside to Down Dog ~ Kelly Grey
Hot Yoga in America ~ Peter Sklivas
Boiler Room Yoga ~ Richard Wall
The One & Only Reason I Sought Out Yoga ~Halli Bourne
Yoga Demystified: The Six Big Ideas ~ Bob Weisenberg
Firm Buttocks or Self-Realization? ~ Laura Sachs
Reflections: “Yoga in America” While Congress
Holds America Hostage ~Hilary Lindsay
Peace is but a Breath Away. {Poem} ~ Cynthia Overgaag
The Art & Science of Happiness ~ Gyandev McCord
You are Divine and Perfect ~ Karen Pierce
Yoga Is Whatever You Want To Make Of It ~ Adrienne Reed
My Dawn Musings ~ Bridget Boland
The Ancient Roots of Modern Yoga ~ Tony Criscuolo
I Am Never Doing Yoga Again. ~ Danielle Hope Hier
A Rose by Any Other Name: Indian Yoga & American Yoga ~ Nina Moliver
The Melting Pot of American Yoga ~ Hannah Schoen Caratti
The Ancient Wisdom of Kriya Yoga is Alive & Well in America ~ Camella Nair
The Path of Urban Mystic ~ Darren Main
Not Just a T-Shirt Slogan ~ Shana Meyerson
Denying, Buying, Trying, Applying:
The Four Stages of Getting into Yoga ~ Donna Brown
The following Yoga in America co-authors have also published on elephant, although their Yoga in America articles are not on elephant yet (Click to see their work. Let me know if I missed anyone):
Amy Nobles Dolan, Deborah Bernstein,
Kino MacGregor, Tracey L. Ulshafer
I love being able to share these writers with the elephant audience.
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The downside to down dog is one of my favorite pieces of yoga writing. Thanks for the reminder about this amazing work!
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