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Top 10 Yoga Blogs of the Week.

by on Apr 3, 2013

yoga & healing heartbreak, yoga & emotions, men of yoga, india, yoga & addiction, building your yoga business, yoga & the blues, Darren Rhodes, bad girls of yoga




Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: On the Road: A Behind the Scenes Look at a Photo Shoot in Action with Yogini Liz Arch & Photographer Robert Sturman.

by on Mar 1, 2013

A photo speaks to your eyes. A video speaks to your mind. After a busy, stressful (the opposite of what a yoga conference should be) day at Tadasana Festival, Waylon, Robert, Liz and I traveled above and beyond the noisy, crowded city of LA, along the glistening coast, winding up canyon roads, to a dream [...]


Rare, Magical Footage Captured of a Liz Arch/Robert Sturman Shoot.

by on Feb 26, 2013

I hesitated at first, thinking it needed to be edited down to make it significantly shorter. But the 30 minutes of raw  footage is such an intimate view into one of the more magical shoots I have ever had. Included in this post, are nineteen finished pieces from the shoot. As I watched this video, [...]


The Avocado Manifesto. ~ Madison Canary

by on Feb 13, 2013

The fact that someone else’s journey could so abruptly and painfully bump into mine was humbling.
Here (or I guess there) was a person I have never met that just forever changed my day and life.


The Misadventures of a Wannabe Yogi. ~ Dawn Meysel

by on Feb 13, 2013

  Source: community.omtimes.com via Emily on Pinterest What was I thinking? Last year I made two decisions for 2013. The one was to write more. The other was to start yoga again. Good, stretching, challenging ideals. I’d done yoga before, but had a about a year’s break and I’m really a complete novice when it [...]


If I were a man, I wouldn’t read elephant.

by on Feb 12, 2013

10 Reasons I wouldn’t read elephant if I were a Man. Oh, wait: I am a man. I shave my face. I have a penis (I checked). I throw like a girl…with my left hand. I’m slow emotionally, but quick to wake up and apologize when I’ve blundered into a wall in the dark. 10 [...]


Glamour Shots? The Uglier Side Of Yoga. ~ Angela M. Diaz

by on Feb 3, 2013

We’ve all seen the influx of yoga pose photos flooding Instagram, Facebook, the pages of Yoga Journal, Pinterest. People perfectly posed on the beach, on urban structures, woods, snow falling in the background, balancing on each other perhaps. I admit it, I’m guilty of it too. I’ve got a few I used  for my bio [...]



Suzanne & the Black Panthers. ~ Sherri Rosen

by on Feb 1, 2013

I came to the Party with that background. I taught people how to read, fill out forms (welfare, social security). I would help them write letters to their sons in Vietnam, and be able to read information concerning them. Then we started the breakfast program. It was Huey’s idea that we needed to do more things in the community.


Breaking: Green Diva Radio to Interview Waylon Lewis this Thursday!

by on Jan 29, 2013

I generally love talking about green in everyday life as an expression of mindfulness, not uptightness–how to talk about it with loved ones and family, colleagues. ~ Waylon Lewis, elephant journal founder This Thursday, January 31st, Waylon will be talking green L-I-V-E with Megan McWilliams—a radio show you won’t want to miss. Side note: I [...]


Top 10 Yoga Blogs of the Week.

by on Jan 28, 2013

Intention Avalanche. The Girl The Hated Savasana. Yoga Teacher Cluetrain. 4 Easy Steps for Establishing Your Daily Yoga Practice and much, much more….



Best yoga video you’ve seen for a long time.

by on Jan 14, 2013

Meghan Currie‘s Yoga Videos: click here for more. Click here for more, more. My kind of yoga video is more about the present moment, about the heart, about our yearning to break through from being stuck and claustrophobic and to apologize and connect and be genuine and live and love and caress and…my kind of [...]


Teach Them Young. ~ Caitlin Marcoux

by on Jan 13, 2013

No doubt about it, parenting is challenging. I gave birth to Griffin at home, in table pose, on a well-worn yoga mat. We were in front of the fire, in the middle of the living room. The mat was green and helped hold my focus during Griffin’s lighting speed, two-hour delivery. You probably know which [...]


Who Is Yoga? ~ Madison Canary

by on Jan 8, 2013

Yoga has evolved and changed through time and space for millennium but you don’t have to wait for a million years to evolve! If you are willing, you can evolve today, right now.


People Are Beautiful. {images}

by on Jan 6, 2013

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” ~ Susan Sontag   Source: flickr.com via Anjali on Pinterest Source: flickr.com via Kathy on Pinterest Source: theyroaredvintage.tumblr.com via Alyssa on [...]




On Nudity & Pregnancy. ~ Briohny Smyth

by on Dec 31, 2012

The pregnant female body is nothing short of amazing. Showing our love for one another and our new addition coming soon was the best photo experience we’ve ever had because we were able to shed our clothes and reveal ourselves in our birthday suits.




How Kissing Girls Improved my Hetero Sex Life. ~ Lori Ann Lothian

by on Dec 12, 2012

Source: Uploaded by user via Ashlee on Pinterest The first time a woman kissed me, I was shocked at my response. My body said yes, to her lips on mine and her hand on my fully clothed breast. It was a late night, in the living room of a girlfriend I had known for ten [...]





Women, Listen to Your Lady Parts. {Video} ~ Lori Ann Lothian

by on Nov 28, 2012

Okay, so I don’t always listen to my vagina when she speaks. Sometimes even, she has to yell to get my attention. Like the time a guy I was dating decided something he’d seen on a porn movie would work on my delicate lady parts—I called his technique the vacuum suction move, delivered with enough [...]



The Freedom to Feel is Your Birthright & Something to Celebrate. ~ Vanissar Tarakali

by on Nov 26, 2012

Source: Uploaded by user via Vanessa on Pinterest Are some of your feelings—feelings you want to have—difficult to sustain? Most of us have one or more feelings or body sensations that we cannot seem to stay with, or even experience at all. These might include joy, self-appreciation, anger, fear, excitement or other emotions or sensations. [...]




The Orgasmic Life: “Being a Woman Today” Launches 5-Year Study on Female Orgasm. ~ Candice Holdorf

by on Nov 17, 2012

In a world of Cosmo BJ tips, porn sex ed and pre-pubescent pin-up girls, I often lament the dearth of quality articles, research and erotica from an empowered, mature feminine perspective. It seems like everywhere I turn, I’m hit with another piece on how my sex “just isn’t good enough” and if I am going [...]





My Yogic Love Affair. ~ Jennifer Donnell

by on Nov 4, 2012

I have a dirty secret about yoga. I used to hate it. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I liked the idea of it—the way those who made time for the practice became long and lean. Or, how the yogis I came into contact with had a peacefulness about them. Yet, what I didn’t like [...]


Behind the Face of Yoga for Cynics. ~ Mary King

by on Oct 30, 2012

Interview with Dr. Jay, creator of the popular blog, Yoga for Cynics. Mary: Hi Jay! Thanks for your interest in our interview series. To get started, I like to begin with something easy: Tell me a little bit about yourself! Jay: Today I was buying a cable for my internet connection and the guy selling [...]



Gabrielle Roth: The Most Badass Teacher of Our Time.

by on Oct 26, 2012

Gabrielle Roth was the most truthful, determined, vibrant, hilarious, seductively ferocious person I have ever encountered. She was so piercingly, honestly alive that it feels entirely strange to refer to her in the past tense.


“I’m Gonna Dance My Way to the Next Planet…” Tao Porchon-Lynch, 94 and Still Ballin.’ ~ Photographed by Robert Sturman

by on Oct 24, 2012

The beautiful Tao Porchon-Lynch touched  us deeply in the Central Park NYC Red Shoot, celebrating her induction into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest living yoga teacher in the world. Six months later, somewhere in the Connecticut countryside, I met with Tao again. This time, she brought her dance partner, Hayk [...]



Om Chemo: My Teacher’s Cancer Helps Me Let Go. ~ Audrey Mei

by on Oct 20, 2012

It has been a rickety emotional roller coaster with my teacher alone in the front seat. Back in the aughts, I was an aspiring yogini in San Francisco. It was a commitment I’d made to myself, but it came with a snag: my allergy to spiritual pretense. I was raised in an Asian Buddhist home, hence my skin [...]



Yoga Journal Estes: Rod Stryker and Sianna Sherman. ~ Travis Robinson

by on Oct 4, 2012

Our path in Tantric practice is to Shine! “The more radiant you become, the more the one source of radiance is drawn to you.” In other words, your shining attracts the Source of all shining, and “She walks with you the more you start being like Her.” Now one may ask how we get to [...]







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