About: Carol Horton
Posts by Carol Horton:
“Making Music with Breath & Body”: An Interview with Photographer Sarit Z. Rogers.by Carol Horton on Jan 23, 2013 Yoga, photography, and the body: an interview with photographer Sarit Z. Rogers. 645 views |
Rebel Yoga: An Interview with Hilary Lindsay.by Carol Horton on Dec 12, 2012 Yoga teacher and writer Hilary Lindsay reflects on stepping outside of the box, following the path less traveled, ruminations of waking sleep, Einstein and Ann Coulter, why it’s never “just business,” and more. 654 views |
Marketing Yoga Without a Hot Barbie Body: Challenges & Opportunities.by Carol Horton on Dec 12, 2012 Can you successfully market yoga without beautiful bendy babe photos? Part of the “21st Century Yoga” online book club series. 1,047 views |
Countercultural Yoga & the “Body Beautiful.”by Carol Horton on Nov 19, 2012 How does the yoga community replicate the sexism and power imbalances of the dominant culture? What is lost, and gained, as the practice becomes increasingly mainstreamed? 994 views |
Mindfully Connecting Yoga & Politics: Michael Stone on the Occupy Movement & the Power of Imagination.by Carol Horton on Oct 22, 2012 Michael Stone on yoga, the Occupy movement and political imagination (“21st Century Yoga” essay and podcast). 344 views |
Introducing 21st Century Yoga: From Blogging to Book & Back Again.by Carol Horton on Oct 18, 2012 Rooted in social media, the book 21st Century Yoga re-enters the blogosphere ISO a new cycle of creative discussion. 547 views |
Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: A Seriously Funny Yoga Memoir.by Carol Horton on Oct 11, 2012 Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi is not only funny and entertaining—it communicates a deeper experience of yoga as well. 478 views |
21st Century Yoga Online Book Club.by Carol Horton on Oct 10, 2012 Join our virtual book club to discuss “21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice,” edited by Carol Horton and Roseanne Harvey. 1,222 views |
Why I Loved the Being Yoga Conference.by Carol Horton on Aug 25, 2012 A review of the 2012 Being Yoga conference at the Omega Institute. 634 views |
The Art of Yoga & the Sacred Feminine.by Carol Horton on Aug 1, 2012 Mary Lynn Fitton, founder of the Art of Yoga Project, on gender-responsiveness, the sacred feminine, and teaching yoga to at-risk and exploited teen girls. 1,046 views |
“Yoga for Weight Loss: Why Not?” (A Rebuttal to Sadie Nardini)by Carol Horton on Jul 18, 2012 The cultural downside to promoting yoga for weight loss: A response to Sadie Nardini’s “Yoga for Weight Loss – Why Not?” 3,133 views |
Roots of Yoga: A Sourcebook from the Indian Traditions.by Carol Horton on Jul 11, 2012 Is yoga as we know it in North America today really less than 100 years old? Mark Singleton, author of Yoga Body, and his friend and colleague, yoga scholar Jim Mallinson, discuss their new project, Roots of Yoga. 1,585 views |
Profile of a Yoga Gangster.by Carol Horton on Jun 14, 2012 Terri Cooper, Founder of Yoga Gangsters, shares her journey from depression and drug addiction to yoga teacher, studio owner, and founder of Yoga Gangsters, a nonprofit empowering at-risk youth through the practice of yoga in Miami. 2,207 views |
Yoga Beyond Asana: Launching a Mindfulness Revolution at the Yoga Service Council Conference.by Carol Horton on May 23, 2012 “The primary purpose of the Yoga Service Council Conference was to forge connections among practitioners committed to bringing yoga to underserved populations including abused women, prisoners, at-risk children and youth, veterans, cancer patients, and the homeless. Beyond these very pragmatic ends, however, was a more ambitious vision: one of harnessing yoga to a mindfulness revolution capable of transforming our dysfunctional society.” 855 views |
Wet, Hot, Wild & Surprisingly Deep: An Interview with Shyam Dodgeby Carol Horton on Dec 29, 2011 The surprising brilliance of a stupid sounding book, “Wet Hot & Wild American Yogi.” 1,783 views |
Shopping Right (Wing): Lululemon’s Political Values.by Carol Horton on Nov 20, 2011 Lululemon’s new shopping bags affirm a right-wing political agenda. 11,397 views |
Why Your Intellect is (or Can Be!) an Integral Part of Yoga.by Carol Horton on Nov 16, 2011 Yoga means integrating mind and heart – not shutting one down in favor of the other. 444 views |
crazy sexy goofy ninja dancing in 1970s suburban time capsule.by Carol Horton on Oct 9, 2011 The title says it all. 287 views |
Teaching Yoga in Jail: Bittersweet Magic Behind the Barbed Wire Fence.by Carol Horton on Oct 1, 2011 Reflections on my first day teaching yoga in jail. 1,674 views |
 Yoga & the Commodification of the True Self.by Carol Horton on Sep 12, 2011 Yoga today is riddled by a deep contradiction: While it really can connect you to your “true self,” it’s becoming “branded” as a way of creating a seemingly fabulous, but ultimately false pseudo-self. 2,997 views |
Why Yoga Blogging Matters.by Carol Horton on Jun 27, 2011 Why are you here? I don’t mean ontologically, metaphysically, or existentially – although we can get to that, too. I mean literally, right here right now – on your desktop, laptop, iPad, SmartPhone, or whatever you’re on – what moved you to click and come to this virtual reading-and-meeting space? Now please note that I [...] 2,806 views |
What’s Too Woo? A New Take on New Age Flakiness.by Carol Horton on Jun 14, 2011 While waiting to see my chiropractor the other day, I happened into a brief conversation that got me thinking about how much my perspective on what I used to flat-out dismiss as flaky, woo-woo New Age-y nonsense has shifted since I really got into yoga. It’s been an interesting ride. I was sitting in my [...] 1,513 views |
The Beautiful Babe & the Fierce Guru.by Carol Horton on May 26, 2011 Contemporary Icons of Yoga Culture. Two iconic images haunt the collective unconscious of American yoga. They’re not real. But they are powerful pop cultural archetypes. Let’s call them the Beautiful Babe and the Fierce Guru. The Beautiful Babe She’s all of your favorite images from glossy magazine covers rolled up into one delectable package. She [...] 1,540 views |
Profiting off Hate is NOT Yoga: Updated.by Carol Horton on May 4, 2011 The original title of this post was: “Profiting off Hate is not Yoga: Call to Protest Gaiam Mats Peddling Anti-Muslim Xenophobia.” But now that Gaiam posted this statement on their site and elsewhere on the web, and pulled their mats from Cafe Press, I no longer want to have a post out there calling for [...] 1,273 views |
Yoga in an Age of Anxiety: Sowing Seeds of Transformative Possibility and Magic.by Carol Horton on Apr 14, 2011 To live in the U.S. today is to live in a culture that’s soaked in anxiety to the point of saturation. What with rampant unemployment, debt, economic instability, social dysfunction, and trash culture, not to mention war, global warming, and the threat of terrorism, millions of Americans have become used to slogging through what’s come [...] 688 views |
Thinking (& Dreaming) Yoga: Integrating Left & Right Brains to Change the World.by Carol Horton on Mar 30, 2011 Back when I first stated taking yoga classes, I was preoccupied with whether I could meet the concrete physical challenges they presented. Coming in feeling proud that I could touch my toes (having long considered this a note-worthy feat of flexibility), I’d experience some angst mixed with the thrill of a newly ambitious goal when [...] 1,787 views |
Yoga Teacher on a Pedestal: Psychological Conundrums of the Teacher-Student Relationship.by Carol Horton on Feb 22, 2011 A recent Newsweek article, “Bow Down to the Yoga Teacher,” slammed yoga teachers as narcissistic posers and students as co-dependent enablers: In America, yoga has become a mainstream and marketable cult . . . and its teachers are, in a sense, performers. That’s why the narcissistically inclined can be drawn to the job . . [...] 8,027 views |
Rock & Roll Yogaby Carol Horton on Jan 27, 2011 Note: An earlier version of this post was published on Think Body Electric. If you’re up for it, please click on the Velvet Underground link below and listen while you read. I was in some store the other day and this old Velvet Underground song came on the radio: Jeannie said when she was just [...] 710 views |
American Yoga 2011: New Possibilities for a New Decade.by Carol Horton on Jan 18, 2011 I’m not one to make predictions on how American yoga might develop during this newly inaugurated second decade of the 21st century. But if I had my druthers, ten years from now I’ll be able to look back and say that 2010 marked the birth of a new era of self-reflection and cultural consciousness in [...] 1,143 views |
Cultural Pathologies of the Body: When Porn Stars are Post-Feminist Icons, Yoga Must Embody Rebellion.by Carol Horton on Jan 3, 2011 Well, you know, when you’ve got some spare time and are poking around on the Net, one thing leads to another. This post is a product of that process, clicking on links on the Web (and in my mind) connecting Buddhism, “post-postmodernism,” feminism, porn, and – ultimately – yoga. OK, so here goes. Let’s start [...] 554 views |
The Oprah-fication of Patanjali: Culturally Homogenizing the Yoga Sutra.by Carol Horton on Nov 16, 2010 If you’re involved with yoga, sooner or later (depending on what method you’re doing) you’ll encounter the Yoga Sutra (YS). Written by the mysterious Patanjali way back around 250 B.C.E., this cryptic collection of 195 short statements (“sutras” or aphorisms), is by far the closest thing to a common sacred text that we’ve got in [...] 2,278 views |
Yoga as Postmodern Shamanism: Reading Yoga 2.0.by Carol Horton on Oct 27, 2010 When I first stumbled on Yoga 2.0, I glanced at it briefly and dismissed it as wacko. But when I detached from my everyday busy-ness enough to really read it, I quickly started to believe it was brilliant. Moving onward, I got annoyed, and once again dismissed it, this time as overly romantic. But then [...] 543 views |
Yoga, Spirituality & the Body: Walt Whitman & American Tantra.by Carol Horton on Oct 19, 2010 Although the method of yoga I practice never uses the term “Tantra,” I’ve long… 2,105 views |
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