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You can’t wreck your body if you’re practicing Yoga!
by Anna Sheinman on Feb 6, 2012
You can't wreck your body if you're practicing Yoga!122 views
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Put That Down! We Can’t Afford It.
by Hilary Lindsay on Feb 3, 2012
I have been complicit by ignorance. Things often have a cost we didn’t suspect. We cannot be aware of everything. This is the cost of living. To be aware of every transgression and to make it a business to fight every transgression is a full time and sorrowful job.149 views
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American mentality blocks ancient intentions of yoga. ~ Caroline Young
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 27, 2012
“Is this what yoga has to be like now for us –– for Americans? Has our intense, ‘Go-Go-Go’ over-achieving attitude overflowed into an ancient Indian practice intended to release the ego and calm our minds?”880 views
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How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body. Get Ready for a Cry or a Good Laugh. ~ Ramanjit Garewal
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 24, 2012
A review on the New York Times article: How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body by one yogi in Mumbai India.1,591 views
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Can Yoga Wreck Your Life? ~Lisa Wells.
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 22, 2012
If we can learn to practice nonviolence, nongrasping, contentment and passion in the yoga studio, we can learn to practice nonviolence, nongrasping, contentment and passion in the rest of our lives; if we can learn to slow down and value the subtleness of the body, we can learn to slow down and value the subtleness of the moment; if we can place more value on a strong supple foundation than on a flashy exterior, then we can make better choices as individuals and as a nation296 views
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How Yoga Can Save Your Body. ~ Kevan Gale
by elephantjournal.com on Jan 17, 2012
After being a competitive athlete for so many years, I yearned for something that would keep my body and mind engaged. Once I established a consistent practice, it didn’t take long for me to realize the endless amounts of opportunity that yoga could provide in the physical and mental arenas. Before yoga, my body wasn’t open, I had very little upper body strength and my balance was less than solid. But through my practice, I quickly gained strength, flexibility, balance, and most importantly, a new sense of mindfulness and patience that truly changed my life.2,670 views
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NY Times: “Yoga Can Wreck Your Health.” (Here Are 7 Ways To Avoid It)
by Ramesh Bjonnes on Jan 16, 2012
“Today many schools of yoga are just about pushing people,” Black said. “You can’t believe what’s going on — teachers jumping on people, pushing and pulling and saying, ‘You should be able to do this by now.’ It has to do with their egos.”5,848 views
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Haven’t heard enough yet? Leslie Kaminoff on the NYT!
by Hannah Siegle on Jan 14, 2012
Another take on the article "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body."581 views
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Iyengar & Yoga Journal Respond to New York Times.
by Braja Sorensen on Jan 14, 2012
All yoga teachers are not equal. Nor are students. Choose carefully. And if you don't? Fine: just don't blame it on the yoga....2,365 views
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Yoga Wrecked My Hash Habit.
by Daniel Simpson on Jan 13, 2012
My first encounter with yoga was in India, but we weren't performing postures on a mat. I was sitting round a fire smoking dope with dreadlocked sadhus.758 views
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How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body? A Response.
by Hannah Siegle on Jan 7, 2012
Yoga does have enormous potential to cause injury and it frightens me at times to see students put their trust in teachers who have little or no training especially in areas such as anatomy, assisting, and sequencing.1,337 views
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The Dalai Lama doesn’t want the Keystone XL Pipeline to be built, and neither do I.
by Sunita Pillay on Oct 19, 2011
The president is set to make a decision on the pipeline by the end of this year. Here are three things that every American should know about it.1,281 views
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Refusing to be boxed in!
by Nadine McNeil on Jun 17, 2011
...why do we have this incessant need to place ourselves and others within the confines of a box? What does outrage me is when systems that are intended to educate and enlighten, by virtue of their actions instead perpetuate such lines of exclusion and divide.241 views
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Trash-Talk: ChicoBag vs. Plastic Bag Manufacturers
by elephantjournal.com on Jun 13, 2011
ChicoBag is being sued by three major plastic bag manufacturers...518 views
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Reconsidering the killing of Osama Bin Laden. ~ David Telfer McConaghay
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
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Could The New York Times go out of business? Movie:
by Waylon Lewis on May 2, 2011
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Support Japan: An Invitation to Karma Yoga. ~ Joanne O.S. Kelly
by elephantjournal.com on May 2, 2011
Project Surya invites you to be a part of an international Karma Yoga event: 108 sun salutations dedicated to the victims of the Japan disasters, May 6th 2011.288 views
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NYT: If you’re not sleeping 8 hours, you’re screwed. ~ Harris Mercer
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 20, 2011
Here's a cheap, not-at-all-easy high: skip two hours of sleep a night for two weeks. It's "the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk."1,249 views
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Before & After Pictures of Japan’s Coast.
by Tamara Kerner on Mar 17, 2011
This is the only hard to watch thing I am posting here. Use the blue slider in the middle to see the before and after pictures of Japan. I post this because maybe we can all wake up now and realize that what we've been doing to our world matters.320 views
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Yoga Incorporated? ~Deanna Lee Meiresonne
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 7, 2011
If anything, the philosophies behind yoga and the love it cultivates invites us to challenge what yoga means to us personally and wher...295 views
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The Yoga of Shoes. ~April Arotin
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 3, 2011
Yoga does not belong to anyone. It never will...431 views
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Elizabeth Downey, Joshua Silberstein ft. in Sunday New York Times’ Weddings & Celebrations.
by Waylon Lewis on Aug 3, 2010
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The New York Times’ Yoga Backlash. ~ via “it’s all yoga, baby”!
by Roseanne Harvey on Aug 2, 2010
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YogaDork featured in New York Times! Superheroine identity revealed!
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 28, 2010
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Moral of the Story: 9/11, Katrina, + the BP Oil Spill.
by Waylon Lewis on Jun 6, 2010
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Got the Environmentalist Relationship Blues?
by Nadia Ballas-Ruta on Jan 20, 2010
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Dr. Shirin Ebadi comes to Naropa University this weekend. Videos.
by Michael Levin on Sep 28, 2009
It's thrilling to hear that Nobel laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi will be speaking at Naropa University. Coincidentally, Harvard University just announced that their hugely popular class, Justice , led by Michael Sandel, will now be available online. So, what will be discussed?214 views
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Obama’s speech to Children: is there a place in American Politics for Bipartisan respect for our President?
by elephantjournal.com on Sep 7, 2009
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Humanure?
by Michael Levin on Apr 21, 2009
Do you love bikes? I do. I bicycle commute whenever possible. And, I ride bikes just for fun. Niles runs Recycled Cycles in Gainesville, FL. He told me I'd probably like reading about bikes at the Rivendell website when he saw my old Dawes Galaxy bike I've had since college. I was browsing the Rivendell website today and noticed that today is the last day that the Rivendell folks will match funds you donate to SOIL with credit at their bike store. Here's the background: SOIL is an organization that helps Haitians by converting human waste into compost.122 views
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Costa Rica: how an entire country went green. [Thomas Friedman, New York Times, Eco Tourism, Enlightened Government]
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 10, 2009
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New York Times on the closing of an Independent Bookstore. Does Local Matter?
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 23, 2009
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Boulder, Colorado in the New York Times again. First city to introduce a Carbon Tax struggles to meet Kyoto targets.
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 12, 2009
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Pema Chodron is New Age BS. Meditation makes you less you. Judith Warner knows what she’s talking about when it comes to Buddhist meditation.
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 7, 2009
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love. A Best-selling author’s advice to writers…and those wanting to experience pleasure & devotion. [Top 4 Videos]
by Waylon Lewis on Feb 14, 2009
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The Lipstick Index: a Real or Imaginary Indicator of Economic Times? Plus Natural, Affordable Picks.
by Lindsey Wolf on Jan 4, 2009
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Controversial Planned Plastic Bag Fee in New York City.
by Lindsey Wolf on Nov 10, 2008
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PHOTO SLIDESHOW: Green Energy Innovation… Around the World in the Solar Taxi!
by Rusty Ralston on Sep 9, 2008
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Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging, a Contemplative Art or Meditation-in-Action.
by Waylon Lewis on Sep 6, 2008
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Article of the Week: McCain is no (Teddy) Roosevelt.
by Waylon Lewis on Aug 19, 2008
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Mao, Stalin, Hitler: they’re back in style. [NYT]
by Waylon Lewis on Aug 16, 2008
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Nicholas D. Kristof’s Plan for a Freeish Tibet Actually Makes Sense.
by Waylon Lewis on Aug 8, 2008
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Generation E? New York Times says so—so get on the Big Green Bus.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 28, 2008
…420 views
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Batman’s Dark Night: We’re not the only ones to make lotsa tpyos.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 24, 2008
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NY Times video: What’s Green as a Prius, & cool as a designer car?
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 11, 2008
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