Shedding Skin with MC Yogi

Reflections on Pilgrimage There was The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper, The Beastie Boys’ Ill Communication, and now there’s is Pilgrimage by MC Yogi. Reaching #1 on the iTunes World Music charts upon release, MC Yogi’s sophomore album dives deeper into self-inquiry, spirituality, and Slick Rick stylings guaranteed to get your non-bhakta brethren break-dancing to the beat. I had [...]

By |2016-06-25T21:10:56-07:00August 27th, 2012|Music|2 Comments

Rapping with MC Yogi

MC Yogi is a phenomenon. The next big thing in sacred chant, he’s a rap artist with profound social awareness (check out his songs about Obama and Gandhi) and has a penchant for Hip Hop Hinduism (ala Ganesh, Hanuman, Rama, Krishna and others). Born Nicholas Giacomini in California’s Bay Area, MC is a musical navigator [...]

By |2015-04-11T04:33:47-07:00August 8th, 2012|Music|0 Comments

Spread Out Your Mat For Room to Read

Join Room to Read’s Namaste India! Global Yoga Day June 16, 2012  By Jacki Ueng As we’re reading this article, we may either be taking for granted our ability to decipher the words on the page or feeling a sense of gratitude for the ability to communicate with the world in this way. Yet, while [...]

By |2015-04-11T04:42:22-07:00June 12th, 2012|Cause & Activism|0 Comments

Ayurveda Q & A

Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: I am pregnant and am having trouble figuring out which herbs [...]

By |2013-05-01T15:35:48-07:00June 7th, 2012|Ayurveda|0 Comments

Trevor Hall Gathers A Village

Songster Shows it Does Take a Village to Raise the Children of an Indian Ashram By Vanessa Harris Since the children are the future, the future is shining a little brighter in Allahabad, India, thanks to musician Trevor Hall and camp. Although responsible for many hit songs like “Brand New Day” from his latest album [...]

By |2015-04-11T04:48:26-07:00May 2nd, 2012|Cause & Activism|1 Comment

The Highest Pass

By Selah Michele They journeyed to the top of the world and found freedom of the heart. “The journey taken in The Highest Pass was really the metaphor for living the life we want to live every moment.” –Anand Mehotra Yogi and teacher Anand Mehotra had traveled the world but had not yet stood at the [...]

By |2015-04-11T04:49:19-07:00April 17th, 2012|Film|1 Comment

Ayurveda Q & A

Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: I have suffered the past couple years with acid reflux. I [...]

By |2015-04-11T04:50:57-07:00March 7th, 2012|Ayurveda|0 Comments

George Harrison: The Quiet Beatle was a Not-So-Quiet Yogi

In the 200 years that Eastern spiritual teachings have been filtering into American life, the disseminators have included great artists as well as gurus, scholars, and scientists. We have absorbed the principles of Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian traditions through the poems of T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats; the novels of Herman Hesse, Somerset Maugham [...]

By |2015-04-11T05:12:24-07:00December 8th, 2011|Music|1 Comment

Urban Roots: Documenting A Backyard Revolution On Film

Leila Connors and Frank Fitzpatrick discuss the movement toward urban farming and community building in Detroit. “Opening a Yoga studio is one of the most revolutionary acts you can engage in today,” says film producer Leila Connors. “The practice of Yoga,” she continues, “helps you develop independent thinking, even though you don’t realize the shift [...]

By |2015-04-11T05:27:57-07:00April 13th, 2011|Film|1 Comment
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