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These words stenciled on the back steps of the Curative Yoga studio in Pasadena: Increase energy, Improve concentration and Inner Peace foretell a likely future for yogis who enter this vortex of involution. Inside, the Vastu (Vedic feng shui) is working overtime in 4,000 square feet of devotion, conspicuously optimized for bliss. There is nothing [...]
“We’ve moved!!!” says Liberation Yoga Co-Owner Christine Burke. It is not an easy thing for a yoga studio to do, but Liberation Yoga has changed locations after 15 years. And successfully. Creating Community on La Brea in LA For 15 years, Liberation has lived in the heart of LA on La Brea. They’re still on [...]
Give Gifts with Purpose for Practice Any time of year can be the season for gifting your favorite yoga practitioner their next best prop or support for their practice. Or any time of the year can be the perfect season to make your surroundings, your personal space more uplifting. Any time of the year [...]
Natracare Ups their Environmental Commitment with 1% for the Planet Our home is far more than just a place where we sleep. It is the place where we live, play, work, and connect. Our home is the ecosystem of our community. Far more than our individual house, our collective home is the planet itself. How [...]
September 25-30, Bhakti Fest Celebrates in 29 Palms, California Bhakti Fest is the only festival of its kind that celebrates the devotional path with roots in Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan, and meditation. This festival embraces ancient and modern sacred wisdom and traditional and non-traditional spiritual practices. This year has been one for change, including Bhakti Fest’s [...]
Photo of Maty Ezraty Teaching by James Brown Maty Ezraty, Guardian Angel of Yoga Maty Ezraty was a treasure and an angel too soon departed. For those of us fortunate enough to have walked the path of yoga alongside her. we perhaps we can say that she communed with us and perceived the [...]
Maty Ezraty teaching. Courtesy of Sarah Ezrin When I decided to take the YogaWorks teacher training in 2008, I had no idea the lineage I was entering. My trainers spoke of their teacher Maty Ezraty with such reverence, I knew that I had stumbled into something special. I started studying Ashtanga yoga every single [...]
Addressing the tragedies of rape and suicide among young girls in West Bengal, India In the past twelve years, Yoga Gives Back has shared numerous uplifting stories of transformation. Thanks to our growing global yoga community’s support, Yoga Gives Back has helped to empower more than 1,300 underserved women and children with micro-loan programs [...]
Photo of Shanti Hot Yoga by Hubert Cheng (IG @hubertsphotoarcade) Spa-Like Wellness in Culver City As soon as you walk into Shanti Hot Yoga, there’s a sense of peace as the Ayurvedic inspired design immediately takes you out of the city and into a place centered around the five elements of nature. This [...]
Maty Ezraty photographed by James Wvinner Maty Ezraty: Honoring a Teacher and Leader How do you sum up a life? How do you put into words the amount of love so many felt for one woman? How do you convey the luminosity of a light that shone so brightly it radiated across the [...]