Leeza Villagomez Travelled The World to Find Yoga Yoga Den is a fitting name for the family-style hub Leeza Villagomez has created in the Inland Empire, as it has the comfortable vibe of a family room where everyone looks forward to lounging, eating and playing. And, lounge, eat and play they do. Leeza is known [...]
Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy Oh, Those Aching Joints! How Yoga Helps People With Arthritis Feel Young Again “TODAY’S NOT SUCH A GREAT DAY.” That thought often resounds in the minds of people living with arthritis. Maybe the weather changed. Maybe they gardened a bit too much the day before. Regardless of the cause, participating in a [...]
BEFORE MY SUMMER, 2008, visit to Rancho La Puerto with Swami Veda Bharati, I was more than a little nervous about committing to a week of study and meditation. Fortunately, I sat on the bus ride to the ranch next to Praful Saklani, a busy New York executive and avid meditator who spent [...]
Yoga for Wellbeing: 3 Short Sequences for Restful Sleep, Greater Energy and Mental Clarity With Jason Crandell Yoga Journal, 2008 A yogi’s greatest challenge is often finding time to practice. Jason Crandell’s latest installment in his Yoga for Well-Being series – 3 Short Sequences for Restful Sleep, Greater Energy and Mental Clarity – [...]
Ahn's Anger Gail Silver Illustrated by Christine Krömer Plum Blossom Books, Parallax Press What does it mean to sit with anger and how can we teach a child to engage in this practice? This is the aim of Gail Silver’s new book Ahn’s Anger. Silver is the founder of Yoga Child in Philadelphia [...]
The Adventures And Misadventures of a Month of Storing Trash: The Story of LA YOGA and the Green Yoga Association’s Mindfulness Challenge Winner IT’S SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009, and today is a good day because it is the last day I will be keeping my trash. I’ve managed to stuff thirty days and thirty nights of [...]
A Family Photo Album Sometimes you're born into a family, sometimes you marry into one and sometimes you find your family in a room filled with sweaty headstanders. But whether you are bound by blood, love or belief, family means family photos. Usually the family comes first. But recently I discovered a part [...]
Teaching the Yoga of Respecting Nature Trees were some of my best friends when I was a kid,” Jen Jivani Futterman recalls. “I would come home from school and spend hours sitting up in the loquat trees in my backyard.” Jivani looks for ways to encourage the connection to nature she valued. She explains, “Right [...]
An Interview With Andrew Hahn, The Kirtan Rabbi Rabbi Andrew Hahn, known as the Kirtan Rabbi, has been facilitating Hebrew bhajan (sacred song) over the last several years. His goal is to create a cross-fertilization of song and wisdom by bringing Jewish teachings to the Yoga world even as he presents bhakti (devotion) to the [...]
Joshua Tree Music Festival May 15 - 17 Joshua Tree Music Festival has teamed with SPACESHARE, a noteworthy carpooling website, unifying summer festival-goers and offering them opportunities to meet new friends, reduce their carbon footprint and save money on gas. Performers include Holland’s “must-see live band,” Kraak & Smaak, as well as LA-based Underground Orchestra, [...]