Cancer Support Community, Los Angeles celebrates the Benjamin Center Awards Leaders At their annual Gilda Award Gala, the innovative Cancer Support Community (CSC) Benjamin Center honored Kimberly Fowler and Sherri Rosen from YAS Fitness Center as well as psychosocial cancer researcher Dr. Mitch Golant and comedian, writer, and cancer survivor Tig Notaro. The nonprofit CSC Benjamin [...]
The National Museum of Animals & Society Promotes a Greater Vision of a Planet in which all its Inhabitants are Inherently Valued. Every social movement has a museum dedicated, or partially dedicated to its cause, such as civil rights and labor. One of today’s great humanitarian movements is animal protection and the museum supporting this [...]
Wanderlust 108 - Los Angeles hosted the world's first mindful triathlon including a 5K, large scale yoga class and guided meditation on the beaches of Santa Monica. Running shoes – check. Yoga mat – check. Sunscreen, reusable water bottle, and bike lock – check, check. I quickly scanned this small list through my mind as [...]
Yoga Is Conference gathers yoga and meditation teachers for the largest online yoga conference of its kind. Suzanne Bryant, Creator and Host of Yoga Is, and Elana Maggal, conference co-producer, talk with Felicia Tomasko. Q&A with Suzanne Bryant, Creator and Host of Yoga Is Felicia: Your film and this conference are both named Yoga Is. [...]
Rivers of Power: Meditation with the Radiance Sutras by Dr. Lorin Roche It’s a hot afternoon in the desert, at Bhaktifest in Joshua Tree, and my energies are starting to fade. The chanting has been going on around the clock for days and I feel saturated. What sounds good right now is to go jump in [...]
One teacher’s experience as a student in a kids yoga teacher training by Melissa Brooke Soltman “If it’s good for the kids, it’s good for humanity,” declared our energetic, fearless facilitator, Cayetana Rodenas, at the Rainbow Kids Yoga three-day Yoga for Kids and Families Teacher Training in San Diego. Senior Trainer Rodenas steered 30 eager [...]
Yoga Therapy: The Continuum of Embodiment What does it mean to be embodied? And doesn’t yoga already take care of that? When we take a closer look, the answer might surprise us. Think of embodiment on a continuum. On one end we have exteroception, in the middle proprioception, and on the far end interoception. Each of [...]
Bizzie Gold: A leap of faith inspires an empowered tribe BUTI Yoga “The cure to something hidden or kept secret,” is the translation of the Marathi word “Buti.” This is the name dynamic trainer, fitness maven, and mother of two Bizzie Gold has given to her creative brainchild, Buti Yoga, the invigorating style she and her [...]
Upcoming 2015 Retreats: hiking retreats in Ecuador, shamanic retreats in Peru, and yoga retreats in Yosemite Valley Compiled by Tiffany Palazzini Casa Verde Raw Yoga Hiking Retreat, Ecuador CASA VERDE RAW YOGA HIKING RETREAT CASA VERDE, ECUADOR. ONGOING RETREATS WENDYGREENYOGA.COM Travel to a personalized seven-night retreat to heal with Ashtanga Yoga, delicious [...]
Build a stronger and leaner body with Postpartum Pilates The female body is miraculous and ever-changing. The pre-pregnancy body is often the body that we are attached to; we have that body for many years and it feels comfortable and familiar. The pregnant body is a wild and wonderful adventure into daily changes of shape, size, [...]