Teaching Yoga One on One DVD with Julie Carmen Years ago, a friend invited me to take a yoga class with Julie Carmen at Exhale in Venice since we were both yoga teachers and actors as well as mental health professionals. I went in not knowing what to expect, and left feeling both exhilarated and [...]
Book Review The Yoga Diaries: Stories of Transformation Through Yoga (Volume I) The Yoga Diaries: Stories of Transformation through Yoga is a comprehensive collection of powerful personal stories by yogis from all over this big blue ball we share. The richly varied personal stories are written in the writers’ own voices, allowing us to intimately [...]
Yoga, Meditation and Celebration Retreats and Festivals, February 2015 Sedona Yoga Festival Sedona, Arizona February 5 - 8 With the uplifting backdrop of a magnificent landscape, the Sedona Yoga Festival invites you to depend your practice in yoga, meditation, music, and energy work with more than 100 renowned teachers and performers including Saul David Raye, [...]
Krisna Khalsa takes the Shakti Sweat DVD Workout Challenge. Are you fierce? Are you strong? Are you awakened? According to celebrity trainer and Buti Yoga founder Bizzie Gold, the quickest path to feeling fierce, strong, and awake is by making sure your workouts are all of these things. This is the inspiration for Bizzie Gold’s [...]
Energy Medicine Yoga: Book Review by Lauren Walker Sounds True The principles of energy medicine have the ability to amplify the healing power of your yoga practice. As Lauren Walker, master teacher and expert student of energy medicine, describes in this easy-to-read yet profound guidebook, energy moves in patterns. Energy forms habits. Energy is affected [...]
One moment, Keith Mitchell is a linebacker on a football field, wearing a jersey emblazoned with the number 59. In the next moment, he’s taken the hardest hit of his career. One moment, he’s an alpha male gladiator playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars, in the next moment, he’s in a hospital bed with a spinal [...]
Heroes and Villains. Ingénues and Femme Fatales. Black and White. These are the sweeping archetypes painted by many classic Hollywood films. From Spaghetti Westerns, where valiant, platinum-clad cowboys face snarling, menacing nemeses to Film Noir, where courageous detectives in trench coats righteously rescue damsels from evil men in black, characters are often drawn in [...]
Pregnant and Alone The fantasy: Discovering you are pregnant, excitedly revealing the news to your husband and eventually your family and close friends, then having your loving spouse massage your feet and fulfill your midnight cravings. This is a scenario that populates many a woman’s dreams. There may even be a little romanticizing and forgetting [...]
Give Back Yoga (www.givebackyoga.org) is honored to be launching a new program that empowers public servants with powerful mindfulness practices for cultivating resilience to stress and peak performance on the job: Yoga for First Responders. The first offering of Yoga for First Responders is the Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Resiliency Training to Benefit First Responders and [...]
We’re currently working on the March issue of LA YOGA and one of the stories being included is yogis and their dogs. We’d love to hear from you! This is a call for Submission of photos of any of the following: You and your dog practicing yoga together. Your dog practicing yoga. Super cute dog [...]