Kirtan Master Jai Uttal Speaks About Music, Love and Addiction From the banjo picking of Appalachian influences to Brazilian rhythm and classical Indian cadences, Jai Uttal’s release Thunder Love is a foot-stomping, hand-clapping ode to love and longing in all its forms. Amidst a busy touring schedule, Jai Uttal paused to talk to LA YOGA [...]
Hot Nude Yoga Inspires Sweaty Self-Acceptance “Nudity is Mandatory.” It’s not the usual tagline for a Yoga class. But for Hot Nude Yoga, as popularized by Aaron Star, skin is part of the practice. I had seen ads for his Hot Nude Yoga, and never quite knew what to make of it. Looking [...]
Yoga instructor Dennis Daniels theatricality is part of everything he does so it comes as no surprise that show business is in his blood. “I saw my older sister twirling when I was two and I said, ‘I can do that’,” he says now. And he did, learning baton twirling and dance from [...]
A Calmer Venice Amidst all of the crazy, grimy, funky street life of Venice Beach, studio owner Yonnus Becker has created a peaceful sanctuary for all types to practice centering themselves so that they may radiate from within. One step into STUDIO SURYA YOGA and you are transformed by its serene simplicity [...]
Pico Iyer's father was a longtime friend and colleague of the Dalai Lama and Iyer, himself, has been close to the Dalai Lama since childhood. They have traveled together extensively and his latest book, The Open Road, about the Dalai Lama, has just been released in paperback. Over the past year, with the Summer Olympics [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation We are at a crucial transition period on our planet Earth. We have grown in numbers, technology and interconnectedness. The result is that we affect each other. We affect each other more than we can even imagine; just as we affect the environment that has sustained us for millennia. The news is full [...]
Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy What is Yoga Therapy? by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) sponsored their third annual Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) in Los Angeles, March 5 - 8. The weekend featured a historic three-day meeting of the organization’s Council of Schools, where more than [...]
In Recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April a number of LA-based conscious companies are coming together to raise funds with yogitoes® founder Susan Nichols. Nichols is reaching out to the community with the intention of growing a small grassroots campaign into a global campaign, much as the PINK campaign has served for breast [...]
Animal Spirit Representations of Kundalini Energy Kundalini is a very powerful and transformational energy located at the base of the spine at a space within the last three vertebrae of the tailbone or coccyx that extends to the perineum. Kundalini is a natural birthright for all people and can be sought and nurtured with a [...]
Chant-4-Change Sets The Nation’s Capital Alight January 20, 2009. It was a day that will not soon be forgotten: Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Only one day earlier, on Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some four hundred yogis, yoginis, and those with a general taste for the [...]